Using JConsole to monitor and manage JVMs

In-built monitoring and management support:
The J2SE 5.0 release provides built-in comprehensive monitoring and management support. It not only defines the management interfaces for the Java virtual machine, but also provides out-of-the-box remote monitoring and management on the Java platform and of applications that are running on it.
Also the JDK 5.0 includes the Java Monitoring and Management Console (JConsole) tool. It uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java virtual machine to provide information on performance and resource consumption of applications running on the Java platform using Java Management Extension (JMX) technology.

What is JConsole?
It's a JMX-compliant graphical tool for monitoring a Java virtual machine. It can monitor both local and remote JVMs.

I tried monitoring both local & remote JVMs. Really it's a very useful tool that helps user know the memory used by their application & many other important things. It is useful for both, a developer & a tester.

I've started exploring more on this tool as it'll be very much helpful in our Projects which will make them more efficient. I'll regularly post my experiences regarding my future explorations. Keep visiting :)