ADF JMX Datacontrol in FMW 11g PS3

One of the new Fusion MiddleWare PS3 ADF features is the JMX Datac Control. Back in late 2007 I already blogged about it and now 3 years later, Oracle finally released this feature in Patch Set 3. With the JMX Data Control you can manage your MBeans, read its attributes or invoke its operations. When an attribute gives back an MBean reference then ADF will look up this reference and returns this object. ( This is not the case in the System MBean browser of the Enterprise Manager application. )
I don't think this feature will be used in enduser applications, but can be very useful in support applications so the administrator can control the FMW servers. In this blogpost I will show you how you can use the JMX Data Control to give you a WebLogic Domain overview with its servers and application deployments.

First you need to create a JMX connection.

 Provide the WebLogic connection information

 After the JMX Connection creation, you can add the JMX Data Control to your application

 Select the JMX Connection

Select the MBeans, ( The EM System MBean browser can be handy to find the right MBean ), I will use the domain MBean located in com.bea.Domain

In the Data Controls window you can see my Domain MBean with its attributes and accessors.

 First I drag my Domain MBean to the page and select the attributes I want to show.

I also want to show you the WebLogic servers as child of the Domain ( in table layout ), the same for application deployments. So drag the Servers accessor on the page and select the attributes you want to show.

 With this as result.

Be aware, the JMX Data Control does not  know every Java Object, so if you want to use this on the SOA Suite MBeans it will give you some errors. It can't find the XML presentation of these SOA Java Object.