General “ JMX clients” such as JConsole and VisualVM use this to provide information on detected deadlocks, but custom tools and scripts can be written to provide the same details.

January 31 — AdventNet has added support for enterprise tools and platforms to ManageEngine JMX Studio, an independent JMX (Java Management Extensions) implementation certified by Sun Microsystems.

Sun’s JConsole monitoring tool is included with the Java Developers Kit 5.0. It leverages the Java virtual machine’s comprehensive instrumentation to deliver real-time information on resource ...