JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.

On the Java platform, the Java Management Extension or JMX is the monitoring and management framework. Sun has bundled JMX APIs in its distribution since JDK 5.