[KAFKA-78] add optional mx4j support to expose jmx over http

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Assignee: Chris Burroughs
• Reporter: Chris Burroughs
• Created: 31/Jul/11 16:09
• Updated: 06/Oct/11 05:12
• Resolved: 06/Oct/11 05:11

Description

In the fun world of operations and monitoring sometimes HTTP is a better choice than 'real' jmx for alerting. mx4j exposes jmx beans over HTTP (sadly with xml). Attached patch is a scala port of CASSANDRA-1068 that optionally loads mx4j if it is present on the classpath.