protected JConsolePlugin()

Constructor.

public final void setContext(JConsoleContext context)

Sets the JConsoleContext object representing the connection to an application. This method will be called only once after the plugin is created and before the getTabs() is called. The given context can be in any connection state when this method is called.

public final JConsoleContext getContext()

Returns the JConsoleContext object representing the connection to an application. This method may return null if it is called before the context is initialized.

public abstract Map<String,JPanel> getTabs()

Returns the tabs to be added in JConsole window.

The returned map contains one entry for each tab to be added in the tabbed pane in a JConsole window with the tab name as the key and the JPanel object as the value. This method returns an empty map if no tab is added by this plugin. This method will be called from the Event Dispatch Thread once at the new connection time.

public abstract SwingWorker<?,?> newSwingWorker()

Returns a SwingWorker to perform the GUI update for this plugin at the same interval as JConsole updates the GUI.

JConsole schedules the GUI update at an interval specified for a connection. This method will be called at every update to obtain a SwingWorker for each plugin.

JConsole will invoke the execute() method to schedule the returned SwingWorker for execution if:

• the SwingWorker object has not been executed (i.e. the SwingWorker.getState() method returns PENDING state); and
• the SwingWorker object returned in the previous update has completed the task if it was not null (i.e. the SwingWorker.isDone method returns true).

Otherwise, SwingWorker object will not be scheduled to work.

A plugin can schedule its own GUI update and this method will return null.

public void dispose()

Dispose this plugin. This method is called by JConsole to inform that this plugin will be discarded and that it should free any resources that it has allocated. The JConsoleContext can be in any connection state when this method is called.

public final void addContextPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener)

Adds a PropertyChangeListener to the JConsoleContext object for this plugin. This method is a convenient method for this plugin to register a listener when the JConsoleContext object may or may not be available.

For example, a plugin constructor can call this method to register a listener to listen to the connectionState property changes and the listener will be added to the JConsoleContext object when it is available.

public final void removeContextPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener)

Removes a PropertyChangeListener from the listener list of the JConsoleContext object for this plugin. If listener was never added, no exception is thrown and no action is taken.