This paper explains the problem of introducing management instrumentation in distributed application in a way that makes this instrumentation transparent to their developers. The paper proposes different approaches for the achievement of this transparency and describes how they were validated in two scenarios involving the management of distributed applications for e-commerce environments. Keywords Application Management, transparent instrumentation, CORBA interceptors, JMX, EJB.
Víctor A. Villagrá, Jorge E. L&oacut