This week's book giveaway is in the Cloud/Virtualization forum. We're giving away four copies of Cloud Application Architecture Patterns: Designing, Building, and Modernizing for the Cloud and have Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf and Joseph Yodor on-line! See this thread for details.
I suppose you are referring to java.lang.management. This provides interface for monitoring and management of JVM. Certainly, this is out of scope of the current book and the book obviously does not cover it.