7.2   Code Generation Benefits with AgenPro & SNMP4J-Agent

The following benefits are specific to the code generation for SNMP4J-Agent:

• Automatically generates a SNMP agent from MIB modules.

• Transparently provides SNMPv1/v2c/v3 functionality.

• Ensures correct implementation of multiple indices, table ordering, row status, storage type and other SNMPv2-TC textual conventions, variable constraints, access rules, and notifications.

• MIB changes can be easily applied to an existing agent implementa­tion. The agent is simply regenerated and recompiled. Existing instru­mentation code is preserved.

• No need for special (non SMI) tags in the MIB files. Thus, any SMI conform MIB can be used directly for code generation. The configura­tion can be entirely stored in project files.

• AgenPro provides full Maven integration through its Maven Plugin.