Darran, that might be an option but I think we'll still need a web console since we sometimes need to do some management operations from systems that don't have a JConsole installed at that moment.
Thus we'd like to have a browser as the only requirement for that.
Additionally, you wrote
The first release to contain this will be JBoss AS 7.1.0.Final.
Can you give any information on when the final version will be published?