This is fine. You do not need JMX - I only brought it up because remoting 2 had MBeans and I thought jbm would still. It doesn't matter - you expose your management however you want. SNMP, your own custom management interface, whatever. Its the plugin developer that needs to connect to your jbm management interface, if you do it your own way, just have the plugin connect to it in "your way". For example, put your jbm management client libraries in the plugin jar and it can connect to it however it wants. It does not have to be JMX, forget I even mentioned it :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4130815#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...