"timfox" wrote : I don't want to end up in a situation where we have to start an MBean server just so we can expose our POJOs For the standalone case, the simple way is to register our POJOs as MBeans on the JVM platform MBeanServer, enable a remote access to it and use a generic JMX console (e.g. jconsole). 0 dependencies other than Java 5, everything is already included. Generic JMX consoles are not as good as specialized ones but they can be sufficient if our MBeans are meaningful enough. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4130813#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...