A few references: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=103398 http://docs.jboss.com/jbossas/guides/j2eeguide/r2/en/html_single/#d0e2207 Also, look at the source code for twiddle, which can be found in the source download at ./console/src/main/org/jboss/console/twiddle/command. Of particular interest is the method Twiddle.createMBeanServerConnection which shows how to access the MBean server and the execute() method in each of the command classes, such as GetCommand. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046535#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...