This may not exactly be what you are looking for. Starting Java 5, there's a tool which Sun provides for listing the instrumented HotSpot Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) on the target system. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jps.html. But this becomes tricky if there are multiple java processes running, in which case you wont be able to identify which pid belongs to the JBoss instance. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4126918#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...