You might want to look into JSR 160 (JMX Remoting). From the JSR 160 home page (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=160): anonymous wrote : | The JMX specification (JSR 3) currently provides the means to create Java based management agents, through standardized techniques for instrumentation, and standardized agent services. But it does not standardize the means to access these agents remotely. | | This JSR will provide one mechanism for remote access by building on the JMX notion ofconnectors. A connector provides a remote client API for a JMX-based agent that is very similar to the local client API. This means that remote clients can call the familiarMBeanServer operations and can register for notifications using the NotificationListener interface. | | This JSR will define what the remote client API looks like and how it behaves. It will also define standard transport protocols that an implementation of the JSR must support, so that different implementations will interoperate. There are multiple implementations, including a JBoss implementation in the SVN repository http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/jmx-remoting. There is a brief discussion about it on the wiki page http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Remoting. Of course, I suppose you could roll your own by wrapping an org.jboss.remoting.ServerInvocationHandler around an MBeanServer. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4071867#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...