"PeterJ" wrote : No, there is not other solution that I have been able to find. (In one of my apps I had the same problem - I needed to be able to tell if various app servers were running and I used a similar solution with similar caveats; though my apps were web apps.) Isn't that a feature which should be put on the todo list for the next release? It seems to be easy to implement. Thomas View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4144327#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...