You could run a twiddle command to check the value of an attribute of an mbean, such as: twiddle get "jboss.system:type=Server" Started This is not a perfect solution because this command will yield "Started=true" as soon as JMX and JNDI are running, but HTTP and thus web applications are usually not available until a few seconds later. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4142967#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...