I'll just keep writing replies here. ;) Another thing that occurs to me: instead of invoking over the JMX bus to get some freeform String attribute, maybe instead we should grab the jboss-bootstrap-spi-as JBossASServerConfig from the ObjectName, then perform typesafe operations upon it. Like: JBossASServerConfig config = mbeanServer.get(ObjectName); | URL jbossHome = config.getJBossHome(); ...but I'll leave that impl detail up to you guys. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4231762#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...