13.2. Remoting MBeans

Although the original JMX specification referred to remote management of applications through MBeans, it didn’t define the actual remoting protocol or API. Consequently, it fell to JMX vendors to define their own, often proprietary, remoting solutions for JMX.

In response to the need for a standard for remote JMX, the Java Community Process produced JSR-160, the Java Management Extensions Remote API Specification. This specification defines a standard for JMX remoting, which at a minimum requires an RMI binding and optionally the JMX Messaging Protocol (JMXMP).