[JBoss-user] so I've created an MBean...how to I access it?

[Liu, K. A. (Kenneth)** C. ** <ke...@lu...>]

So I created a ServiceMBean for my system, and now I am ready to create a
client to it.  This particular MBean initializes and starts an engine that I
am using and holds on to the instance of it.  I would now like to access
this instance.

What I've done is created a getInstance() on the MBean's interface and
implementation which returns an instance of the engine.

Is it preferred to access an MBean by using the management API to invoke the
method, or is it better to go some other route (perhaps by placing the
engine in JNDI).

I am having some difficulty understanding whether the JMX APIs should really
be preferred only for "management" code, or if it should be used for general
application development (i.e. servlets and EJBs or POJOs).

Ken