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A friend of mine, Vladimir Vivien, has done something really cool and very useful with JMX and Groovy. He has created a Groovy JMX Builder. For those of you who are not familiar with Java Management Extensions (JMX), it is a core J2SE 5.0 feature that allows direct access to your exposed classes at runtime for monitoring and management. For those of you not familiar with Groovy, it is a dynamic scripting language that runs on the JVM and it supports Domain-Specific Languages which allow you to write more succinct code to do more with less. So if you put Groovy and JMX together you get monitoring and management of your code at runtime minus the overhead of learning all of the implementation details of the technology, like JMX. If you are writing Groovy code, you should go check it out.