MBeans not appearing in Tomcat

Hi,

I have tried to follow the instructions of Chapter 20 (section 20.2) where I have created a simple class (below) and tried to pass it to the MBeanExporter. I want my MBean to be exposed Tomcat's MBeanServer, so as instructed in Section 20.2.1, since an MBeanServer already exists I only need to specify the exporter.

When I start up the application, in the logs I see no exceptions and I see these lines, which seem to indicate that it is doing something JMX related:

23-Jan-2009 20:42:03 org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter afterPropertiesSet
INFO: Registering beans for JMX exposure on startup
23-Jan-2009 20:42:03 org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter registerBeanInstance
INFO: Located managed bean 'bean:name=testMgmt1': registering with JMX server as MBean [bean:name=testMgmt1]

However, when I start JConsole and attach to the Tomcat Bootstrap process, I only find the default MBean hierarchy (JMImplementation, com.sun.management, java.lang and java.util.logging). I couldnt find my MBean or any Spring related bean anywhere. Am I doing something completely wrong?

Environment: Win XP SP2, Tomcat 6.0.18, JDK 1.6.0_07, Spring 2.5.5

Spring Application Context:

Code:

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<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter" lazy-init="false">
        <property name="beans">
          <map>
            <entry key="bean:name=testMgmt1" value-ref="testMgmt"/>
          </map>
        </property>
      </bean>

    <bean id="testMgmt" class="com.test.management.TestMgmtMBean">
    </bean>

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MBean Interface:

Code:

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public interface ITestMgmtMBean
{
  public String greet();
}

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The actual class to be exposed:

Code:

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public class TestMgmtMBean implements ITestMgmtMBean
{
  public TestMgmtMBean()
  {
  }

  public String greet()
  {
    return "Hello!";
  }
}

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Just a small clarification on the above.

I noticed that when I specify the JMX management port using -D and attach to it using the IP address and port I see my MBean and also the tomcat MBeans.

Any idea why the process I am attaching to locally to the only MBeanServer I see (the tomcat Bootstrap loader) doesnt show my MBeans? Why is this different than what I see when I connect to the MBeanServer remotely?

thanks.