Well, I've made some progress. Basically, you follow all the steps to get Tomcat to load JMX support, essentially editing your catalina.sh.
Then you connect to Tomcat's JMX MBean server, choose a domain, choose an MBean, choose an Operation, and execute it. The following code, mostly pilfered, does all this: JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL("service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:6666/jmxrmi"); Map map = new HashMap(); String[] credentials = new String[] { "monitorRole" , "QED" }; map.put("jmx.remote.credentials", credentials); JMXConnector conn = JMXConnectorFactory.connect(url, map); MBeanServerConnection mbsc = conn.getMBeanServerConnection(); ObjectName objName = new ObjectName("Catalina:host=www.myapp.com,type=Host"); MBeanInfo mbeanInfo = mbsc.getMBeanInfo(objName); Object[] params = new Object[0]; String[] signatures = new String[0]; mbsc.invoke(objName, action, params, signatures); conn.close(); NOTES ON BOLD TEXT : 1. 6666 is the port I told Tomcat to listen on in my catalina.sh file. The params are the following: CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS ""-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6666 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false" 2. The host, www.myapp.com, is the name of my virtual host in my server.xml file: <Server> <Service> <Engine> <Host name="www.myapp.com" ...> If you want a list of operations exposed by an MBean just use the following code: MBeanOperationInfo[] ops = mbeanInfo.getOperations(); for (int i = 0; i < ops.length; i++) { MBeanOperationInfo op = ops[i]; System.out.println("op: " + op.getName() + " , desc: " + op.getDescription()); } The MBean I have chosen, "Catalina:host=www.myapp.com,type=Host", has start(), stop(), init() and a couple other operations (methods). All is ok when I stop an already started Host. But when I then call start() or init(), it does nothing, throws no Exception. What could I be doing wrong? I posted this question on the Java JMX forum as well ... Many thanks! Bob -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Programmatically-stop-start-context-%28webapp%29-tf3975317.html#a11322642 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]