Simple webapp that loads the Jmx remote connector. You need to add mx4j-remote.jar to your common loader or use JDK1.5. Any other JMX implementation that supports javax.remote should work as well. The directory structure is a bit different from manager and the other webapps in catalina. I'm using eclipse, set up to use separate output dirs and autocompile. The output dir is set to WEB-INF/classes, and I have a symlink to the jmxremote dir in the sources - so basically there is no need to run ant/manually compile, just save the file and reload the app. MISSING: user/password, SSL, custom RMI server address - can be easily added using servlet params ( and should be added if this ever gets included in the distro )