Starting a Java agent after program start

Question

Is it possible to insert a javaagent after virtual machine start from within the same VM?

Lets say for example we have an agent in a jar myagent.jar with the appropr

Answer 1

You should be able to do it in Java 6, see the package documentation chapter "Starting Agents After VM Startup"

edit: Maybe it was possible in Java 5 already and just the javadocs didn't mention it that explicitly