Can jconsole data be retrieved from the command line?

Question

I am currently using jconsole to monitor performance metrics of my Java application and would like to script this data acquisition

Answer 1

jconsole just provides a wrapper around the JMX MBeans that are in the platform MBeanServer.

You can write a program to connect to your VM using the Attach API which would then query the MBeans.

Or you can expose the platform MBeanServer over RMI and query the MBeans that way.

See the java.lang.management package for more info