To begin, I'm going to use Groovy to access the relevant MBeanServerConnection via the Attach API. This is done as shown in the following Groovy code (next two code listings) in which the method ...

// attachToVirtualMachine.groovy // // Provide an MBeanServerConnection acquired via the Attach API. import javax.management.MBeanServerConnection import javax.management.remote.JMXConnector ...