Jolokia is a fresh way for accessing JMX MBeans remotely. It is different to JSR-160 connectors as it is an agent based approach which uses JSON over HTTP for its communication. Also, it provides new features for JMX remoting: Bulk requests allow for multiple JMX operations with a single remote server roundtrip, fine grained security mechanism for restricting JMX access on specific JMX operations, JSR-160 proxy mode and history tracking, to name only a few. Jolokia origins come from jmx4perl. More client bindings beside Perl already have been added and more are planned for the future.