Hi , I am looking to find if a Jboss appserver is up and alive by using any ping service.Is there any Tomcat service or other way to do this using MBean ? I can write some ping utility but I wanted to know if there is an existing API point.

For example in Weblogic we can do
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T3ServicesDef t3_services = T3Services.getT3Services();
String sent = "Okay";
String read = null;

read = t3_services.admin().ping( sent.getBytes() );
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Thanks,
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Do a resource look up against that server. you able to get the context then the server is running otherwise not .

-arun