Application status monitoring in websphere

Question

is there a way to interact with websphere 6.1 from a servlet to check if an application is running ? If so, is such transaction too resource-consuming operation to do it let's say before an "index" page is loaded ?.

The java.net.URL approach is simpler but discarded.

Thanks

Answer 1

you can use the mbean/jmx interface: search for this infocenter topic in your release: tjmx_updating_app.html