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How to test JBoss server is started from external java application

how can i test from external java application that my server jboss is running ?
I've a JBoss (4.2.3) server and I want know from a stand-alone java application if that server i started or not.
Thanks!
EDIT
I don't have access to the jboss machine and the jmx console is disabled for safety reasons.

You can check inspecting the running processes if you have access to the machine where jboss is running.
If you don't have access to the machine, then you'll have to try to connect to it, checking if it's listening to the http port or if you can reach it via JMX, but then you can't be sure if it's really not running or if some firewall rule is blocking your request.

One of the possible solution if you are running on linux is to execute a shell command like
ps -ef | grep jboss >> somelog.txt
execute it using Runtime class using exec() method in Runtime and check the output of that command from your java program
Surely there might be some other better alternative , but this is just a simple thought

Analyze stand alone Java Application locally for threads

Respected Experts,
I have a stand alone java application and want to monitor the threads created by it. I am planning to use a tool like JConsole or JVisualVM. However, I am not able to connect these tools locally to my Java Application.
I am using Windows machine. JConsole and Java program are running locally. I have tried to run Java application with following JMV arguments with no success:
java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9999 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false LinkedListTest
When I try to connect using JConsole, my process id is greyed and following message appears:
Note: The management agent is not enabled on this process
I think I should be able to connect JConsole to a stand alone java application. Any thoughts what I am missing here
Thanks and Regards

Thanks for the inputs. I was able to solve the problem and the details are as follows:
As #Holger mentioned, both JConsole and JVisualVM can connect to the local Java Application running without any JMX arguments. The problem that I was facing was machine specific. I restarted the machine and deleted the following directory:
%TMP%\hsperfdata_User.Name
(I was not able to delete this directory without doing a restart)
Restarted JConsole/JVisualVM and was able to connect to local java processes using the process id.
In fact, the use of JVisualVM pointed me towards this fix. On start of JVisualVM, I got an error message stating something like local processes/applications can't be monitored. The message had a link to Troubleshooting guide. I am reproducing the relevant snippet:
Local Applications Cannot Be Monitored (Error Dialog On Startup)
Description: An error dialog saying that local applications cannot be monitored is shown >immediately after VisualVM startup. Locally running Java applications are displayed as Application> (pid ###).
Resolution: This can happen on Windows systems if the username contains capitalized letters. In >this case, username is UserName but the jvmstat directory created by JDK is >%TMP%\hsperfdata_username. To workaround the problem, exit all Java applications, delete the >%TMP%\hsperfdata_username directory and create new %TMP%\hsperfdata_UserName directory.
However, on my machine directory had the following format:
%TMP%\hsperfdata_User.Name
So, my recommendations are:
-check the name of the above mentioned directory for presence of camel case user name
-If not, follow the steps from the Trouble Shooting guide
-If the problem persists, delete the directory (may require machine reboot, as in my case)
-Restart JConsole/JVisualVM
Hopefully, the problem would be resolved.
Thanks and Regards

Monitor Java application with VisualVM

I have a few Java programs running on my EC2 instance. I want to profile them using VisualVM. they are not web applications that run on Jetty or Tomcat. I did go through the stuff mentioned here, but I dont know how to set up my VisualVM after I generate the jar files with those commands. Can some help me out?
Thanks

You normally attach VisualVM to the PID of the process you want to profile. If that's Jetty or Tomcat or some other Java EE app server, that means the PID of the app server. If not, it's the PID of the JVM that's running your app.
If you've already got a JVM installed on your EC2 instance, I'd recommend looking in the JVM /bin folder to see if jvisualvm.exe is already there. If it is, fire it up in a separate command shell and attach it the PID of your application.

What is Tomcat Running?

I'm trying to see if a WAR I just built is even running inside of Tomcat (7.0.19). I am deploying to a linux box and so my only two options are the Tomcat admin console (web app) or, hopefully, determining webapp status through the terminal.
I already know how to get in through the console web app; I am wondering if there is any way to see the status (ACTIVE/INACTIVE/TERMINATED, etc) of deployed web apps from the terminal.
Thanks in advance.

PSI-Probe is a great application for monitoring your applications deployed to a tomcat instance. It will tell you if an application is running or down. If the application is not deployed, it will simply not be in the list.

curl --user user:pass http://localhost:8080/manager/text/list
It prints
OK - Listed applications for virtual host localhost
/manager:running:0:manager
/docs:running:0:docs
/examples:running:0:examples
/host-manager:running:0:host-manager
/myapp:running:0:myapp
Your user needs the manager-script role. Documentation: Manager App HOW-TO, List_Currently_Deployed_Applications

You can probably do it using JMX.
Find appropriate MBean that shows this information on local tomcat using regular JConsole. If you want to connect JConsole to remote you will probably have some problems with firewall, so you have other solution.
Take command line JMX client and run it on the monitored host through SSH terminal. I used the following command line JMX client: cmdline-jmxclient-0.10.3.jar

wget http://<username>:<password>#<hostname>:<port>/manager/list -O - -q
(Not sure about Tomcat 7 though)

Weblogic, JVM and EAR

I'm planning to do a heap dump with jmap jdk1.5 tool on a production weblogic (10) instance.
Actually there are 3 EAR (perhaps more, don't really know i don't have access) deployed on this weblogic instance.
Someone told me "weblogic creates a JVM for each EAR"
Can someone confirm this?
With jmap i need the jvm pid as parameter to do the heap dump...
Since i have 3 EAR i guess i have 3 pid so i wonder how to know which pid correspond to which EAR JVM?

Nope - each Weblogic server (or any java process) runs in it's own JVM with it's own PID. So all your EARs will appear in the same heap dump.
If you have multiple Weblogic server instances running on the same machine, each will have a separate PID and a separate process

As #josek says, you'll have one JVM per WebLogic server, so if all your EARs are under the same WebLogic server you'l only have one pid to dump. But you may still have multiple servers - maybe an admin server and a managed server, maybe other unrelated instances - so if you just do something like ps -ef | grep java (I'm assuming this is on Unix?) you could see a lot of pids, even if you can filter it to your WebLogic's JDK_HOME.
One way to identify which pid belongs to a particular server is to go to the <domains>/servers/<your server>/tmp directory, and in there run fuser -f <your server>.lok. This will list the pids of all the processes related to that server, one of which will be the JVM java process. (May be others for JDBC etc.) One way to find just the java process (and I'm sure someone will point out another, better way!) is something like:
cd <domains>/servers/<your server>/tmp
ps -p "`fuser -f <your server>.lok 2>/dev/null`" | grep java
If each EAR is in its own server, I guess you'll have to look at config.xml to see which you need.