While there appears to some documentation on how to expose JMX through various firewall and tunneling schemes, I sort of want the opposite. I want to ensure that JMX is only ac
Can't help with the sun way of doing it. Even after jmx adapters started coming with the jdk (6 i think?) I kept using mx4j for the least-effort adapter setup. It is trivial to start up an mx4j http adapter on 127.0.0.1 or an internal-only interface. Then SOP was to ssh in with port forwards or use scripts with wget commands.
http://mx4j.sourceforge.net/