You're in luck in that a JBoss utility class for simplifying dealing with JMX happens to be in a jar that JBC depends on. So, assuming your cache was somehow created and registered in MBeanServer 'server' under ObjectName 'name':

TreeCacheMBean cache = (TreeCacheMBean) org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.create(TreeCacheMBean.class, name.getCanonicalName(), server);

// Only do this if whatever bound your cache in JMX didn't start it!!!
cache.startService();

cache.put("/a/b/c", map);

I don't know why you guys suggest that class, and not the standard one:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/management/MBeanServerInvocationHandler.html

If you have an MBean server mbs containing an MBean with ObjectName name, and if the MBean's management interface is described by the Java interface Intf, you can construct a proxy for the MBean like this:

 Intf proxy = (Intf)
 MBeanServerInvocationHandler.newProxyInstance(mbs,
 name,
 Intf.class,
 false);


Suppose, for example, Intf looks like this:

 public interface Intf {
 public String getSomeAttribute();
 public void setSomeAttribute(String value);
 public void someOperation(String param1, int param2);
 }

Because I looked for a standard one in the JDK 5 Javadoc for 10 mins and didn't find one, and that was my time budget for responding to the post. :-)

Thanks for pointing it out.