Issue

• I have a JMX-enabled bean which fails to initialize on JBoss. The bean is  configured using the Spring Framework MBeanExporter which uses the JBoss class MBeanServerLocator, method locateJBoss to find the JMX server,

  <bean id="mbeanServer" class="org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanServerLocator" factory-method="locateJBoss"/>
  <bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter" lazy-init="false">
   <property name="beans">
     <map>
       <entry key="bean:name=SomeService" value-ref="waitTimesService"/>
     </map>
   </property>
  

• During deployment the following error is encountered:

  ERROR [ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
   org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'exporter' 
   defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; 
   nested exception is org.springframework.beans.ConversionNotSupportedException: Failed to convert 
   property value of type 'org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl' to required type 'javax.management.MBeanServer' 
   for property 'server'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of 
   type [org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl] to required type [javax.management.MBeanServer] for property
   'server': no matching editors or conversion strategy found
  

• It would seem the locateJBoss method is not returning an instance of javax.management.MBeanServer.