The JMX technology defines standard connectors (known as JMX connectors) that enable the access to JMX agents from remote management applications.
A connector makes a JMX MBean server accessible to remote Java technology-based clients.
A connector consists of:
A connector server:
A connector client is responsible for establishing a connection with the connector server. A connector client will usually be in a different Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) from the connector server, and will often be running on a different machine.