Can't start JMXConnectorServer

Question

I would like to connect to my application via JMX remotely, so I've created following configuration in main method:

MBeanServer mbs = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();
JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL("service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:7890/jmxrmi");
Map<String, Object> envConf = new HashMap<>();
//My custom authenticator
envConf.put(JMXConnectorServer.AUTHENTICATOR, new MyAuthenticator(jmxUsername, jmxPassword));
JMXConnectorServer cs = JMXConnectorServerFactory.newJMXConnectorServer(url, envConf, mbs);
cs.start();

Here is how I start my application:

java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote 
     -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7890
     -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false 
     -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false 
     Main

But it seems that something is missing and I get following exception:

Cannot bind to URL [rmi://localhost:7890/jmxrmi]: javax.naming.NoPermissionException [Root exception is java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: 
    java.rmi.AccessException: Cannot modify this registry]
java.io.IOException: Cannot bind to URL [rmi://localhost:7890/jmxrmi]: javax.naming.NoPermissionException [Root exception is java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: 
    java.rmi.AccessException: Cannot modify this registry]
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.newIOException(RMIConnectorServer.java:827)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.start(RMIConnectorServer.java:432)
    at test.jms.Main.start(JmxModule.java:35)
Caused by: javax.naming.NoPermissionException [Root exception is java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: 
    java.rmi.AccessException: Cannot modify this registry]
    at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.bind(RegistryContext.java:147)
    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.url.GenericURLContext.bind(GenericURLContext.java:228)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.bind(InitialContext.java:425)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.bind(RMIConnectorServer.java:644)
    at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.start(RMIConnectorServer.java:427)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: 
    java.rmi.AccessException: Cannot modify this registry
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.oldDispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:420)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:268)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:196)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:568)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:826)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$254(TCPTransport.java:683)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler$$Lambda$13/8098086.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:682)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
    at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:276)
    at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:253)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:379)
    at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.bind(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.bind(RegistryContext.java:141)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.rmi.AccessException: Cannot modify this registry
    at sun.management.jmxremote.SingleEntryRegistry.bind(SingleEntryRegistry.java:76)
    at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Skel.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.oldDispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:410)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:268)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:196)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:568)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:826)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$254(TCPTransport.java:683)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler$$Lambda$13/8098086.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:682)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Could you please point me where am I wrong?

Answer 1

The problem was that I didn't have RMI registry running, so simply running this command in console:

rmiregistry

or adding this line of code before start of server:

LocateRegistry.createRegistry(1099);

solves an issue.

Answer 2

By the launching the application using java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7890 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false Main

you are starting the default RMI JMX connector on port 7890. And you are trying to start the custom connector on the same port and it fails.

If you are going to use your own connector instance you can safely omit all the -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.* properties.