This example demonstrates the following aspects of the JMX support available with Spring Integration: 1. JMX Attribute Polling Channel 2. JMX Operation Invoking Channel Adapter StopWatch is a Managed Bean. It is bootstraped and deployed using annotation support (@Component, @ManagedResource) and component scanning functionality provided by Spring JMX. Internally StopWatch simply runs a task that increments the value of its 'seconds' attribute by 1 every second. JMX Attribute Polling Channel Adapter simply polls a managed attribute 'Seconds' of the StopWatch MBean identified by the 'org.springframework.integration.samples.jmx:type=StopWatch,name=stopWatch' name and sends its value to a 'seconds' channel. The interesting this is that 'seconds' channel is a publish-subscribe-channel and has two subscribers; - Stdout Channel Adapter which prints the value of the polled attribute to the console; - Filter which essentially waits till payload value is 10; Once the payload value is 10 filter sends the Message to a 'reset' channel which is represented as JMX Operation Invoking Channel Adapter which simply invokes 'reset' operation on the same StopWatch MBean resetting 'Seconds' attribute value back to 1 and the process repeats. To run JMX Adapter sample simple execute JmxAdapterDemoTest You will see the output similar to this which will loop for ~ 20 sec: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 . . .