Are com.sun.management.jmxremote properties standard?

Question

I searched quickly through the most recent specs for JSR-3 (JMX 1.x) and JSR-160 (JMX Remote API) as well as the J2SE 5.0 new features descriptions, but could not find any mention of the jmxremote flags that you set in order to enable the out-of-the-box management agent for local or remote access to the JVM via JMX, e.g.
com.sun.management.jmxremote
com.sun.management.jmxremote.port
com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl
com.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate
Some JMX documentation is needed for the application I'm working on, and I need to know if setting these flags will work on all JVMs supporting J2SE 5.0 or Java SE 6, or if it is only guaranteed to work with Sun's implementations (JVMs).
Some web searches indicate that the properties are in use with recent version of IBM JVMs and BEA's JRockit as well, but I'd like to have it confirmed to what extent these flags are standard (e.g. if they may be considered de facto standard properties). Is there an official document defining these properties and saying which settings they are valid in?
Thanks!

Answer 1

The properties are not part of any formal standard, but, as you have noticed, any JVM you are likely to use will support them. So they are de facto but not de jure standard.
If you are very concerned about standards, it is always possible to replace the use of these properties with code in your application that uses only standard APIs. See <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/management/agent.html#gdfvv>.
Regards,
�amonn McManus