Services Tutorial

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Is there such a thing?

I have an applciation running that spins off little engines to pick up processes. I gather that those engines would be considered as services to a server. i have a jmx (xml) plugin in place that detects my application just find, but i need some information on how to extend it to pick up those proccess it spins off as services,. The JMX plugin tutorial mentions some stuff briefly but it is really not enough information.