There are several management interfaces available for Geronimo. Geronimo supports the standards-based JMX and JSR-77 management interfaces, which allows portable management tools to interact with Geronimo. However, both of those are somewhat generic and as a result not as easy to program to. In cases where portability is not a concern, such as writing management tools specifically for Geronimo, there is a third option available, the Geronimo management API.