Hey Andy, Welcome aboard, I hope you have lots of fun with ESME- and Scala!
Regarding JMX, one of the ideas of ESME is that text messages could be used as a control interface to different types of services. It would be great if we eat our own dog food and have a bot that executes JMX-related commands when sent to it in the form of a message. A fun part of ESME where it makes a difference from other messaging platforms is actions. You can take some time to research about actions from the wiki (http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ESME/Actions). There are a number of small things to do to get one started with actions, e.g. issue ESME-29 (Add new tags to Actions). Another related feature would be to create a message when someone has been added to an access pool (a functionality we are now implementing). Let us know what you're interested in and don't hesitate to ask if you have questions. Happy hacking, Vassil
