I'm on a vista machine. I've started tomcat 5.5.27 with these options:
CATALINA_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9003 \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false"
When I connect via jconsole and added the following service url
service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:9003/jmxrmi
it would not connect. Any ideas ?