Right now the descriptions for attributes in the java.lang.management MBeans contain no meaningful information. It would be very useful to let the JMX attributes be self documenting. That would allow general JMX clients such as Mission Control to present relevant information to the users.

To see this, simply start JConsole, hook up to a JVM, browse for an attribute and look at the information available in the MBeanAttributeInfo. The Description is always the same as Name for all j.l.m. attributes.