Use the Jolokia JVM Agent directly in your Maven Java project

I have a simple Java Maven project and want to use the JVM agent from Jolokia to get JMX values. It works when I manually load jolokia-jvm-1.1.5-agent.jar and add an absolute path to java arguments, for example -javaagent:/absolute/path/to/jolokia-jvm-1.1.5-agent.jar.

The maven ( ) dependencies are also listed as a Jolokia download pagejolokia-core . I wonder if I can include this directly in my Maven assembly without manually loading the JVM agent? How can I run my program using this javaagent?