diff --git a/src/zabbix_java/src/com/zabbix/gateway/JMXItemChecker.java b/src/zabbix_java/src/com/zabbix/gateway/JMXItemChecker.java
index 7e02bd040b3..fd6261f5c10 100644
--- a/src/zabbix_java/src/com/zabbix/gateway/JMXItemChecker.java
+++ b/src/zabbix_java/src/com/zabbix/gateway/JMXItemChecker.java
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ import org.json.*;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+// DIMBUG
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
 class JMXItemChecker extends ItemChecker
 {
 	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(JMXItemChecker.class);
@@ -85,18 +88,26 @@ class JMXItemChecker extends ItemChecker
 			// e. g. the second "rmi" in service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://
 			String[] parts = url.getURLPath().split(":", 2);
 
-			if (0 != parts.length)
+			logger.warn("DIMBUG parsing '" + url.getURLPath() + "', got " + parts.length + " parts: " + Arrays.toString(parts));
+
+			if (0 != parts.length && !parts[0].equals(""))
 			{
+				logger.warn("DIMBUG   parsing '" + parts[0] + "'");
+
 				parts = parts[0].split("/", 0);
 
-				if (0 != parts.length)
+				logger.warn("DIMBUG   got " + parts.length + " parts: " + Arrays.toString(parts));
+
+				if (0 != parts.length && !parts[parts.length - 1].equals(""))
 				{
-					String rmiProtocol = parts[parts.length - 1];
+					String serviceProvider = parts[parts.length - 1];
+
+					logger.warn("DIMBUG     got serviceProvider " + serviceProvider);
 
-					if (!rmiProtocol.equals("rmi"))
+					if (!serviceProvider.equals("rmi"))
 					{
 						throw new ZabbixException("unsupported JNDI service provider, \"%s\"",
-								rmiProtocol);
+								serviceProvider);
 					}
 				}
 			}