This paper presents a component-based architecture for autonomous repair management in distributed systems, and a prototype implementation of this architecture, called JADE, which provides repair management for J2EE application server clusters. The JADE architecture features three major elements, which we believe to be of wide relevance for the construction of autonomic distributed systems: (1) a dynamically configurable, component-based structure that exploits the reflective features of the FRACTAL component model; (2) an explicit and configurable feedback control loop structure, that manifests the relationship between the managed system and repair management functions; (3) an original replication structure for the management subsystem itself, which makes it fault-tolerant and self-healing.