To ensure consistency when choosing Diagnostic Provider
names to use with your components, you should consider the guidelines
that follow.
Diagnostic Provider name guidelines:
- Names must be unique within a Java™ Virtual
Machine (JVM). One Diagnostic Provider name goes uniquely with one
Diagnostic Provider ID within a server.
- If necessary, names can contain a dynamic element to help with
uniqueness. Of course, the dynamic element should have meaning to
the administrator.
- Although not a hard limit, the static part of names should be
16 characters or less.
- The static part of names must follow the class name convention.
Start with a capital letter, no spaces, and capitalize each word in
the name.
- The static part of names must end with DP.
- Valid names contain a static part only, or a static part followed
by a dash (-), followed by a dynamic part. Some valid examples:
- ConnMgrDP-instance_specific_stuff
- WebContainerDP
- AdvisorDP
- NodeAgentDP