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Choosing a Diagnostic Provider name
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
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