I am using JBoss 4.0.3sp1 on Windows XP and Linux. I have two EARs that both have their own copy of a JAR file. Code in the JAR file wants to register an MBean for use with JMX. The problem is when the code running in the second EAR tries to register the MBean name it can not as the name is already registered by code running in the first EAR.

I could change the MBean name used by the two instances of the JAR code to include something to make the names unique, but is there some other way to have the MBean names in multiple EARs not conflict with each other. I doubt there is, but I'm asking just to be sure.