Adrian,
Thanks for answering. I thought this was the user not the dev list. Sorry for cluttering, but since I've started might as well keep going. Here is the output of the ObjectName.
Eric

20:04:52,428 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG - jboss.management.single:J2EEServer=Single,j2eeType=J2EEApplication,name=A0.ear

p.s. Any chance that I can get this question moved to the user list :->

This does work and I did have a comma in the earObjectName both times.

Set set = server.queryNames( earObjectName, null );
for( Iterator it = set.iterator(); it.hasNext(); )
{
foundEar = true;
break;
}