Nested MBeans in JConsole

[edalquist]

I've declared a bunch of Spring beans to be exported via the 'beans' Map of the MBeanExporter.

The keys are all declared like:

ProjectName:name=SpringBeanName

Which gives me a tree view of the MBeans like:

ProjectName
    SpringBeanName

Is there a way to get a nicer tree view of the exported beans? Say I wanted:

ProjectName
    ComponentGroupName
        SpringBeanName

Where both ProjectName and ComponentGroupName are folders in the MBean tree.

[Dave Syer]

I think jconsole displays beans in a hierarchy according to their object name key properties (in order with the lowest level last), e.g.

ProjectName:group=ComponentGroupName,name=SpringBeanName

This behaviour is specific to the jconsole, so if you are using another console in production it might not choose to show the view in the same way.