Unlike a file system, which is a hierarchical arrangement of simple filenames, rad adopts the model used by JMX and maintains a flat namespace of structured names. An object's name consists of a mandatory reverse-dotted domain combined with a non-empty set of key-value pairs.
Two names are considered equal if they have the same domain and the same set of keys, and each key has been assigned the same value.
Some situations call for referring to groups of objects. In these contexts, a glob style pattern, or a regex style pattern should be used. For more information, see Sophisticated Searching.