Domains

A domain is an abstract category that can be used to group MBeans arbitrarily. The MBean server lets you search easily for all MBeans with the same domain. For example, all connectivity MBeans in the minimal server could have been registered into a domain called Communications.

Since all object names must have a domain, the MBeans in an MBean server necessarily define at least one domain. When the domain name is not important, the MBean server provides a default domain name that you can use. By default, it is called the DefaultDomain, but you can specify a different default domain name when creating the MBean server from its factory.