Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Add-On Component Development Guide

Specifying the Name of an Attribute

To specify the name of an attribute, set the value element of the @Attribute annotation to a string that specifies the name. If you do not set this element, the name is derived from the name of the property as follows:

For example, if the getter method getNumberOfInstances is defined for the property NumberOfInstances to represent an attribute, the name of the attribute is number-of-instances.