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When adding a new server instance to the server registry it should be assigned a unique key that would allow to differentiate it from the others. Currently the jsr-88 deployment URI of the server is used which causes identification conflicts when there is need to add two different instances of a particular server type, which are set up to listen on the same port. For example there can be two absolutely different instances of WebLogic whose URIs will be deployer:WebLogic:http://localhost:7001 JBoss in its default configuration has three instances which are set up to port 8080. To resolve the conflict, the plugin developer has to introduce an additional level of abstraction to make all instances URIs look different for j2eeserver, while supplying a valid URI for the server jsr-88 classes. Here the suggestion is that a more abstract identification method should be used, so that these conflicts never occur.
TM -> 4.2.
This is not a real DEFECT -> TASK.
TM 5.0 -> TBD