This JIRA is based on feedback we received after the Andiamo BOF at JBoss World 2010:

>> The means to mask passwords is different for
>> the newer jboss-beans.xml files from the older mbean
>> configurations. Would much rather have a one and done solution
>> instead of managing two different solutions.

With the AS 7 unified domain configuration this should fall out naturally, but we need to guard that no subsystems introduce non-standard ways of doing this.