JMX attribute naming conventions

Question

I've noticed that the convention for JMX MBeans appears to deviate from the standard Java Bean property model in that the names for attributes will traditionally start with a capital letter, i.e. PascalCase.

To explain this a bit more clearly, I'll take an example from the JDK (chopped down a bit for clarity) :

public interface MemoryMXBean {
    public int getObjectPendingFinalizationCount();

    public MemoryUsage getHeapMemoryUsage();

    public MemoryUsage getNonHeapMemoryUsage();

    public boolean isVerbose();

    public void setVerbose(boolean value);

}

And the Memory MXBean exposed has attributes V erbose, H eapMemoryUsage etc.. This is also the case for every MBean exposed, and you receive the same behaviour when defining your own MBeans.

Does anyone know the origins of this convention / implementation detail? I glanced through the JMX spec and only found a passing referencing to case sensitivity of attribute names, with no clear convention mentioned.