Name: rl10414			Date: 02/08/2002



   The JNDI API provides a generic way to access names across multiple
   naming systems.  Due in large part to this generality, there is little
   in the way of support for performing syntactic manipulations that
   depend on idiosyncrasies of the underlying naming systems.  The
   manipulation of LDAP-style names is particularly common, and is
   particularly difficult without such support.  Methods will be added to
   the javax.naming.ldap package to assist developers with the escaping
   of name components while composing LDAP names, and the unescaping of
   name components while decomposing them.


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