Added support for
configuration using resource files. See Chapter 6 of the JNDI API
document.
API-related
Changes
Added
NamingEnumeration.close() for cancelling or
terminating enumerations.
Added
ReferralException.getReferralContext(Hashtable env)
and ReferralException.retryReferral() to allow
creation and retry of referral context with different environment
properties.
Clarified how
context methods that accept Name argument should deal
with CompositeName and non CompositeName
arguments. Specifically, instances of CompositeName
are treated as composite name, while all others are treated as
compound name.
Added
Context.getNameInNamespace() for retrieving the full
name of a context within its own namespace.
Clarified
definition of the class factory location of a
Reference object. Specifically, the location is a
codebase, which consists of a list space-separated URLs.
Added support for
ordered multivalued attributes to Attribute and
BasicAttribute .
Added
BasicAttributes.equals() and
BasicAttributes.hashCode() .
Redefined semantics
of DirContext.getSchemaClassDefinition() so that it
returns a context that contains the DirContext objects
of class definitions, rather than returning one (arbitrary) class
definition.
Added protected
InitialContext / InitialDirContext
constructors to allow lazy initialization. Useful for subclass
implementations.
SPI-related
Changes
Added
StateFactory /
NamingManager.getStateToBind() , analogous to
ObjectFactory /
NamingManager.getObjectInstance() , for transforming
an object's state before the object is bound in the
naming/directory service.
Added interfaces
DirObjectFactory and DirStateFactory to
better support service providers that implement the
DirContext interface. Added
DirectoryManager.getObjectInstance() and
DirectoryManager.getStateToStore() to use these
interfaces.
Refined definition
of NamingManager.getObjectInstance() to not treat URL
strings specially. Instead, the URL should be wrapped inside a
Reference whose RefAddr type is
"URL".
Made
ResolveResult implement Serializable
.
Defined a special
form of Reference called a next naming system (nns)
reference for supporting "dynamic federation". This
reference has a RefAddr type of "nns" and a
content consisting of the resolved object.
Added the string
constant NamingManager.CPE which names a property set
by NamingManager.getContinuationContext() /
DirectoryManager.getContinuationContext() . The value
of this property is an instance of
CannotProceedException . This is useful to service
providers that implement federation by chaining the CPEs.
Defined a
convention for service providers to use when naming environment
properties. See Section 6.1.