NonStop Server for Java 5.0 Programmer's Reference

The InetAddress class provides a new API to allow testing for the reachability of a
host. This feature provides a ping-like capability in Java.
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Cookie support is improved. Applications and web containers can provide Cookie
management by implementing the new CookieHandler API.
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Proxy server configuration is improved. Configuration can be dynamic and controllable
by web containers and applications through the ProxySelector API, which can also
handle failures to connect to the proxy.
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A new framework provides a way for protocol handlers to access a file caching
mechanism implemented by the platform or by a third party.
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The specification of the URL class now mandates a minimum set of URL protocol
handlers that are guaranteed to be present in J2SE. The handlers are http, https, file,
jar and ftp.
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Security
Security enhancements provide better support for security tokens, support for more security
standards (SASL, OCSP, TSP), improvements for scalability Secure Socket Layer engine
(SSLEngine class) and performance, and many enhancements in the crypto and Java GSS
areas.
Internationalization
Character handling is now based on version 4.0 of the Unicode standard. This new basis
affects the Character and String classes in the java.lang package, the collation
and bidirectional text analysis functionality in the java.text package, character
classes in the java.util.regex package, and many other parts of the J2SE.
Support for supplementary characters has been specified by the JSR 204 expert group and
implemented throughout the J2SE. See the article Supplementary Characters in the Java
Platform, the Java Specification Request 204, and the Character class documentation
for more information.
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The DecimalFormat class is enhanced to format and parse BigDecimal and
BigInteger values without loss of precision. Formatting of such values is enhanced
automatically. You need to enable parsing into BigDecimal by using the
setParseBigDecimal method.
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Vietnamese is now supported in all locale sensitive functionality in the java.util and
java.text packages. See the Supported Locales document for complete information
on supported locales and writing systems.
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