NonStop Server for Java 5.1 Programmer's Reference

Wrapper or Development Toolkit routines (spt….) supplied with T1248.
NOTE: Any user-developed code that makes such POSIX threads calls must change.
Directories of Binary Files Moved
If your NonStop Server for Java programs have references to bin/oss/posix_threads in Pathway
configuration files or elsewhere, you must change them to use the NonStop Server for Java 5.1
installation bin directory.
In NonStop Server for Java 3.1.x or earlier versions, the bin and jre/bin directories contained a shell
script that ran the real executable that was located in bin/oss/posix_threads. In the
NonStop Server for Java 5.1 version, the bin directory contains the real executable, no shell script
wrapper, and no bin/oss/posix_threads directory. The jre/bin directory contains the
executables in the bin directory.
Character Handling
With NonStop Server for Java 5.1 , character handling is 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 Java Specification Request (JSR) 204 expert group and implemented
throughout the J2SE. See the article Supplementary Characters in the Java Platform and the Character
class documentation for more information.
BigDecimalFormat Class
In JDK 5.0, the DecimalFormat class was enhanced to format and parse BigDecimal and
BigInteger values without loss of precision. The formatting of these values is enhanced automatically
To enable parsing into BigDecimal, you need to use the setParseBigDecimal method.