JNDI 1.1.1 Release Notes
			8/27/98


This is the 1.1.1 version of JNDI. Please send feedback to the JNDI
team at jndi@java.sun.com, or to the public mailing list at
jndi-interest@java.sun.com.

JNDI 1.1.1 is a bug-fix release. There are no API changes.  Client
applications and service providers written to JNDI 1.1 will work
without modification with JNDI 1.1.1.


CHANGES SINCE 1.1 (1/27/98)

Bug Fixes:

o  CompoundName.hashCode() matches CompoundName.equals() such that
   two names that tests "true" in equals() have the same hash code.

o  Added BasicAttribute.hashCode() to match BasicAttribute.equals()
   such that two attributes that are equal have the same hash code.

o  BasicAttribute.equals() checks equality of two arrays by checking
   their elements instead of using Object.equals(). Methods that
   depend on the notion of equality are similarly affected (hashCode(), 
   contains(), add(), remove()).

o  BasicAttributes.getIDs() no longer converts IDs to lowercase.

o  Methods in InitialDirContext throw NotContextException (instead of
   NoInitialContextException) on attempts to invoke a DirContext method
   on a non-DirContext.

o  Fixed problem in InitialContext in which modifications made to
   the environment were not always propogated to subsequently-created
   child contexts.

o  Removed synchronized modifier from NamingManager.getObjectInstance() 
   and NamingManager.getInitialContext() methods.  An inner block
   is synchronized instead to reduce the size of the critical section.

o  Fixed problem in NamingManager.getURLContext() so that it doesn't
   throw IllegalArgumentException when ':' is encountered in a name
   when used with Java 1.1.x systems.

o  Fixed problem in ContinuationDirContext that caused a null pointer
   exception to be thrown instead of CannotProceedException.

o  Updated format of manifest file so that the jar works with JDK1.2beta4.


Documentation Updates:

The javadoc has been clarified and expanded upon in many places based
on your feedback since the 1.1 release.  It also has a new format
(generated using javadoc from JDK1.2) and includes an overview and
package summaries. See http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/javadoc/.


RELEASE INFORMATION

This 1.1.1 release consists of material generic to JNDI:


lib/jndi.jar
	class files for JNDI classes

examples/api		
	Simple examples using JNDI to access naming and	directory services

examples/spi		
	Simple example of service provider

The classes in this release have been generated using JDK1.1.2.

See individual release notes for service providers for information on
using these JNDI classes with individual service providers.

Some Java application environments fail to properly load multiple jar
files.  One workaround is to extract the class files from each of the
jar files using either the jar tool, or a third-party utility for
managing zip files.  For some releases of the JDK, the jar tool may
need to be run twice to extract the contents of a jar file.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The JNDI API and SPI specifications, the updated javadoc, a tutorial,
and a demo browser are available at the Java Software Web site
(http://java.sun.com/jndi/).