Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

NameParser

Synopsis

This interface is for parsing names from a hierarchical namespace. A NameParser knows the syntactic information, such as left-to-right orientation and the name separator, needed to parse names.

public interface NameParser {
// Public Instance Methods
   public abstract javax.naming.Name parse(
        String name) throws NamingException;  
}

Returned By

javax.naming.Context.getNameParser(), InitialContext.getNameParser()