public Object accept(ICOSVisitor visitor) throws COSVisitorException 
{
        return visitor.visitFromName(this);
}

visitor pattern double dispatch method.

 public static synchronized  void clearResources() 
{
         // Clear them all
         nameMap.clear();
}

Not usually needed except if resources need to be reclaimed in a ong running process. Patch provided by flester@GMail.com incorporated 5/23/08, Danielwilson@users.SourceForge.net

 public int compareTo(COSName other) 
{
        return this.name.compareTo( other.name );
}

{@inheritDoc}

 public boolean equals(Object o) 
{
        boolean retval = this == o;
        if( !retval && o instanceof COSName )
        {
            COSName other = (COSName)o;
            retval = name == other.name || name.equals( other.name );
        }
        return retval;
}

{@inheritDoc}

 public String getName() 
{
        return name;
}

This will get the name of this COSName object.

 public static final COSName getPDFName(String aName) 
{
        COSName name = null;
        if( aName != null )
        {
            // Is it a common COSName ??
            name = commonNameMap.get( aName );
            if( name == null )
            {
                // It seems to be a document specific COSName
                name = nameMap.get( aName );
                if( name == null )
                {
                    //name is added to the synchronized map in the constructor
                    name = new COSName( aName, false );
                }
            }
        }
        return name;
}

This will get a COSName object with that name.

 public int hashCode() 
{
        return hashCode;
}

{@inheritDoc}

 public String toString() 
{
        return "COSName{" + name + "}";
}

{@inheritDoc}

 public  void writePDF(OutputStream output) throws IOException 
{
        output.write(NAME_PREFIX);
        byte[] bytes = getName().getBytes();
        for (int i = 0; i <  bytes.length;i++)
        {
            int current = ((bytes[i]+256)%256);
            if(current < = 32 || current  >= 127 ||
               current == '(' ||
               current == ')' ||
               current == '[' ||
               current == ']' ||
               current == '/' ||
               current == '%' ||
               current == '< ' ||
               current == ' >' ||
               current == NAME_ESCAPE[0] )
            {
                output.write(NAME_ESCAPE);
                output.write(COSHEXTable.TABLE[current]);
            }
            else
            {
                output.write(current);
            }
        }
}

This will output this string as a PDF object.