al for the <A HREF="../../../com/sleepycat/db/Database.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.db"><CODE>Database</CODE></A> and <A HREF="../../../com/sleepycat/db/Cursor.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.db"><CODE>Cursor</CODE></A> methods
are based on key/data pairs. Both key and data items are represented by
DatabaseEntry objects.  Key and data byte arrays may refer to arrays of zero
length up to arrays of essentially unlimited length.
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The DatabaseEntry class provides simple access to an underlying obj