Difficult to correlate results to hardening guide

The list of results is a very good start.
Unfortunately it appears that not ALL the hardening guide items are covered by the free compliance checker.
Also it would be a lot easier if the results included references to the specific hardening item involved, it appears that one must do a lot of reading and skipping around to find the relevant items within the hardening guide spreadsheet...
Also export to spreadsheet or csv would be a good idea...
Thank you, Tom

I have a Brazilian Keyboard and I have the same
problem.
Looks like Sun doesn't want to fix this, it's a old
bug.According to the bug database (link posted above), the bug for Danish keyboards has been fixed in Mustang (Java 1.6, release next year(?)). Maybe your Brazilian keyboard will work too. You can download a beta version of Mustang and try it for yourself:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/download.jsp
Or try the latest Mustang build:
https://mustang.dev.java.net/

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Dear gurus, I already get good help for other problem. I hope to follow guidelines this time.
In our firm we have to deal with the GUID. Now, the GUID come in 3 formats (see the other posting
of the GUID in this newsgroup). I have the several GUIDS as below
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159F25C0-35E8-45CF-A95C-FF4F3365B330
0485FA87-A2FF-445E-965333B6980EC176
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{159F25C0-35E8-45CF-A95C-FF4F3365B330}
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Jehangir Khan wrote:
Dear gurus, I already get good help for other problem. I hope to follow guidelines this time.
In our firm we have to deal with the GUID. Now, the GUID come in 3 formats (see the other posting
of the GUID in this newsgroup).Copy the relevant information into this thread, or at least post a link.
I have the several GUIDS as belowSorry, I don't understand. What is the difference between the 3 formats? All the strings you posted seem to have the same format.
>
with mydata as (
select '77DB966B620D4FEBB9959D016E0BD590' as guid from dual union
select '159F25C035E845CFA95CFF4F3365B330' from dual union
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desired result
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