Does anyone know where the JRE gets its time zone info from? In the Sun JDK
1.4, there is a folder jre/lib/zi. Is this the public-domain tz database? If
so is there a way to find out what version of the db it is? Or a way to
access it? How does the JRE use these files?

I have created a class that extends ServletOutputStream.  Right now it
does not do anything but my plan is to use this to capture and
manipulate data (byte[] b) sent to the output stream for my own
devices.  The class is below:

Im trying to write a routine to replace the '?' in a String with values
supplied by the client.
ie
String myString = "Hello there, my first name is ? and my surname is