This entrypoint is retained as a user convenience: if invoked it
lists all the known BC4J system properties, their default values,
and their ownership.
as the name suggests, removes random irregularities
from exception messages - different versions of JDBC drivers
have slightly different line terminating strategies...sigh
Tnis converts all line separators to \r\n
and always returms \r\n at the end of a message
TODO: retval should be a StringBuffer for efficiency
Returns true if the given row has an attribute value for the discriminator attribute that this
node type is interested in, such that that attribute value matches this type's discriminator
attribute value.