J2SE 5.0 API brings you right to the abstract CookieHandler class but with no real implementation, no storage mechanism, no storage policy, and nothing to store. Jump ahead to Java SE 6, and the CookieManager class offers just such an implementation of CookieHandler. CookieStore is the storage mechanism, and CookiePolicy offers a policy for accepting or rejecting cookies. Lastly, HttpCookie is the object to store.

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