SAS Datastep and Java object

[Jaime]

This is a general datastep questions and I am not sure which section is goes under.
As of 9.2 you are able to create a reference to a java class, created by the user, in the datastep.
I was wondering of any practical uses for this? Will it replace the hash object?
Has anyone used this succesfully?

[nar_sas]

This question should probably be posted to this discussion forum instead:

http://support.sas.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=31 SAS Macro Facility, Data Step and SAS Language Elements

They can probably help.