In answer to a similar question before, people said that since the GUI wants an exact match and the server wants a "first n characters" match, the GUI should do additional filtering on the results from the server.
However, there is an additional minor complication with "exact" match because at least as the database is originally constructed, it is space delimited, so you will not find
you will find
So even an "exact" match should allow for trailing white space.
And by the way, for those people who ask Sun, many of them eventually get back a reply saying that the database is actually supposed to be space delemited, not null-character delimited. Some people said they had gotten this reply, so I asked Sun too (I wasn't sure if it was legit to quote the javaranch forum

), and after a couple of weeks, they told me it was s pace delimited too.
[ May 31, 2005: Message edited by: Lara McCarver ]