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At least, Oracle Thin > Oracle OCI .
It's complicated, NodeProvider holds nodes in a TreeSet with alphabetic order or by given comparator. Need to change NP API to allow get order from layer.
Checked in 7.2: the drivers list in the drivers list is sorted and stays so, when renaming items. I checked the code in DriverListNodeProvider.java for 7.3 and a comparator is provided for the list - specifying case insensitive comparison of displayname as base for sorting.