RELEASE-NOTES.txt

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                           Commons Chain Package
                                Version 1.1
                               Release Notes

INTRODUCTION:
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The changes-report.html provides details of changes in each release:
o http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/chain/changes-report.html

For more information on Jakarta Commons Chain, see
o http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/chain/

NEW FEATURES:
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o CHAIN-28: Provide a Map of Cookies in the WebContext.
o CHAIN-14: Add new DispatchLookupCommand.
o CHAIN-26: Add new test for LookupCommand.
o CHAIN-20: Add new DispatchCommand.
o CHAIN-19: Provide a mechanism for encoding catalog and command in a single 
  string. 


CHANGES:
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o CatalogBase - add constructor which takes an already built map of 
  commands, for easier use in dependency-injection environments. 
o Expose catalogFactory so that subclasses can get at it. 
o CHAIN-3: Decouple CatalogFactory lookup from LookupAction.
o ChainResources - factor out the comma-delimited parsing into a 
  separate method, fix the whitespace-skipping bugs in it. 
o Add support for using LookupCommand in a way which does not pass 
  through the result from the looked up command.  

      
BUG REPORTS ADDRESSED:
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o CHAIN-30: ServletSessionScopeMap always forces a Session to be Created. 
o CHAIN-31: Portlet Map implementations' entry Set should contain Map.Entry 
  elements.
o CHAIN-29: Remove Static Log instances - see here. Issue: . 
o CHAIN-11: Modify DispatchCommand so that it will compile using JDK 1.3 
  (remove JDK 1.4 method). 
o DispatchCommand - fix bug in handling InvocationTargetException. 
o CHAIN-9: Maven build updates. 
o CHAIN-25: DispatchCommand should unwrap InvocationTargetException.
o CHAIN-12: Make ContextBase live up to the Serializable contract 
  that it inherits by virtue of extending HashMap.
o CHAIN-6: CopyCommand does not work unless setValue is called.
o CHAIN-1: Code fragment from 'cookbook' is incorrect.