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| $Id$ |
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| Commons Digester Package |
| Version 2.1 |
| Release Notes |
| |
| |
| INTRODUCTION |
| ============ |
| |
| This is a minor release with new features. New projects are encouraged to |
| use this release of digester. There is no urgency for existing projects to |
| upgrade; Digester 2.0 has proven to be a stable release. |
| |
| IMPORTANT NOTES |
| ================ |
| |
| BREAKING CHANGES: |
| |
| * This release eliminates the Apache Ant build support. Apache Maven 2 is |
| required to build this release of Digester; |
| |
| * The project structure has been moved to the default Apache Maven |
| archetype structure; |
| |
| * Tests have been migrated from JUnit 3.X to JUnit 4.X. |
| |
| OTHER IMPORTANT CHANGES: |
| |
| * The project documentation is no more present in the Javadoc but rather |
| in the generated Digester site, under the menu 'Users Guide'. |
| |
| DEPENDENCIES |
| ============= |
| |
| Digester 2.1 users should upgrade to the recommended dependency set below |
| where possible. |
| |
| The Recommended Dependency Set for Digester 2.1 is: |
| Digester 2.1 + Logging 1.1.1 + BeanUtils 1.8.3 |
| |
| It is also possible to use Logging 1.0.x or BeanUtils 1.7.0 instead. |
| |
| NEW FEATURES |
| ============= |
| |
| * JAVA5 ANNOTATIONS SUPPORT |
| Added a new package 'annotations' that provides for Java5 Annotations |
| meta-data based definition of rules for Digester. |
| This improves maintainability of both Java code and XML documents, as |
| rules are now defined in POJOs and generating Digester parsers at |
| runtime, avoiding manual updates. |
| |
| BUGS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE |
| =========================== |
| |
| * none. |
| |
| IMPROVEMENTS OVER PREVIOUS RELEASE |
| =================================== |
| |
| * none. |
| |
| DEPRECATIONS |
| ============ |
| |
| * none. |
| |
| OTHER NOTES |
| ============ |
| |
| * This is the first Digester release that provides an Apache Maven 2 build only. |
| The Apache Maven 1 and Apache Ant builds have been removed. |
