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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.