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| <h1>The Jakarta Commons <em>Lang</em> Component</h1> |
| $Id$<br /> |
| <a href="#Introduction">[Introduction]</a> |
| <a href="#Dependencies">[Dependencies]</a> |
| <a href="#Release Info">[Release Info]</a> |
| <a href="#Known Issues">[Known Issues]</a> |
| <a href="#Action Items">[Action Items]</a> |
| <a href="#Committers">[Committers]</a> |
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| <a name="Introduction"></a> |
| <h3>1. INTRODUCTION</h3> |
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| <p>The <em>Lang</em> Component contains a set of Java classes that provide |
| a basic set of common utility code on top of the standard Java classes. |
| The following principal classes are included:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>Main package</strong> - A package for the manipulation of basic Java classes |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>ArrayUtils</strong> - Helper for manipulating arrays.</li> |
| <li><strong>BitField</strong> - A class to assist with manipulating bits.</li> |
| <li><strong>BooleanUtils</strong> - Helper for boolean and java.lang.Boolean.</li> |
| <li><strong>CharRange</strong> - A range of characters.</li> |
| <li><strong>CharSetUtils</strong> - Methods for dealing with CharSets, which are sets of characters such as [a-z] and [abcdez].</li> |
| <li><strong>ClassUtils</strong> - Helper for manipulating java.lang.Class objects.</li> |
| <li><strong>ObjectUtils</strong> - Helper for java.lang.Object.</li> |
| <li><strong>RandomStringUtils</strong> - Helper for creating randomised Strings.</li> |
| <li><strong>SerializationUtils</strong> - Helper for serializing Objects.</li> |
| <li><strong>StringEscapeUtils</strong> - Utility for escaping and unescaping Strings.</li> |
| <li><strong>StringUtils</strong> - Helper for java.lang.String.</li> |
| <li><strong>SystemUtils</strong> - Utility class defining the Java system properties.</li> |
| <li><strong>WordUtils</strong> - Utility for working with words.</li> |
| <li><strong>Validate</strong> - A class to simplify method argument validation.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
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| <li><strong>Builder package</strong> - A package for the creation of equals, hashCode, compareTo and toString methods. |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>ToStringBuilder</strong> - Helper for building toString methods.</li> |
| <li><strong>EqualsBuilder</strong> - Helper for building equals methods.</li> |
| <li><strong>HashCodeBuilder</strong> - Helper for building hashCode methods.</li> |
| <li><strong>CompareToBuilder</strong> - Helper for building compareTo methods.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
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| <li><strong>Enum package</strong> - A package for the creation of enumerated types. |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>EnumUtils</strong> - Helper for manipulating enumerated types.</li> |
| <li><strong>Enum</strong> - Abstract superclass for enumerated types to extend.</li> |
| <li><strong>ValuedEnum</strong> - Superclass for enumerated types with an integer constant.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
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| <li><strong>Exception package</strong> - A package for the creation and manipulation of nested exceptions.</li> |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>ExceptionUtils</strong> - Helper for manipulating exceptions.</li> |
| <li><strong>NestableException</strong> - An exception that supports a nested exception.</li> |
| <li><strong>NestedRuntimeException</strong> - An exception that supports a nested exception.</li> |
| <li><strong>NestedError</strong> - An exception that supports a nested exception.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
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| <li><strong>Math package</strong> - A package for simple business (not scientific) maths classes. |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>Fraction</strong> - A fraction.</li> |
| <li><strong>JVMRandom</strong> - An implementation of Random that does its best to appear to sit on top of java.lang.Math's private Random class.</li> |
| <li><strong>NumberUtils</strong> - Helper for java.lang.Number and its subclasses.</li> |
| <li><strong>Range</strong> - A range of numbers, of which there are classes representing Numbers, ints, doubles, longs and floats.</li> |
| <li><strong>RandomUtils</strong> - A utility class for working with random numbers.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
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| <li><strong>Time package</strong> - A package for date/time related utilities. |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>DateFormatUtils</strong> - Aids in formatting Dates.</li> |
| <li><strong>DateUtils</strong> - Aids in manipulating Dates.</li> |
| <!--li><strong>DurationFormatUtils</strong> - Formats durations, represented by milliseconds.</li--> |
| <li><strong>FastDateFormat</strong> - Optimised version of SimpleDateFormat.</li> |
| <li><strong>StopWatch</strong> - Records durations, represented by milliseconds.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
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| </ul> |
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| <a name="Dependencies"></a> |
| <h3>2. DEPENDENCIES</h3> |
| |
| <p>The <em>Lang</em> component is dependent upon the following external |
| components for development and use:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se">Java Development Kit</a> |
| (Version 1.2 or later)</li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.junit.org">JUnit Testing Framework</a> |
| (Version 3.7 or later) - for unit tests only, not required |
| for deployment</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a name="Release Info"></a> |
| <h3>3. RELEASE INFO</h3> |
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| <p>Current Release: |
| <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/lang/">Version 2.0</a> |
| </p> |
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| <p>Planned Next Release: |
| Version 2.1 |
| </p> |
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| <a name="Known Issues"></a> |
| <h3>4. KNOWN ISSUES</h3> |
| <p> |
| <ul> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
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| <a name="Action Items"></a> |
| <h3>5. ACTION ITEMS</h3> |
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| <p>Want to help? Here's some "to do" items the team has identified as possibly being in scope for Lang. |
| Note that all are still under discussion, so please mail the list before actioning.</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>DateRange/Duration class.</li> |
| <li>DurationFormatUtils to be completed and made public.</li> |
| <li>CloneUtils - utility class to enable cloning via various different mechanisms.</li> |
| <li>StringUtils.reverseSplit(String, String delim, int count). Should basically be a 'reverseArray(reverseDelimitedString(split(txt, delim, count)))'.</li> |
| <li>CharUtils - Utilities to work on a char[] in the same way as a String.</li> |
| <li>AStringBuffer - A StringBuffer implementation with additional methods from StringUtils.</li> |
| <li>O(n) - Document all algorithm-implementing methods with the order. Possibly with an O(n) on the end of each parameterm or with an @order tag.</li> |
| <li>Money and Currency. Maybe separate project.</li> |
| <li>Code examples - Document as many static methods as possible with example usage.</li> |
| <li>Faster StringTokeniser - Is Java's slow?</li> |
| <li>Mutable Number classes - like Integer/Double but mutable.</li> |
| <li>StringUtilsNPE - A StringUtils that doesn't like nulls.</li> |
| <li>CharSetUtils - refactor methods onto CharSet class.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a name="Committers"></a> |
| <h3>6. COMMITTERS</h3> |
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| <p>The following individuals are the primary developers and maintainers of this |
| component. Developers who plan to use <em>Lang</em> in their own |
| projects are encouraged to collaborate on the future development of this |
| component to ensure that it continues to meet a variety of needs.</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="mailto:bayard@apache.org">Henri Yandell</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:dlr@finemaltcoding.com">Daniel Rall</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:scolebourne@joda.org">Stephen Colebourne</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:steven@caswell.name">Steven Caswell</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:rdonkin@apache.org">Robert Burrell Donkin</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:ggregory@seagullsw.com">Gary Gregory</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:phil@steitz.com">Phil Steitz</a></li> |
| <li><a href="mailto:fredrik@apache.org">Fredrik Westermarck</a></li> |
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