Author: simonetripodi
Date: Sun Sep 12 19:46:45 2010
New Revision: 996378
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=996378&view=rev
Log:
Added advertisement on the new annotations stuff.
Modified:
commons/proper/digester/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
Modified: commons/proper/digester/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/digester/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml?rev=996378&r1=996377&r2=996378&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/digester/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml (original)
+++ commons/proper/digester/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml Sun Sep 12 19:46:45
2010
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ include:</p>
the same type of processing.</li>
</ul>
+<p>Starting from release 2.1, the Digester supports Java5 Annotations
definition
+of rules improving maintainability of both Java code and XML documents, since
+rules are now defined in POJOs and <code>Digester</code> parser instances can
be
+generated at run-time, avoiding manual updates.</p>
</section>
@@ -80,10 +84,16 @@ download the files.
<section name="Releases">
<subsection name="Digester 2.1 Release (September 2010)">
<p>
-Digester 2.1 is a minor release with new features. New projects are encouraged
to use this release
-of digester. There are breaking changes from Digester 2.0, see release notes
-in detail before choosing to upgrade. There is no urgency for existing
-projects to upgrade; Digester 2.0 has proven to be a stable release.
+Digester 2.1 is a minor release with new features, a new
<code>annotations</code> package
+adds facilities to configure the Digester using the Java5 language meta-data
annotations,
+allowing Digester instances creation introspecting the target POJOs, using a
provided set
+of annotations. New projects are encouraged to use this release of digester.
+<br/>
+There are breaking changes from Digester 2.0, see release notes in detail
before choosing
+to upgrade.
+<br/>
+There is no urgency for existing projects to upgrade; Digester 2.0 has proven
to be a
+stable release.
</p>
<p>
Digester 2.1 <b>requires a minimum of JDK 1.5</b>.
