Commons ======= Releases --------
October has seen many new releases from the Jakarta Commons project. * Commons Lang 1.0 was released on October 4th, a set of very generic components for use in any Java project. http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-lang/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt * Commons Collections 2.1 was released on the 21st of October. Buffers and Decorators were added, along with IteratorUtils and ComaparatorUtils. http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-collections/v2.1/RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.html * Commons BeanUtils 1.5 was released two days later. All bugs in Bugzilla were cleared out and a BeanComparator was added. http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-beanutils/v1.5/RELEASE-NOTES.txt * Commons Validator had its first release, at 1.0, on the first of November. Technically not October news, but we're so excited we don't care. Validator comes out of the Struts project and is designed to make validating fields of data easier. http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Articles -------- The Digester project was the subject of an article at OnJava. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/23/digester.html The Lang project was the subject of an article at Builder. http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml?id=u00320021017yan01.htm&page=1&vf=tt Gossip ------ There is much talk over a new Clazz project, hiding away in the Commons-Sandbox. Stephen Colebourne and Dmitri Plotnikov have been leading a set of long threads on this. Aspects of this may see the BeanUtils project transferring some of its low-level code over to Lang to assist in Java Reflection. The Lang project will be consuming some aspects of the Patterns [located in the sandbox] project's classes. The FileUpload project has moved from the sandbox to the main Commons repository. So expect a release to sneak onto the horizon in the next few months here. October was also home to a lot of talk on a new Apache-level project known as the Apache-Commons. Inspired by you know who, it seeks to provide reusable components with a level of language agnosticism. Figuring out how the old Jakarta Commons works with the new Apache Commons will probably take up time over the next half a year. +++++++ How does that look Rob?? Hen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
