rdonkin 2004/07/04 08:31:17 Modified: betwixt RELEASE-NOTES.txt Log: Added in changes from release branch Revision Changes Path 1.3 +9 -38 jakarta-commons/betwixt/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Index: RELEASE-NOTES.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons/betwixt/RELEASE-NOTES.txt,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- RELEASE-NOTES.txt 29 Jan 2003 18:32:02 -0000 1.2 +++ RELEASE-NOTES.txt 4 Jul 2004 15:31:17 -0000 1.3 @@ -1,45 +1,16 @@ $Id$ - Commons Betwixt Package - Version 1.0-Alpha-1 - Release Notes + Commons Betwixt Package + Version 0.5 + Release Notes INTRODUCTION: Betwixt provides a flexible way to map beans into XML - and vice versa. This is the -first betwixt release. - -There's quite a lot of work to be done before Betwixt is ready for a full -release - but it's already used by other projects. This alpha will give a -versioned release for these projects to depend on. A word of warning - though -the betwixt developers take backwards compatible very seriously, it's likely that -some parts of the internal API are going to have to change - and some of these -changes may break compatibility. - -NEW FEATURES: - -Everything :) - -But here's some features you might like to take a look at: - -* Betwixt can write beans to character streams or as SAX events -* Betwixt builds on Digester (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester.html) - to allow xml to be read (using SAX) and mapping into beans in a compatible way -* Betwixt supports powerful pluggable general strategies but also allows mappings - to be customized at the bean level. - - -BUG FIXES: - -KNOWN LIMITATIONS: -* This release of betwixt does not validate the element and attribute names - specified in .betwixt files to ensure that they will produce well formed xml. - Please take care to ensure that the names you choose for you elements and - attributes will result in well formed xml. -* Betwixt is not usable for swing components, unless you write a wrapper class - around the Swing component. The XMLEncoder that is used in JDK 1.4.x does a - better job in this, by analyzing what is needed based on what clone() does and - custom processing for swing components. If you really need this and are writing - wrappers around swing components, please contribute it to the betwixt project. - +first full Betwixt release. +This release consolidates the codebase released in Alpha-1.0. It is stable and mature +but the design is limited. Newer, more sophisticated designs are being introduced +(in later releses) but they are unlikely to be binary compatible. This API exposed +in this release is therefore not sufficiently stable enough to warrent a 1.0 version +number.
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