Excellent!

One quick question to Werner: why did you decide to use Velocity
rather than other template engines? Specifically, is there a reason to
not use Terence Parr's StringTemplate engine?

 - Godmar

On Feb 4, 2008 5:57 PM, Werner Guttmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear users
>
> I am very pleased to announce that Castor 1.2 has just been made
> available and can be downloaded from the Codehaus at
> http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.2/.
>
> This release is a feature release with a couple of non-trivial
> changes/enhancements in selected areas (mainly XML code generation,
> support for Java 5) we'd like to bring to your attention:
>
> - Castor XML code generator now (optionally) uses Velocity as template
> engine.
> - New binaries packaging: XML schema support has been moved to a
> separate (and new) JAR.
> - Native Java 5 code generation has been improved (mainly for enumerations).
> - The usage of XML parsers has been completely refactored, incl. the
> run-time dependencies.
> - A new Maven archetype has been created to ease bug reporting.
>
> In addition, a lot of work has been done to prepare for a first
> (partial) alpha release of the new JAXB support for Castor XML. More on
> this in a separate email later on.
>
> As always, for details about features added and bugs fixed, please have
> a look at the release notes at
> http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
>
> For information about future releases, please have a look at the project
> road map (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR), and please report any
> regression issues at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR.
>
> Regards
> Werner Guttmann
> Castor, committer
>
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