Author: simonetripodi
Date: Sat Apr 2 23:45:39 2011
New Revision: 1088184
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1088184&view=rev
Log:
added latest changes for 0.5 release
Modified:
commons/proper/discovery/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
Modified: commons/proper/discovery/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/discovery/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt?rev=1088184&r1=1088183&r2=1088184&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/discovery/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (original)
+++ commons/proper/discovery/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Sat Apr 2 23:45:39 2011
@@ -2,102 +2,39 @@ $Id$
Commons Discovery Package
- Version 0.4
+ Version 0.5
Release Notes
INTRODUCTION
============
-This is a minor bugfix and maintenance release. A few small features have been
added.
+This is an APIs update and maintenance release.
New projects are encouraged to use this release of discovery.
-The previous release of Commons Discovery was 0.2. The 0.3 release failed to
happen,
-though an SVN tag was created. Thus a version number of 0.4 is being used for
this
-release.
-
IMPORTANT NOTES
===============
-* The commons project has migrated to the Subversion version control system
- (previously, CVS was used). Please see the commons
- website for details (http://commons.apache.org).
-
-* This release is done under the Apache Public License version 2.0; the
- previous release was under the APL 1.1. All files have been updated with
- the new license terms (including many files formerly missing license text).
+
+BREAKING CHANGES:
+
+ * The minimum JDK requirement is now JDK 1.5. The provided binaries will not
+ work on lower JDKs. The source has been updated to leverage Generics and
+ other JDK 1.5 features where possible, and requires JDK 1.5 to compile.
Dependencies
=============
-Commons Discovery depends on Commons Logging. It is built against version
1.0.4.
+Commons Discovery depends on Commons Logging. It is built against version
1.1.1.
NEW FEATURES
=============
-* maven build process improved
-* documentation moved from raw html format to xdoc format
- (best-practices.html, adc-guidelines.html)
-
-FILES CHANGED
-=============
-* tools/ManagedProperties.java
- --> fix NullPointerException in setProperty method.
- --> added logging facilities to the class; debug output can now be
- enabled if desired.
- --> Hide SecurityException in getParent(ClassLoader)
- --> Uses new JDKTools.getSystemProperty(String)
-
-* log/SimpleLog.java
- --> if exception occurs on System.getProperty, use a default instead
- of throwing an exception.
-
-* ResourceNameIterator.java
- --> javadoc improvements only
-
-* resource/names/DiscoverNamesInManagedProperties.java
- resource/names/DiscoverNamesInFile.java
- -->Generalize qualification of resource/file-names by prefix/suffix;
- add new constructors that take prefix and suffix strings
- for the resource to be located.
-
-* resource/names/DiscoverServiceNames.java
- -->Generalize qualification of resource/file-names by prefix/suffix.
-
-* resource/ResourceDiscoverImpl.java
- -->Defer creation of ClassLoaders until we need them, and create a
- useful default [non-null].
-
-* resource/DiscoverResources:
- --> fix to compile under JDK1.5 (don't use reserved word "enum")
-
-* jdk/JDKHooks:
- --> New getSystemProperty method added.
-
-* jdk/JDK12Hooks
- --> AXIS-1227:
- Added a try/catch for RuntimeExceptions in JDK12Hooks to avoid
- NullPointerExceptions from JBoss' UnifiedClassLoader. Reloading
- the Axis webapp after a redepoy of service classes then allows
- things to work normally.
- --> made class public (formerly, was package-scope only)
- In newer JVM/compilers, runtime complains when we try to invoke
- setLog on a non-public class.
- --> AXIS-2145:
- Checks that it has the security permission to create a new
- classloader.
- --> New getSystemProperty method added.
-
-* jdk/JDK11Hooks
- --> made class public (formerly, was package-scope only)
- In newer JVM/compilers, runtime complains when we try to invoke
- setLog on a non-public class.
- --> New getSystemProperty method added.
+* Discovery APIs use Java5 Generics.
BUGS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE
=========================
JIRA Issues Addressed
---------------------
-* AXIS-1227 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-1227)
-* AXIS-2145 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2145)
+* DISCOVERY-12 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DISCOVERY-12)
DEPRECATIONS
