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svn commit: r639882 - /commons/proper/lang/trunk/xdocs/article2_4.xml
Author: mbenson
Date: Fri Mar 21 15:05:30 2008
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<section name="What's new in 2.4?">
-<p>Commons Lang 2.4 is out, and the obvious question is: <i>"So what? What's changed?"</i>. </p>
-<p>Thus this article aims to briefly cover the changes and save you from having to dig into each JIRA
-issue to see what went on in the year of development between Lang 2.3 and 2.4. </p>
+<p>Commons Lang 2.4 is out, and the obvious question is: <i>"So what? What's changed?"</i>.</p>
+<p>Thus this article aims to briefly cover the changes and save you from having to dig into each JIRA
+issue to see what went on in the year of development between Lang 2.3 and 2.4.</p>
<section name="Deprecations">
-<p>First, let us start with a couple of deprecations. As you can see in the release notes, we chose
-to deprecate the <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/ObjectUtils.html#appendIdentityToString(java.lang.StringBuffer,%20java.lang.Object)"><code>ObjectUtils.appendIdentityToString(StringBuffer, Object)</code></a> method as its
-null handling did not match its design (see <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-360">LANG-360</a>
-for more details. Instead users should use <code>ObjectUtils.identityToString(StringBuffer, Object)</code>. </p>
+<p>First, let us start with a couple of deprecations. As you can see in the release notes, we chose
+to deprecate the <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/ObjectUtils.html#appendIdentityToString(java.lang.StringBuffer,%20java.lang.Object)"><code>ObjectUtils.appendIdentityToString(StringBuffer, Object)</code></a> method as its
+null handling did not match its design (see <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-360">LANG-360</a>
+for more details. Instead users should use <code>ObjectUtils.identityToString(StringBuffer, Object)</code>.</p>
-<p>We also deprecated <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.html#add(java.util.Date,%20int,%20int)"><code>DateUtils.add(java.util.Date, int, int)</code></a>. It should have been <code>private</code>
-from the beginning and please let us know if you actually use it. </p>
+<p>We also deprecated <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.html#add(java.util.Date,%20int,%20int)"><code>DateUtils.add(java.util.Date, int, int)</code></a>. It should have been <code>private</code>
+from the beginning and please let us know if you actually use it.</p>
</section>
<section name="The build">
-<p>Before we move on - a quick note on the build - we built 2.4 using Maven 2 and Java 1.4. We also tested that the Ant build passed the tests
-successfully under Java 1.3, and that the classes compiled under Java 1.2. As it's been so long, we stopped building a Java 1.1 compatible jar. Most importantly - it should be a drop in replacement for Lang 2.3, but we recommend testing first of course. Now... moving on. </p>
+<p>Before we move on - a quick note on the build - we built 2.4 using Maven 2 and Java 1.4. We also tested that the Ant build passed the tests
+successfully under Java 1.3, and that the classes compiled under Java 1.2. As it's been so long, we stopped building a Java 1.1 compatible jar. Most importantly - it should be a drop in replacement for Lang 2.3, but we recommend testing first of course. Now... moving on.</p>
</section>
<section name="New classes">
-<p>Three new classes were added, so let's cover those next. </p>
+<p>Three new classes were added, so let's cover those next.</p>
<p>Firstly, we added an <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/math/IEEE754rUtils.html"><code>IEEE754rUtils</code></a>
-class to the <code>org.apache.commons.lang.math</code> package.
-This candidate for ugly name of the month was needed to add <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754r#min_and_max">IEEE-754r</a>
-semantics for some of the <code>NumberUtils</code> methods. The relevant part of that
-IEEE specification in this case is the NaN handling for <code>min</code> and <code>max</code> methods, and
-you can read more about it in <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-381">LANG-381</a>.
+class to the <code>org.apache.commons.lang.math</code> package.
+This candidate for ugly name of the month was needed to add <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754r#min_and_max">IEEE-754r</a>
+semantics for some of the <code>NumberUtils</code> methods. The relevant part of that
+IEEE specification in this case is the NaN handling for <code>min</code> and <code>max</code> methods, and
+you can read more about it in <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-381">LANG-381</a>.
</p>
-<p>Second and third on our newcomers list are the <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/text/ExtendedMessageFormat.html"><code>ExtendedMessageFormat</code></a> class and its peer
+<p>Second and third on our newcomers list are the <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/text/ExtendedMessageFormat.html"><code>ExtendedMessageFormat</code></a> class and its peer
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/text/FormatFactory.html"><code>FormatFactory</code></a>
-interface, both found in the <code>org.apache.commons.lang.text</code> package. </p>
-<p>Together they allow you to take the <code>java.text.MessageFormat</code> class further and insert your own formatting elements. </p>
-<p>TODO: Insert example. </p>
+interface, both found in the <code>org.apache.commons.lang.text</code> package.</p>
+<p>Together they allow you to take the <code>java.text.MessageFormat</code> class further and insert your own formatting elements.</p>
+<p>TODO: Insert example.</p>
</section>
<section name="New methods">
-<p>There were 58 new methods added to existing Commons Lang classes. Going through each one, one at a time would be dull,
-and fortunately there are some nice groupings that we can discuss instead: </p>
-<p><b>CharSet getInstance(String[])</b> adds an additional builder method by which you can build a CharSet from multiple sets of characters at the same time. If you weren't aware of the CharSet class, it holds a set of characters created by a simple pattern language allowing constructs such as <code>"a-z"</code> and <code>"^a"</code> (everything but 'a'). It's most used by the CharSetUtils class, and came out of CharSetUtils.translate, a simple variant of the UNIX tr command.
+<p>There were 58 new methods added to existing Commons Lang classes. Going through each one, one at a time would be dull,
+and fortunately there are some nice groupings that we can discuss instead:</p>
+<p><b>CharSet getInstance(String[])</b> adds an additional builder method by which you can build a CharSet from multiple sets of characters at the same time. If you weren't aware of the CharSet class, it holds a set of characters created by a simple pattern language allowing constructs such as <code>"a-z"</code> and <code>"^a"</code> (everything but 'a'). It's most used by the CharSetUtils class, and came out of CharSetUtils.translate, a simple variant of the UNIX tr command.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/CharSet.html#getInstance(java.lang.String[])"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>ClassUtils Canonical name methods</b> are akin to the non '<code>Canonical</code>' methods, except they work with the more human readable <code>int[]</code> type names rather than the JVM versions of <code>[I</code>. This makes them useful for parsing input from developer's configuration files.
+<p><b>ClassUtils Canonical name methods</b> are akin to the non '<code>Canonical</code>' methods, except they work with the more human readable <code>int[]</code> type names rather than the JVM versions of <code>[I</code>. This makes them useful for parsing input from developer's configuration files.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/ClassUtils.html"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>ClassUtils toClass(String[])</b> is very easy to explain - it calls <code>toClass</code> on each <code>Object</code> in the array and returns an array of <code>Class</code> objects.
+<p><b>ClassUtils toClass(String[])</b> is very easy to explain - it calls <code>toClass</code> on each <code>Object</code> in the array and returns an array of <code>Class</code> objects.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/ClassUtils.html#toClass(java.lang.Object[])"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>ClassUtils wrapper->primitive conversions</b> are the reflection of the pre-existing <code>primitiveToWrapper</code> methods. Again easy to explain, they turn an array of <code>Integer</code> into an array of <code>int[]</code>.
+<p><b>ClassUtils wrapper->primitive conversions</b> are the reflection of the pre-existing <code>primitiveToWrapper</code> methods. Again easy to explain, they turn an array of <code>Integer</code> into an array of <code>int[]</code>.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/ClassUtils.html#wrappersToPrimitives(java.lang.Class[])"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>ObjectUtils identityToString(StringBuffer, Object)</b> is the StringBuffer variant of the pre-existing <code>identityToString</code> method. In case you've not met tht before, it produces the toString that would have been produced by an Object if it hadn't been overridden.
+<p><b>ObjectUtils identityToString(StringBuffer, Object)</b> is the StringBuffer variant of the pre-existing <code>identityToString</code> method. In case you've not met tht before, it produces the toString that would have been produced by an Object if it hadn't been overridden.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/ObjectUtils.html#identityToString(java.lang.StringBuffer,%20java.lang.Object)"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>StringEscapeUtils CSV methods</b> are a new addition to our range of simple parser/printers. These, quite as expected, parse and unparse CSV text as per <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180">RFC-4180</a>.
+<p><b>StringEscapeUtils CSV methods</b> are a new addition to our range of simple parser/printers. These, quite as expected, parse and unparse CSV text as per <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180">RFC-4180</a>.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html#escapeCsv(java.lang.String)"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>StringUtils</b> has a host of new methods, as always, and we'll leave these for later. </p>
-<p><b>WordUtils abbreviate</b> finds the first space after the lower limit and abbreviates the text.
+<p><b>StringUtils</b> has a host of new methods, as always, and we'll leave these for later.</p>
+<p><b>WordUtils abbreviate</b> finds the first space after the lower limit and abbreviates the text.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/WordUtils.html#abbreviate(java.lang.String,%20int,%20int,%20java.lang.String)"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>math.IntRange/LongRange.toArray</b> turn the range into an array of primitive <code>int</code>/<code>long</code>s contained in the range.
+<p><b>math.IntRange/LongRange.toArray</b> turn the range into an array of primitive <code>int</code>/<code>long</code>s contained in the range.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/math/IntRange.html#toArray()"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a>,
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/math/LongRange.html#toArray()"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>text.StrMatch.isMatch(char[], int)</b> is a helper method for checking whether there was a match with the StrMatcher objects.
+<p><b>text.StrMatch.isMatch(char[], int)</b> is a helper method for checking whether there was a match with the StrMatcher objects.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/text/StrMatcher.html#isMatch(char[],%20int)"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>time.DateFormatUtils format(Calendar, ...)</b> provide Calendar variants for the pre-existing format methods. If these are new to you, they are helper methods to formatting a date.
+<p><b>time.DateFormatUtils format(Calendar, ...)</b> provide Calendar variants for the pre-existing format methods. If these are new to you, they are helper methods to formatting a date.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateFormatUtils.html"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>time.DateUtils getFragment* methods</b> are used to splice the time element out of Date. If you have <code>2008/12/13 14:57</code>, then these could, for example, pull out the 13.
+<p><b>time.DateUtils getFragment* methods</b> are used to splice the time element out of Date. If you have <code>2008/12/13 14:57</code>, then these could, for example, pull out the 13.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.html"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
-<p><b>time.DateUtils setXxx methods</b> round off our walk through the methods - the setXxx variant of the existing addXxx helper methods.
+<p><b>time.DateUtils setXxx methods</b> round off our walk through the methods - the setXxx variant of the existing addXxx helper methods.
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.html"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></p>
</section>
<section name="StringUtils methods">
-<p>The <code>StringUtils</code> class is a little large isn't it. Sorry, but it's got bigger. </p>
+<p>The <code>StringUtils</code> class is a little large isn't it. Sorry, but it's got bigger.</p>
<ul>
<li>boolean containsAny(String, char[]) <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.html#containsOnly(java.lang.String,%20char[])"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></li>
@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@
<li>boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(String, String) <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.html#startsWithIgnoreCase(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)"><img src="/images/external.png"/></a></li>
</ul>
-<p>Hopefully they are in many cases self-describing. Rather than spend a lot of time describing them, we'll let you read the Javadoc of the ones that interest you. </p>
+<p>Hopefully they are in many cases self-describing. Rather than spend a lot of time describing them, we'll let you read the Javadoc of the ones that interest you.</p>
</section>
<section name="So long, farewell...">
-<p>Hopefully that was of interest. Don't forget to download <a href="download_lang.cgi">Lang 2.4</a>, or, for the Maven repositor users, upgrade your <version> tag to 2.4. Please feel free to raise any questions you might have on the <a href="mail-lists.html">mailing lists</a>, and report bugs or enhancements in the <a href="issue-tracking.html">issue tracker</a>. </p>
+<p>Hopefully that was of interest. Don't forget to download <a href="download_lang.cgi">Lang 2.4</a>, or, for the Maven repositor users, upgrade your <version> tag to 2.4. Please feel free to raise any questions you might have on the <a href="mail-lists.html">mailing lists</a>, and report bugs or enhancements in the <a href="issue-tracking.html">issue tracker</a>.</p>
</section>
</section>