You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by rd...@apache.org on 2004/07/04 17:31:17 UTC
cvs commit: jakarta-commons/betwixt RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org