These are the release notes and advice for upgrading Commons-Lang from version 2.0 to version 2.1. INTRODUCTION: This document contains the release notes for the 2.1 version of Apache Jakarta Commons Lang. Commons Lang is a set of utility functions and reusable components that should be of use in any Java environment. INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES: - The Nestable interface defines the method indexOfThrowable(Class). Previously the implementations checked only for a specific Class. Now they check for subclasses of that Class as well. For most situations this will be the expected behaviour (ie. its a bug fix). If it causes problems, please use the ExceptionUtils.indexOfThrowable(Class) method instead. Note that the ExceptionUtils method is available in v1.0 and v2.0 of commons-lang and has not been changed. (An alternative to this is to change the public static matchSubclasses flag on NestableDelegate. However, we don't recommend that as a long-term solution.) - The StopWatch class has had much extra validation added. If your code previously relied on unusual aspects, it may no longer work. - Starting with version 2.1, Ant version 1.6.x is required to build. Copy junit.jar to ANT_HOME/lib. You can get JUnit from http://www.junit.org. See the developer's guide for more details. DEPRECATIONS: - The enum package has been renamed to enums for JDK1.5 compilance. All functionality is identical, just the package has changed. This package will be removed in v3.0. - NumberUtils.stringToInt - renamed to toInt - DateUtils - four constants, MILLIS_IN_* have been deprecated as they were defined as int not long. The replacements are MILLIS_PER_*. NEW FEATURES: New: - Mutable package - contains basic classes that hold an Object or primitive and provide both get and set methods. - DurationFormatUtils - provides various methods for formatting durations - CharEncoding - definitions of constants for character encoding work - CharUtils - utilities for working with characters Updated: - ArrayUtils - many more methods, especially List-like methods - BooleanUtils - isTrue and isFalse methods that handle null - ClassUtils - primitive to wrapper class conversion methods - ClassUtils - class name comparator - IllegalClassException - extra constructor for common instanceof case - NotImplementedException - supports nested exceptions - ObjectUtils - hashcode method handling null - StringUtils - isAsciiPrintable to check the contents of a string -- ordinalIndexOf to find the nth index of a string -- various remove methods to remove parts of a string -- various split methods to provide more control over splitting a string -- defaultIfEmpty to default a string if null or empty - SystemUtils - methods to get system properties as File objects -- extra constants representing system properties - Validate - new methods to check whether all elements in a collection are of a specific type - WordUtils - new methods to capitalize based on a set of specified delimiters - EqualsBuilder - now provides setter to internal state - ToStringStyle - new style, short prefix style - ReflectionToStringBuilder - more flags to control the output with regards to statics - ExceptionUtils - added indexOfType methods that check subclasses, thus leaving the existing indexOfThrowable method untouched (see incompatible changes section) - NumberUtils - various string to number parsing methods added - DateUtils - methods added to compare dates in various ways -- method to parse a date string using multiple patterns - FastDateFormat - extra formatting methods that take in a millisecond long value -- additional static factory methods - StopWatch - new methods for split behaviour BUG FIXES: 19331 General case: infinite loop: ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString 23174 EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) throws NPE 23356 Make DurationFormatUtils public! 23557 WordUtils.capitalizeFully(String str) should take a delimiters 23683 New method for converting a primitive Class to its corresponding wrapper 23430 Minor javadoc fixes for StringUtils.contains(String, String) 23590 make optional parameters in FastDateFormat really optional 24056 Documentation error in StringUtils.replace 25227 StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml() doesn't handle hex entities 25454 new StringUtils.replaceChars behaves differently from old Ch 25560 DateUtils.truncate() is off by one hour when using a date in DST switch 'zone' 25627 DateUtils constants should be long 25683 Add method that validates Collection elements are a correct 25849 Add SystemUtils methods for directory properties. 26616 ClassCastException in Enum.equals(Object) 26699 Tokenizer Enhancements: reset input string, static CSV 26734 NullPointerException in EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) 26877 Add SystemUtils.AWT_TOOLKIT and others. 26922 public static boolean DateUtils.equals(Date dt1, Date dt2) 27592 WordUtils capitalize improvement 27876 ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString(null) throws exception by design 27877 Make ClassUtils methods null-safe and not throw an IAE. 28468 StringUtils.defaultString: Documentation error 28554 Add hashCode-support to class ObjectUtils 29082 Enhancement of ExceptionUtils.CAUSE_METHOD_NAMES 29149 StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml() doesn't handle an empty entity 29294 lang.math.Fraction class deficiencies 29673 ExceptionUtils: new getCause() methodname (for tomcat) 29794 Add convenience format(long) methods to FastDateForma 30328 HashCodeBuilder does not use the same values as Boolean (fixed as documentation) 30334 New class proposal: CharacterEncoding 30674 parseDate class from HttpClient's DateParser class 30815 ArrayUtils.isEquals() throws ClassCastException when array1 30929 Nestable.indexOfThrowable(Class) uses Class.equals() to match 31395 DateUtils.truncate oddity at the far end of the Date spectrum 31478 Compile error with JDK 5 "enum" is a keyword 31572 o.a.c.lang.enum.ValuedEnum: 'enum'is a keyword in JDK1.5.0 31933 ToStringStyle setArrayEnd handled null incorrectly 32133 SystemUtils fails init on HP-UX 32198 Error in JavaDoc for StringUtils.chomp(String, String) 32625 Can't subclass EqualsBuilder because isEquals is private 33067 EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) crashes with a NullPointerException if an element of the first array is null 33069 EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) incorrectly checks that rhs[i] is instance of lhs[i]'s class 33574 unbalanced ReflectionToStringBuilder 33737 ExceptionUtils.addCauseMethodName(String) does not check for duplicates.