Woodstox 3.0rc2 released
(editor's note: cowtown bloggers have been enjoying unusually warm weather of the pacific US northwest -- apologies for the lack of news, we'll try to round 'em up and writing for y'all's reading pleasure!)
Another release candidate of Woodstox XML processor was released yesterday. Since the goal now is to just solidify the release, there are no big changes. However, all bugs reported against the first release candidate were resolved. Some improvements were also done to the build process, so that pom files for Maven should now be properly generated, as requested. For a detailed list of changes, check the changelog.
With limited number of bug reports (and none that were regressions), here's hoping that the final 3.0 release can be done in next few weeks. 3.0 release itself will (when finalized) also mean that some other dependant/related projects can proceed. For example:
- StaxMate project could release it's 1.0 version. It has been slow going (although I prefer "slow cooked" over "stagnant"...), but at least API and feature set are getting quite stable.
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Woodstox feature set could be cleaned up for 4.0. Some of planned
changes are:
- Remove support for suppressing linefeed normalization. It doesn't seem very useful, but requires quite a bit of coding internally to work
- Move base JDK requirement from 1.2 to 1.4. This will simplify code, since no work-arounds are needed for features not found in 1.2 or 1.3 (LinkedHashMap and such).
- I could spend more time on documenting new 3.0 features like pluggable bi-directional validation system (todo: blog about "How do I validate XML output against a RNG schema"!
