Tequila: Not Just For Breakfast Anymore!
Another public service announcement from the Woodstox project: the second release candidate for eventual 4.0.0-final release, affectionately named "3.9.9-2", hit the streets a minute ago. This is a fairly minor improvement over 3.9.9-1, consisting of:
- One critical bug fix to XMLStreamReader.getElementText() implementation (hit upon by a performance test suite)
- Improvement to packaging: not the source tarball FINALLY uses an intermediate directory so that you don't end up all the crap in your current directory
- It is possible to use any Stax2 implementation (such as Woodstox) via OSGi service interface: Stax2 API now has "org.codehaus.stax2.osgi" package, which has provider objects that implementations can register as services (for input, output and validation factories). Check out 3.9.9-2 Javadocs for more details.
On a related note, I decided that a stiff major release like 4.0.0 deserves its own code name. So, here it is: Woodstox 4.0 will be hereforth known as "Tequila"; as in 'Woodstox 4.0 "Tequila"'. I'll drink to that!
Download responsibly!