Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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!

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