HiveMind Utilities

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Release Name: 0.4.7

Notes:
Latest release of HiveMind Utilities.

Brings many enhancements and bugs fixes.
- hivetranse-src contains only the source and build system.
- hivetranse-bin contains only the HiveMind Utilities jars and all doc.
- hivetranse-3rd-party-libs contains all external dependencies.

This version supports HiveMind 1.0 only.


Changes:
Version 0.4.7
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- General
	- many libraries have been updated to more current versions

- hivetranse.hibernate3:
	- fixed "open session in view" bug with Hibernate 3.1
	[reported by Renat Zubairov on Help forum,
	probably fixes also bug [1172232] reported by Eric Van Dewoestine]
	- added automated test for "open session in view" feature
	- added support for annotated classes and packages (Hibernate 3.1 + Annotations)
	through HibernateSettingsSchema settings (untested, requires Java 5)
	[fixes bug [1292631]]

- hivetranse.hibernate:
	- backported "open session in view" fix for Hibernate 3.1 (was not a real bug
	with Hibernate 2.1, but is better designed now)

- hivegui:
	- created new CenterLayout layout manager to center one single component 
	inside a container (based on its preferred size)
	- created new SelectAllFocusListener listener class to automatically select
	all the text of a JTextComponent (eg JTextField, JPassword...) when it gains
	focus
	- added utility widgets for color management, particularly a Color Chooser
	that allows setting color transparency
	- added utility widgets for image file management, particularly a File Chooser
	that allows to choose the image format to save to (and its settings).

	- new utility class to hold the current active Window (used by DialogHelper
	and MessageFactory).
	- new methods in DialogHelper, with no need for DockingService argument

	- improved BeanTable to support popup menus even when the table is empty
	- added possibility to add a selection consumer to a BeanTable
	- added possibility to get/set a Command for double-clicks

	- MenuFactory now uses lazy evaluation of Commands called by menus
	- added support for hierarchical menus (menus with sub-menus)

	- added automatic wait cursor feature (based on "WaitCursorEventQueue" by
	Nathan Arthur)
	- added capability to CursorFactory to give access to specific cursor
	information (hotspot, size...). Added new ObjectProvider "cursor-info"

- hiveevents:
	- Consumer interface has been moved to hiveutils module (under same package,
	so no compatibility problem)
	- improved Channel interface to allow unblocking of a waiting pull consumer

- hiveutils:
	- new PreferencesManager and PreferenceObjectProvider to manage easy 
	read/write of beans to Java 1.4 Preferences store.
	- added "eager-load" attribute to ObjectBuilderObjects configuration, to 
	enforce eager creation of some declared objects (NB: does not work in this version)
	- improved QueueImpl to allow reuse of a Queue after call to unblock()
	- AsynchronousTaskPerformer API extended
	- new utility classes for one-way and symmetric encryption