dnsjava 1.3.0-beta

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

I just released a beta version of dnsjava 1.3.0.  It contains a bunch of
optimizations to both speed and memory usage and a number of bug fixes. It
updates lots of code internally to use Collections, so will require Java
1.2 or greater.  Large poretions of code have been completely rewritten 
(Name.java, for example), and the new code is a lot more sane and has a 
better API (for example, Name.fromString(String) replaces Name(String), 
and handles errors properly).

Any testing would be greatly appreciated.  I expect to release the final
version in about a week, unless something major comes up.

Changelog below.

Brian

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10/8/2002
	- Cleanups to Cache.addMessage() and the Credibility code.

10/7/2002
	- Fix problems with search path handling in the dns class.
	- Possible race condition fixes to the Cache code.

10/6/2002
	- Fix minor bugs in Name code (Bob Halley <bob...@no...>)
	  
10/1/2002
	- Memory usage and speed improvements to the TypeMap class.

9/25/2002
	- Add the verbosecache option.
	- Significant memory usage improvements to the Name class.

9/23/2002
	- Memory usage improvements to the ARecord class.

9/16/2002
	- Support for NetWare's sys:/etc/resolv.cfg file.
	  (Scott Villinski <sc...@vi...>)

9/5/2002
	- When looking for an rdataset in a zone or cache, seeing a CNAME
	  above the name is not an error.
	  (reported by Andrew Houghton <aa...@vo...>)

8/31/2002
	- Changed the code that dynamically loads record types; hopefully
	  this will solve some of the mysterious problems that I think
	  are related to non-English versions of Windows.
	- Clean up the Name code.

8/28/2002
	- Remove support for bitstring labels, since they're now deprecated.

8/16/2002
	- Address.isDottedQuad didn't check to see if the input String
	  contained characters after an IP address.
	  (Marcos Sanz <sa...@de...>)

8/11/2002
	- Querying for a nonexistant name with exactly one label didn't return.

8/10/2002
	- Add Ant build script (Blake Ramsdell <bl...@br...>)

8/6/2002
	- The AAAARecord constructor was broken.
	- The Record class now implements Comparable.

6/22/2002
	- Significant speed improvements in the Record class and its
	  subclasses.

6/20/2002
	- Add Zone.removeRecord() (based on code from Adam Cassar
	  <ada...@ne...>)
	- Add Zone.toMasterFile() (based on code from Adam Cassar)
	- Performance enhancements to the Name object.
	- Add the "-t type" option to the lookup program.

6/16/2002
	- Update lots of code to use Collections instead of JDK 1.1
	  Vectors & Hashtables.

5/28/2002
	- fix some limitations of name parsing.
	  (reported by Tasos Kotsikonas <ta...@bo...>)

5/4/2002
	- added the 'sleep' and 'date' commands to the update client.
	  (Olafur Gudmundsson <og...@og...>)