j8583 1.9.1 Released

j8583 version 1.9.1 is now available.

This release includes several new features, mainly for XML configuration convenience:

• header elements can be defined as a reference to another header element.
• template and parse elements can extend other template and parse elements, inheriting all their field definitions. The extending types can define fields with type exclude to exclude fields defined in the extended type.
• New codec CompositeField, which also acts as a container of several IsoValues, very useful for fields than can contain subfields.
• FieldParseInfo instances can have their own CustomField which has priority over the CustomField defined (if any) for a particular field in the MessageFactory.
• Parsing guides in XML config can have fields containing subfields; they are processed as CustomFields associated to the FieldParseInfo for the outer field.

j8583 is still compatible with Java 6...