[Javadata-developer] release alpha6

[Gary B. <be...@el...>]

This release will be one of the last releases before we release version 
1.0 of javadata. The main differences between this release [alpha6] and 
v1.0 will be in the packaging of classes and documentation.

With respect to packaging, we will at least move the classes related to 
xml pull parsers into another jar file. With xml parsing included in 
the 1.4.1 release, there will then be no need for packages other than 
javadata and the standard jdk packages to compile and deploy javadata 
apps. There are other useful packaging configurations that factor the 
code even more, but for now we're keeping the changes to a minimum.

If you are interested in an xml parser that's fast (10x) and robust, 
try replacing your current InputObjectFactory with a 
QuikInputObjectFactory. Bart's Quik parser does not support xml schema 
or dtd validation, but because it is integrated with the javadata 
object creation framework, it does support namespaces.

-- Gary

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Release 1.0-alpha-6
December 19, 2003
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- This release includes Bart's fast xml parser, Quik, which operates on 
a subset of xml
   and runs up to 10 times faster than the Sax parser supplied with the 
Java 1.4.1 JDK.

- additional classes

	io
		CountInputStream

	io.xml
		QuikInputObjectFactory

	io.xml.quik
		Quik
		StringProto
		TagProto

- additional methods

	io.IOps
		public static char[] toCharArray(InputStream is, int len) throws 
IOException;
		public static char[] toCharArray(Reader r) throws IOException;