[jibx-announce] RC1 Release

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I've just posted the RC1 release. I'm hoping to only make documentation 
changes at this point before the official production release. Major 
changes since RC0 include:

1. Corrected problems with <include> operation, and with binding model 
error detection for <includes> (passing context properly).
2. Modified JiBXException chained exception handling to work properly on 
JDK 1.3.
3. Fixed issue with finding set-method when no type otherwise specified 
(for input-only bindings).
4. Corrected issue with marshalling to UTF-16 encodings.
5. Various improvements and corrections for the binding validation, and 
to the handling of several unusual binding structures which resulted in 
IllegalStateExceptions during the binding compile.
6. Added the "force-classes" attribute to the <binding> element to force 
the generation of marshaller/unmarshaller classes for abstract non-base 
mappings (essentially type mappings), and the 
org.jibx.runtime.IBindingFactory.getTypeIndex() method to provide a way 
of looking up these type mappings at runtime. This was an incompatible 
change to the binding compiler, so it requires rerunning the binding 
compiler for all classes bound with earlier versions of JiBX.
7. Solved a problem where the Ant build would use the old version of the 
jars for some tests when running a target which both rebuild jars and 
ran tests (the problem was the "bind" task definition at the top level 
of the build.xml, which would attach to the old version of the jars).
8. Added support for arrays as collections.
9. Added "choice" attribute to mapping and structure definitions, which 
generates code to accept one and only one of the child components (which 
must all be elements) when unmarshalling.
10. Added type names for abstract mappings, allowing multiple abstract 
mappings for the same class to be defined and referenced as needed.
11. Added requirement for value element child of collection to have type 
(either using type attribute of value element, or item-type on collection).
12. Added QName value type to extras, QNameReference example in 
test/extras to show handling namespace declarations using pre-get and 
pre-set methods.
13. Fixed problem with wrong element name reported when the expected 
name for elements in a collection is not found.
14. Improved source tracking to avoid common problems with location 
being set multiple times (causing reported location to be off).
15. Corrected issue with pre-set methods only being called when a new 
instance of the object was created.

  - Dennis