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JImageTaglib is now LGPL, enjoy it!
New features are almost ready to release, some interesting things are coming: GIF support (including animated and transparent), and much more.

- Performance improvement (first BETA release);
- Disposable cache for BufferedImages available.

- Performance improvement;
- Customization of BufferedImage cache implementation (BasicCache, TimeoutCache, etc), allowing caching the already rendered images for a specific time, defining cleanup timeout, etc. Allows on-hand cache defining for a specific image, using taglib parameters;
- New pseudo-method for handling the servlet request (prevents problems with GET method).

- Performance inprovement;
- Now JImageTaglib applies the filters, resizers and subimagers in the same order that the tags was declared.
- Reusability improvement.

The 0.3 Alpha Version of JImageTaglib implements a "pool" that caches all the already generated BufferedImages, improving performance.

JImageTaglib was reported on brazilian Java sites, Javafree.com.br and PortalJava.com.br. Follow the links:
- http://www.javafree.com.br/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=542
- http://www.portaljava.com.br

- Added better exceptions handling;
- Added better javadoc comments.

- New filter effects added;
- Barcode generation support added.

JImageTaglib was released today in its first public version, 0.1 Alpha. The following image handling features are available:

- Applying filter effecs (blur, sharpen, posterize, invert, etc);
- Resizing image (keeping or leaving aspect);
- SubImage feature (show only a x, y,w,h part of the image).

Please report any bugs.

Barcode generation and text / 2D elements coming soon.