[jt400-news] JTOpen 3.1 now available!

[Christopher S. <cs...@us...>]

Dear developer,

This is to announce the release of JTOpen 3.1!  There have been several
improvements and additions since 3.0:

-  A new build process using Apache Ant that makes it easier for developers
to build the JTOpen jar files themselves.  See
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html  for information about the Ant
project.  The "build" and "include" subdirectories of the CVS tree now
contain the pertinent build files.  See the build.xml file for instructions
on how to set up your environment.  You can browse the build.xml file (or
any other JTOpen source file) online via WebCVS at
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/cvs/jt400/

-  The utilities package has now been included in the jt400.jar... No more
hunting around to find JarMaker or JPing!

-  New utilities are being packaged in the com.ibm.as400.util package.
This includes the new AS400ClassPathOptimizer as submitted by Glen
Marchesani.  It is a tool used to run CRTJVAPGM on various jars and classes
in your CLASSPATH when running on OS/400.  Thanks, Glen!

-  A new tool, CommandHelpRetriever, is available in the com.ibm.as400.util
package.  It uses the Xalan and Xerces parsers to generate HTML help text
for any specified CL command(s) on-the-fly.  Along with this tool comes new
access classes for CommandList, Command, and PanelGroup.

-  Several submitted bugs have been fixed.  Most of these were
JDBC-related.  Always get the latest JTOpen to stay current on the
continuing fixes that go into our JDBC driver.  Thank you to everyone who
submits bugs (and especially those who submit fixes!).  As a reminder, our
bug tracking database can be found at
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/bugs/?group_id=29

-  Some performance improvements have been made in the list-processing
classes (JobList, UserList, MessageQueue, JobLog). Also, some minor changes
to the RUser and User classes were made, resulting in the creation of the
new access classes DirectoryEntryList and DirectoryEntry.  These are not
available in the Toolbox licensed program -- you'll only find them right
here in JTOpen.

-  A few new CCSIDs are now supported, including the popular CCSID 1153
(Latin-2 with Euro) as well as a handful of others in the 1100 range. Also,
support for CCSID 4971 was added to accommodate the new GB18030 Chinese
codepage.


Download the JTOpen 3.1 binaries from the Toolbox Downloads page at:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/toolbox/downloads.htm

Our Toolbox/JTOpen web forum remains active at:
http://www-912.ibm.com/j_dir/JTOpen.nsf/By+Date?OpenView

Thanks again for your support!

Sincerely,
Chris Smith
The JTOpen Core Team
The IBM Toolbox for Java Development Team


JTOpen web site:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jt400/
IBM developerWorks JTOpen project page:
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/jt400
IBM Toolbox for Java web site:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/toolbox/