[morph-announce] Morph 1.0 Released

[Matt S. <Mat...@wh...>]

I'm pleased to announce that Morph 1.0, the first production-quality 
release of Morph is now available!  Lots of us have been using Morph in 
production for a long time, but finally with Morph 1.0 the API is stable 
so you will be able to upgrade more easily to future versions of Morph.  
Here are the changes in Morph 1.0:

    * Improved Internationalization support for number to text and text
      to number conversions
    * Fixed bug that was causing Morph.convertToDouble and
      Morph.convertToFloat to only return Integers
    * Performanced tuned the static Morph conversion methods so that
      they are nearly as fast as calling the corresponding conversion
      method manually. For example, 10,000 iterations of
      Morph.convertToString used to take 6 seconds on my PC compared to
      only 50 milliseconds for NumberFormat.format. Now Morph only takes
      around 200 milliseconds.
    * Removed the BaseConverter and BaseCopier classes because they
      didn't really do anything. Any existing classes that extend those
      base classes should extend BaseTransformer instead. Just be sure
      to |implements DecoratedConverter| to your converts and
      |implements DecoratedConverter, DecoratedCopier| to your copiers.
    * Minor updates to the reference documentation
    * Added the ObjectToClassConverter and corresponding test case


Matt