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--- RELEASE_NOTES_1_4_0_BETA2.txt	29 Jul 2004 09:43:24 -0000	1.2
+++ RELEASE_NOTES_1_4_0_BETA2.txt	29 Jul 2004 13:49:59 -0000	1.3
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+Hi,
 
 The Community OpenORB 1.4.0 BETA2 is out.
 
@@ -65,9 +66,9 @@
   OpenORB compile under IBM JDK 1.4.2 as this class seems to be
   missing from IBM's server.jar in 1.4.2 whereas it was still present
   in version 1.4.1.
-- Fixed boolean property parsing for the iiop.useNativeLibrary. OpenORB's
-  getBooleanProperty assumes each value not equal to 'false' or 'no'
-  as true, so when Ant is passing a property like this:
+- Fixed boolean property parsing for the iiop.useNativeLibrary.
+  OpenORB's getBooleanProperty assumes each value not equal to 'false'
+  or 'no' as true, so when Ant is passing a property like this:
      iiop.useNativeLibrary=${useNativeLibrary}
   because the property has not been set OpenORB evaluates the property
   to true and wants to load the native library later in the tests.
@@ -79,16 +80,18 @@
   (sumedh _at_ nms _dot_ fnc _dot_ fujitsu _dot_ com).
 - In rare instances a thread deadlock can occur between
   "org.openorb.orb.io.BufferSource.setException()" and
-  "org.openorb.orb.iiop.IIOPClientRequest.lastReplyMessage()".  What happens
-  is that "IIOPClientRequest.cancel()" (holding the 'm_sync_state' lock) is
-  called at the same time as "BufferSource.next()" (holding the
+  "org.openorb.orb.iiop.IIOPClientRequest.lastReplyMessage()". What
+  happens is that "IIOPClientRequest.cancel()" (holding the
+  'm_sync_state' lock) is called at the same time as
+  "BufferSource.next()" (holding the
   'BufferSource' lock) generates a firing of the attached
   'LastMessageProcessedListener', calling
   "IIOPClientRequest.lastReplyMessage()", which needs the 'm_sync_state'
-  lock. The solution I've come up with is to make the "BufferSource.next()"
-  method release the 'BufferSource' thread lock before calling the attached
-  'LastMessageProcessedListener'.  As part of this, I've moved the
-  functionality of the 'BufferSource.lastMessageProcessed()' method into
+  lock. The solution I've come up with is to make the
+  "BufferSource.next()" method release the 'BufferSource' thread lock
+  before calling the attached 'LastMessageProcessedListener'. As part
+  of this, I've moved the functionality of the
+  'BufferSource.lastMessageProcessed()' method into
   "BufferSource.next()". This fix was contributed by Eric Thomas
   (e _dot_ thomas _at_ isti _dot_ com).
 - Fixed a sporadic NPE in Delegate.java.
@@ -111,19 +114,20 @@
   initializer loggers. In that case, the priority setting in the
   configuration is basically ignored.
 - Fixed some problems with the debug input and output streams which
-  would not work under Win32 and were prone to overwriting exisiting logs.
+  would not work under Win32 and were prone to overwriting exisiting
+  logs.
 - Refactored ConfiguredSocketFactory to use a stream decoration strategy
   for wrapping socket input and output streams. This framework is more
-  powerful and robust than the functionality previously provided by setting
-  the properties:
+  powerful and robust than the functionality previously provided by
+  setting the properties:
     iiop.SocketOutputStreamClass
     iiop.SocketInputStreamClass
   The use of these properties is now deprecated.
 - Fixed some threading errors including use of double-check locking.
 - Fixed filename to classname convertion in the Java to IDL compiler to
   handle '\' path separators in addition to '/' path separators.
-- Fixed problem in the IDL to Java translator for valuetypes that support
-  interfaces from a different module.
+- Fixed problem in the IDL to Java translator for valuetypes that
+  support interfaces from a different module.
 - Do not show a warning for an unknown policy value during POA creation
   because it will be handled later on by a policy factory.
 - Indicate the pool manager thread to shutdown during ORB shutdown.
@@ -155,12 +159,13 @@
 - Fixed the broken IDL reflection example.
 - Fixed a StackOverflowError (due to an infinite recursion on initCause)
   when the ORB class is not found.
-- In OMG's ORB.init(...) operations, added checking for ORB class properties
-  passed through the props parameters to ORB.init(...).
-- Added the ORB.destroy() operation as it is defined in the CORBA 2.4 spec
-  (Section 4.2.3.5).
-- Added the ORB.destroy() implementation along with changes to shutdown()
-  and finalize() in order to check for multiple calls to these methods.
+- In OMG's ORB.init(...) operations, added checking for ORB class
+   properties passed through the props parameters to ORB.init(...).
+- Added the ORB.destroy() operation as it is defined in the CORBA 2.4
+  spec (Section 4.2.3.5).
+- Added the ORB.destroy() implementation along with changes to
+  shutdown() and finalize() in order to check for multiple calls to
+  these methods.
 - Fixed a NPE in idl2java Ant task when verbose="true",
   Sourceforge bug ID 881983
 - Added a property "openorb.rmi.use_native_library" which
@@ -205,7 +210,8 @@
 
 Tools:
 ------
-- For IBM JDK 1.4.2 the ibmorbapi.jar must be put on the jdk.runtime.jars
+- For IBM JDK 1.4.2 the ibmorbapi.jar must be put on the
+  jdk.runtime.jars
   property otherwise org.omg.CORBA.SystemException will not be found.
 - Added HSQLDB jar which substitutes the InstantDB formerly available
   for OTS only.
@@ -215,17 +221,17 @@
 - Changed the Copyright year from '2003' to '2002-2004'.
 - Fixed compilation under IBM JDK because the runtime libraries there
   are not rt.jar, but core.jar and server.jar.
-- Fixed the service option: writeIORFile to respect file names instead of
-  folders only. Patch contributed by Richard G. Hash
+- Fixed the service option: writeIORFile to respect file names instead
+  of folders only. Patch contributed by Richard G. Hash
   (richard _dot_ hash _at_ openspirit _dot_ com).
-- Optimized NumberCache and CharacterCache, removing the caching of MIN_VALUE
-  and MAX_VALUE. The cache range is now configurable using system properties,
-  see the javadocs for details.
+- Optimized NumberCache and CharacterCache, removing the caching of
+  MIN_VALUE and MAX_VALUE. The cache range is now configurable using
+  system properties, see the javadocs for details.
 - Added JUnit tests for caching.
 - Added ConfigUtils class to hold any common config code.
-- In ServerBase, added more searching for the ORB class according to the spec
-  (e.g., system properties and orb.properties file) in deciding whether
-  the OpenORB ORB shall be used or not.
+- In ServerBase, added more searching for the ORB class according to
+  the spec (e.g., system properties and orb.properties file) in
+  deciding whether the OpenORB ORB shall be used or not.
 - changed ZipUtil method names CreateZip, OpenZip and CloseZip to
   lowercase (binary incompatible change)
 - Added the NamingService JNDI jar to the classpath when running
@@ -323,7 +329,8 @@
   shall use the time base at 15 October 1582 00:00:00 GMT at a precision
   of 100 nanoseconds. The old implementation used the Java Date, which
   has time base 1 January 1970 00:00:00 and a precision of milliseconds.
-  Also updated the spec version to Time Service Spec 1.1 (formal/02-05-06).
+  Also updated the spec version to Time Service Spec 1.1
+  (formal/02-05-06).
 
 
 



