[Tm4j-announce] TM4J 0.9.0 Released

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

The TM4J project team is proud to announce the release of TM4J 0.9.0

This new version of TM4J includes numerous changes and new features
including:

 - The Scope interface has been removed. Scope is now represented as a
Set of Topic objects.
 - Updated 3rd party libraries. TM4J now uses Xerces 2.4.0, Antlr 2.7.2,
Hibernate 2.0.1
 - TM4J now uses XTM-defined PSIs (from core.xtm) for type-instance and
subclass-superclass associations. The old org.tm4j.topicmap.PSI class is
now deprecated in favour of org.tm4j.topicmap.XTMPSI.
 - Topic map providers can now be accessed through JNDI.
 - An abstract interface has been added to encapsulate sources of topic
maps, enabling XTM/LTM files and other data sources for topic maps to be
"read" in the same way.
 - Topic map provider creation has been simplified and can read default
values from both the environment and from JAR resources.
 - URI parsing now done in a thread-safe manner. Thanks to Sascha
Weinreuter for the patch.
 - Topic map parsing now makes use of catalogs for the resolution of DTD
and mergeMap references. Thanks to Murray Altheim for donating this
code.
 - Topic types are no longer automatically reflected as class-instance
associations.
 - Logging of PropertyChangeEvents and MultiValuePropertyChangeEvents is
now done to the log category "org.tm4j.topicmap.events"
 - Added the TM4J Administration Tool a GUI tool for managing persistent
topic map stores. See the user documentation in docs/admintool.pdf or
docs/admintool/index.html
 - Full-text indexing of topic maps is now supported. An extension of
the Index interface supports querying full-text indexes of topic map
data and an initial implementation based on Apache's Lucene is provided.
Thanks to Harald Kuhn for donating the code.
 - URI parsing optimisations and other parser speed enhancements.

The new release is now available for download from the TM4J project page
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tm4j/

Happy topic mapping!

The TM4J Project Team