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Current Version and Numbering System

The JCL is currently in its 5th major release (v2.1.0) since the original proposal during the Philly-99 JavaPOS meeting. 

This release has some general improvements from the last official release (2.0.1); it also includes various bug fixes.

For each release of the JCL, the last digit after the major and minor number will indicate a bug fix release just like JDK 1.2.2 indicates the second bug fix release for JDK 1.2.

Also, as of the February 2001 meeting in Washington DC, the committee decided to name the release after the 1.2 release 2.0.0.  The rational being that we wanted to remove the confusion of JavaPOS 1.x releases with the JCL since JCL 1.2 and 2.0.0 can be used with JavaPOS 1.5, 1.6 and so on.


Major Changes/Improvements Highlights (v2.1.0)

Core

  1. Improved Apache ANT build process---build.xml
  2. Added JavaPOS controls (1.5, 1.6 and 1.7) JAR files
  3. Support for Apache Xerces 2 parser
  4. Added a new populator that supports Xerces 2 and uses XML schemas in the jpos/res/jcl.xsd schema definition
  5. Changed the license to the Common Public License

Editor

  1. Fixes for posted dW bugs # 1882, 2828, 1888, 1886 and 1894

Other

  1. Improved HTML documentation (overall)
  2. Added a few more JUnit tests
  3. Significantly improved tracing facility and tracing code
  4. Improved various other documentation such properties, README, etc...

Detail Changes From Previous Versions

All changes from previous version are somewhat thoroughly describe in the changes.txt document that is part of the down loaded installation file.

The developerWorks JCL CVS library also keeps the notes on each files that is committed and a history of the commits for each file.


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