
Version (CVS)
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Version 0.9.9, Sep 22, 2005
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JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1215 using contribution from Gregory Block[gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Fixed JDO.getDatabase()NullPointerException.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1215
       (Ralf - 20050919)

Version 0.9.9M2, Sep 13, 2005
-------------------------------

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1210 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Removed references to Poolman from documentation on pooling.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1210
       (Werner - 20050907)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1195 using contribution from Nick Stuart[nicholas.stuart@gmail.com]
       Integrated original test case provided into Castor CTF.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1195
       (Werner - 20050908)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1207 using contribution from Clovis Wichosky[clovis.wichoski@gmail.com]
       Prefer to use setter with reference type before setter with primitive
       type if multiple setters are available.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1207
       (Ralf - 20050907)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1195 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Fixed problem with class resolution during loading polymorphic objects.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1195
       (Werner - 20050905)

All:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1071 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added marketplace section.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1071
       (Werner - 20050901)

Version 0.9.9M1, Aug 24, 2005
-------------------------------

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1204 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added release notes for 0.9.9M1.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1204
       (Werner - 20050823)
       
ALL:   Fixed bug CASTOR-999 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Added ant targets to to check code conventions with checkstyle.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-999
       (Ralf - 20050823)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1203 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Calculation of priority to execute create and delete statements at commit returns
       wrong results when no keygen is used or class depends/extends another.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1203
       (Ralf - 20050823)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-920 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Changed argument handling code.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-920
       (Werner - 20050822)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1151 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Completely refactored ClassMolder, introducing strategy objects for field resolution.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1151
       (Werner - 20050821)
       
XML:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1132 using contributions from Michael Westbay and
       Keith Visco. Added additional check for various built-in types
       when deciding whether or not to use the parent classes namespace
       if no local namespace has been defined.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1132
       (kvisco - 20050817)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1179 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Refactored how transaction managers are maintained.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1179
       (Ralf - 20050817)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1158 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Stricter checking at type conversion from string to boolean.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1158
       (Ralf - 20050808)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-943 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Created a test case for configuring JDO DataSource using a Properties collection.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-943
       (Ralf - 20050806)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1190 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Fix syntax failures in sapdb.sql script and improve sapdb test coverage.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1190
       (Ralf - 20050806)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1185 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Replaced MimeBase64Encoder/Decoder with new implementation Base64Encoder/Decoder.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1185
       (Ralf - 20050805)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-799 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Refactored MANIFEST files and their usage within Castor.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-799
       (Werner - 20050805)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1102 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added support for various distributed casches.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1102
       (Werner - 20050801)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-300 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       JDO support for typesafe enumerations.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-300
       (Ralf - 20050730)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1178 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added code to set identity upon registering objects with ObjectTracker.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1178
       (Werner - 20050803)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1183 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Allow to initialize JDOManager with a preconfigured DataSource.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1183
       (Ralf - 20050803)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1173 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Solved problem using JDOConfFactory and transaction demarcation specification.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1173
       (Ralf - 20050801)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-755 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Place all JDO unit tests in a new src/tests/utf/org/exolab/castor/ tree.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-755
       (Ralf - 20050731)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1114 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Update docs on the limit clause support for OQL.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1114
       (Ralf - 20050731)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1169 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Refactored access to caches, adding CacheEntry class and making OID and CacheEntry implement
       java.io.Serializable.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1169
       (Werner - 20050727)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-778 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Remove deleteExtend method from ClassMolder.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-778
       (Werner - 20050725)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1135 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Refactor how JDBC connection factories are maintained.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1135
       (Ralf - 20050724)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1018 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added support for polymorphism.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1018
       (Werner - 20050715)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1110 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Refactor CTF-JDO tests into subdirectories (part 2).
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1110
       (Ralf - 20050705)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-874 using contribution from Werner Guttmann[werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added DB2 category to src/tests/tests.xml.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-874
       (Werner - 20050703)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1085 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Complete rewrite of TransactionContext with regards to obejct tracking.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1085
       (Werner - 20050620)
       
General:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1155 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added org.castor package under src/main.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1155
       (Werner - 20050617)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-732 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Added performance test-suite for 1:n relations of JDO.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-732
       (Ralf - 20050616)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-352 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added support for transient attribute at the <sql> element.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-352
       (Werner - 20050615)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-633 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Removed hidden catch-block in LockEngine.updateCache().
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-352
       (Werner - 20050614)

Version 0.9.7, Jun 8, 2005
---------------------------

                        
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1138 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Reverted addition to src/tests/jdo/Collections due to problem with missing setItem(ArrayList).
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1147
       (Werner - 20050607)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1138 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Moved key generators to jdo.keygen package.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1138
       (Werner - 20050530)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-881 using contribution from Nick Stuart [nick@newtsplace.com]
       JDOManager can now handle more then one jdo-conf.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-881
       (Ralf - 20050530)

Version 0.9.7M1, May 25, 2005
-------------------------------

XML:   Fixed bug CASTOR-938 anonymous groups in complex types are disambiguated unnecessarily
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-938
       Patch Submitted: Hendrik Schreiber 

XML:   Fixed bug CASTOR-664 relating to ignore elements not working
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-664
       Patch Submitted: Heri Bender
       (afawcett- 20050521)

XML:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1048 relating to use of mult-value attributes
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1048
       (afawcett - 20050521)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1134 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Restore default behaviour when no type is specified for a field mapping
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1134
       (Werner - 20050520)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1129 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Changed column names in SQL statement of CallSql to lower-case.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1129
       (Werner - 20050519)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1111 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Changed documentation from JDO2 to JDOManager.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1111
       (Werner - 20050517)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1116 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Replaced Ant 1.5 with Ant 1.6.x.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1116
       (Werner - 20050517)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1112 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added documentation about JDBC proxy classes (incl. property in castor.properties).
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1112
       (Werner - 20050517)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1120 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emircaus@bih.net.ba]
       Changed column name 'num' to 'numb', as 'num' happens to be a keyword with SAPDB.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1120
       (Werner - 20050517)
       
XML:   Fixed CASTOR-65 using contribution from Jene Jasper [jjasper@abz.nl]
       Added patch to allow the ablity to specify to a binding file Source Generator Ant task.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-65
       (Bruce - 20050511)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1098 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Refactor CTF-JDO tests into subdirectories (part 1).
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1063
       (Ralf - 20050511)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-973 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       build.xml now uses sourc generator Ant task definitio during code generation.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-973
       (Werner - 20050511)
       
JavaSource: Added ability to output source for Java 5 enum classes
       (afawcett - 20050509)

JavaSource: Added ability to add exceptions to JConstructor. 
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1050
       Patch Submitted by: Thomas Zooman
       (afawcett - 20050508)     

XML:   Fixed bug CASTOR-655 also know as bugzilla 1516. This fixes the
       issue with using location attribute with both attributes and text 
       nodes the same location element.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-655
       (kvisco - 20050503)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-954 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added proxy classes for JDBC Connection and PreparedStatement to improve SQL statement logging.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-954
       (Werner - 20050430)
 
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1097 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emircaus@bih.net.ba]
       Added cast of null needed for some reflection methods for Java5.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1097
       (Ralf - 20050502)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1098 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emircaus@bih.net.ba]
       Fixed compile error on Java5 caused by the usage of "enum" as identifier in JDO tests.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1098
       (Ralf - 20050502)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1082 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Improve the error messages related to the use of key generators.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1082
       (Werner - 20050430)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1084 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Reworked the Cache interface to be 100% compliant with java.util.Map.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1084
       (Werner - 20050430)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1088 using contribution from Tim Telcik [ttelcik@hbf.com.au]
       Improved the way Castor JDO logs error messages if a transaction fails.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1088
       (Werner - 20050429)
       
JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-880 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added java.sql.Connection getJdbcConnection() to Database interface.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-880
       (Werner - 20050427)
       
JDO:   Fixed issue CASTOR-1081. This required the refactoring of all key
       generators to extract the supportsSqlType() method which is now called
       early rather than late from within the SQLEngine constructor.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1081
       (Bruce - 20050425)

JDO:   Fixed bug CASTOR-1086 using contribution from Bin Liu [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added type casts to Types.java to overcome runtime exceptions with Java 1.4.x.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1086
       (Werner - 20050425)
       
All:   Fixed bug 1712 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Improved logging of exceptions related to security policy at Configuration.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1712
       (Ralf - 20050424)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1781 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added JDOManager.loadConfiguration(JdoConf).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1781
       (Ralf - 20050424)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1865 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Multiple <database> problems.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1865
       (Ralf - 20050421)

All:   Fixed bug 1933 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Refactor AccessMode.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1933
       (Ralf - 20050417)

XML:   Fixed bug 1730 using contribution from Roy van der Kuil [roy@vanderkuil.nl]
       Provide more information on error when manipulating collections
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730
       (Ralf - 20050408)

All:   Fixed bug 1929 using contribution from Stefan Rotman [srotman@factotummedia.nl]
       CastorException prints "Caused by: " to System.err in all cases.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1929
       (Ralf - 20050408)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1491 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Test for open transaction before closing it.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491
       (Stein - 20050407)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1860 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Rename JDO2 to JDOManager.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860
       (Ralf - 20050406)

All:   Fixed bug 1820 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Add template for submitting a bug report.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1820
       (Ralf - 20050406)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1214 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Fixed problem in field molder when dealing with 'set'
       methods with more than one signature.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214
       (Ralf - 20050402)

XML:   Fixed bug CASTOR-635, also known as bugzilla 1496. This fixes issue
       with using the bind-xml location attribute for both elements
       and attributes with the same location path.
       Details: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-635
       (kvisco - 20050330)
       

JDO:   Fixed bug 1916 using contribution from Tim Telcik [ttelcik@hbf.com.au]
       Fixed typo in transaction manager class for WAS v4 and add note that
       database pooling should be enabled for WAS v4 and v5.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1916
       (Ralf - 20050330)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1917 using contribution from Tim Telcik [ttelcik@hbf.com.au]
       Fixed misleading error messages referencing to "javax.jta.TransactionManager"
       instead of "javax.transaction.TransactionManager".
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1917
       (Ralf - 20050330)

All:   Fixed bug 1903 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Enclose debug-statements with isDebugEnabled when string-concatenation 
       is used in the debug-call.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1903
       (Stein - 20050324)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1691 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Extend FieldHandlerImpl to be able to handle multiple overloaded set methods.
       This now makes possible to specify the pooling parameter "cache-scheme"
       for Oracle connects.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691
       (Martin - 20050320)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1889 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Fixed bug with cryptic message at 1:m relation with depends relationship.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1889
       (Ralf - 20050318)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1882 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Fixed failure in hash code calculation of org.exolab.castor.persist.spi.Complex.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882
       (Ralf - 20050312)

All:   Fixed bug 1851 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added RSS news feed.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851
       (Werner - 20050307)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1852 using contribution from Nick Stuart [nick@newtsplace.com]
       Fixed Compile issue on JDK 1.5.0_01.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1852
       (Werner - 20050307)

Misc:  Eclipse reported a lot of warnings for the whole Castor source
       code. This change eliminates most of them without changing any
       functionality. It spares the XML packages to avoid CVS conflicts.
       This will be handled a bit later by Keith. Other still pending
       warnings are "real" warnings - they need to be investigated
       further and might result in additional larger code changes.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1896
       (Martin - 20050305)

JDO:   Updated documentation to explain that no auto-mapping of
       java.util.Date takes place; users must decide whether to
       map a particular date field to java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time,
       or java.sql.Timestamp.

XML:   Fixed bug with auto-complete and text-nodes. Basically the field
       descriptor for text-nodes was not getting copied to the new
       ClassDescriptor causing an error with "illegal text content"
       to occur.
       (kvisco - 20050228)

XML:   Added support for package specific mapping files with
       the name ".castor.xml". The package specific mapping
       file is loaded the first time a class from the package
       is resolved. This allows people to write mapping files
       without having to specify them directly to the
       Marshaller and Unmarshaller. Note that this is only
       supported by Castor XML as the ClassDescriptorResolverImpl
       is the class that invokes the automatic loading of the
       package specific mapping files.
       (kvisco - 20050228)

XML:   Added support for CDR (ClassDescriptorResolver)
       class-to-descriptor package listings. Each package can
       contain a ".castor.cdr" file which is a properties file
       that lists the classname=descriptor. This allows the
       default ClassDescriptorResolverImpl to find and load all
       descriptors from a given package.
       (kvisco - 20050228)


XML:   Updated the ClassDescriptorResolver interface to remove
       the getErrorMessage() and error() methods, and added
       ResolverException. Please make sure you update any code that
       directly uses ClassDescriptorResolver or our default
       implementation ClassDescriptorResovlerImpl.
       (kvisco - 20050228)

XML:   Fixed bug 1875. The primary issue was that the generated
       source code for simpleContent restrictions was not extending
       the type it was restricting, so it wasn't able to be used
       in place of the original type.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1875
       (kvisco - 20050226)

XML:   Fixed limitation that prevented using GeneralizedFieldHandler
       from a binding-file. The generated source code now works
       properly.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869
       (kvisco - 20050222)


JDO:   Fixed bug 1877 using contribution from Lilians Auvigne) [lilian.auvigne@bnpparibas.com ]
       Fixed wrong class and method name for Websphere 5.0 transaction manager factory.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1877
       (Werner - 20050217)

Version 0.9.6, Februray 09, 2004
-------------------------------

JDO:   Fixed bug 1855 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Fixed problem with TransactionContext.getObjectEntry(Object) that was introduced as a
       result of adding support for lazy loading 1:1 relations.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855
       (Werner - 20050208)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1849 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Added F.A.Q. entry describing compatibility problems between various releases of mySQL 4.1.x
       and its JDBC drivers.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1849
       (Werner - 20050204)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1848 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Reverted various DOCTYPE definitions in src/tests/jdo to use DTDs.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1848
       (Werner - 20050204)

XML:   Fixed issue with GeneralizedFieldHandler not able to handle collections.
       Collections are now automatically iterated over during getValue() calls
       and each item in the collection is passed into the convertUponGet method.
       To retain the old behavior simply add a call to #setCollectionIteration
       with a value of false in the constructor of your GeneralizedFieldHandler.
       The behavior for setter methods is not changed since only one item at a
       time is passed into the setter already.
       (kvisco - 20050118)

XML:   Fixed whitespace processing bug, where a ' ' was actually getting
       appended to the end of a string value if the parser was calling the
       #characters method again with only whitespace following a previous
       call to #characters method where valid content existed.
       Reported by: Paul Spencer
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1850
       (kvisco - 20050114)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1839 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Added getCacheManager() to Database.java.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839
       (Werner - 20050110)

XML:   Fixed recent issue where Element#getType() method was always
       returning null for element references. Also added automatic resolution of
       default and fixed values for references.
       (kvisco - 20050110)

XML:   Fixed bug 1372: Mapping.loadMapping(String) duplicates directory
       path. Fixed problem by making the given url a relative URL
       so that the document base isn't duplicated.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372
       (kvisco - 20041217)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1827 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Fixed a problem related to dropping a table that does not exist in src/tests/jdo/mysql.sql.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1827
       (Werner - 20041217)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1676 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner DOT guttmann @ gmx DOT net]
       Added support for lazy-loading 1:1 relations.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1676
       (Werner - 20041215)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1815 using contribution from Patrick vanKann [patrick.vankann@cookie-fortune.com]
       Improved exception handling wrt to global transations.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815
       (Werner - 20041215)

XML:   Fixed typo with null check during validation code in
       XMLClassDescriptorImpl
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560
       (kvisco - 20041214)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1725 using contribution from bonevich@umich.edu
       Changed the attribute definition of 'name' of key-gerator in mapping.dtd.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1725
       (Werner - 20041214)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1768 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       'Overloaded' JDO-CTF test jdo.Size with oracle-specific implementation.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1768
       (Werner - 20041214)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1812 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday]
       Fixed various problems related to ClassLoader usage.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1812
       (Werner - 20041214)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1793 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Changed SimpleQueryExecutor to reuse the current JDBC Connection, fixing
       visibility issues.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1793
       (Werner - 20041213)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1816 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixed problem with double quotes in table names (sequence key generator).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1816
       (Werner - 20041211)

XML:   Added some additional support for nillable fields. There is still
       some more work needed in this area, but this gets us closer.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1723
       (kvisco - 20041210)

XML:   Added initial support to suppress namespaces during Marshalling. This
       has been a long asked for feature, so I figured it was about time I
       finally got around to doing this.
       (kvisco - 20041210)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1317 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixed problem in properly dealing with postgreSQL quotations, preventing
       users of postgreSQL to use the product with schemas.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317
       (Werner - 20041208)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1789 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixed various problems with the HTML docs (typos, structure, content, etc.).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789
       (Werner - 20041205)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1814 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixed a problem parsing OQL WHERE clauses containing string or character constants
       including a question mark character.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
       (Werner - 20041204)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1777 using contribution from Patrick vanKann [patrick.vankann@cookie-fortune.com]
       Status property of Castor's TransactionContext set correctly in global transactions.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777
       (Werner - 20041203)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1785 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Adds configuration of JDO using an inline JDBC DataSource by providing
       configuration parameters using a Properties collection
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1785
       (Werner - 20041129)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1791 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added support for using constants in comparison expressions with bind values.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791
       (Werner - 20041129)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1804 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Castor JDO test suite now uses log level "error" by default.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1804
       (Werner - 20041127)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1795 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Fixed problem in CastorException (String, Throwable) where the constructor of the
       superclass was not called.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1795
       (Werner - 20041127)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1792 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Handling of SQL parameter binding and their order is now completely
       handled by SqlBindParser; all use of ParamInfo maps has been removed.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792
       (Werner - 20041127)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1784 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixed problem using JDOConfFactory with JDBC DataSources.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1784
       (Werner - 20041127)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1797 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Fixed problem with resetting the capacity of CountLimited cache (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExceptions).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1797
       (Werner - 20041127)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1774.
       Fixed problem with "sqltime" field type where it was incorrectly mapped to java.sql.Date
       rather than java.sql.Time.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1774
       (Werner - 20041126)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1788 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added support for SQL parameters as part of IN statements in WHERE clauses.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1788
       (Werner - 20041123)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1790 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added additional debug statements during binding of SQL parameters.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1790
       (Werner - 20041122)

XML:   Fixed bug 1718. Milliseconds are represented as 'long' in a Duration.
       (Arnaud - 20041111)

XML:   Fixed bug 1144 that was reopened.
       (Arnaud - 20041111)

XML:   Added support for namespace to package mappings on the Unmarshaller
       and UnmarshalHandler. This basically fixes issues where Castor
       can't find the right package to look for classes during
       unmarshalling. This is main for those people using generated
       source code, as using a mapping file you must specify the
       packages and namespaces appropriately.
       (kvisco - 20041104)

XML:   Fixed bug in SourceGenerator where class names for SimpleType
       instances with Enumeration facets were not getting resolved properly.
       (kvisco - 20041104)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1517.
       Added a new isCached() method to CacheManager.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517
       (Werner - 20041028)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1262 using contribution from Jack Warner [jack.warner@agedwards.com]
       Castor JDO now uses timezone information when reading date/timestamp/time
       data from the RDBMS.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1262
       (Werner - 20041020)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1767 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Updated src/tests/jdo/oracle.xml and src/tests/jdo/postgresql.xml to be in-line
       with new grammar.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767
       (Werner - 20041019)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1764 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Extends new SQL parameter binding code to SimpleQueryExecutor.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1764
       (Werner - 20041018)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1763.
       Improved exception handling in the persist.cache package, by ensuring proper exception
       chaining.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763
       (Werner - 20041013)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1628.
       Brought configuration of <data-source> in line with <driver>, switching
       from <params> to a sequence of <param> elements.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628
       (Werner - 20041011)

XML:   Added the Castor Ant Task and an Ant target to the build jar.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885
       (Bruce - 20041007)

All:   Fixed bug 1757 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added core/** package and children to castor-xml.jar.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757
       (Werner - 20041006)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1755 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Brought jdo-conf.dtd in-line with XML Schema instance, making <transaction-demarcation>
       required.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755
       (Werner - 20041006)

XML:   Fixed bug 1685, A StackOverflowError was occuring at certain times
       during container processing if the input XML was invalid.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1685
       (kvisco - 20041005)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1594 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added new JDO2.java, adding factory method for instantiation, removing public
       constructor, changing way of loading configuration.
       At the same time, JDO.java has been deprecated.
       (Werner - 20041005)

XML:   Fixed bug 1592: DecimalValidator was not taking into account a leading
       sign ('+' or '-').
       (kvisco - 20041004)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1435 using contribution from Matt Caswell [bugzilla.exolab.org@baggins.org]
       Fixed problem with finding add<FieldName>() method.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435
       (Werner - 20041004)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1616 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Framed <driver>, <data-source> and <jndi> elements in jdo-conf.xsd with an <xsd:choice> to
       indicate that at any time only one should be present.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1616
       (Werner - 20041002)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1752 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Re-anabled support for LIMIT clauses for MS SQL Server.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752
       (Werner - 20040928)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1221 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added support for LIMIT/OFFSET clauses for HSQL, and extended HSQL-specific test case.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221
       (Werner - 20041001)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1548 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Changed Log4J configuration to use XML file (log4j.xml).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548
       (Werner - 20040927)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1737 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Added support for registering TxSynchronizable instances via castor.properties.
       (Werner - 20041001)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1209 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Added a new converter boolean(true)->numeric(-1) to cover MS Access' way of storing
       boolean values.
       (Werner - 20040930)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1751 using contribution from Ralf Joachim [ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de]
       Added Castor JDO test TC20b to mySQL and sapdb categoeries (incl. additions to the
       SQL DDL).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751
       (Werner - 20040928)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1733 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added support for RDBMS-specific meta data in general. This is currently used
       within OracleQueryExpression to support the LIMIT clause implementation for
       Oracle 8.1.6 and above only.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1733
       (Werner - 20040927)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1732 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added support for LIMIT/OFFSET clauses for Oracle, and fixed problems with
       mySQL implementation (ordering of parameters).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732
       (Werner - 20040927)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1689 using contribution from Nick Stuart [nick@newtsplace.com]
       Added code to support is<FieldName>() methods for boolean properties in
       addition to standard getter.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689
       (Werner - 20040923)

XML:   Implemented a feature to cache included XML Schemas. This allow
       the user to share the same XML schema instance accross the Schema Object Model.
       (Arnaud - 20040920)

XML:   Implemented the support for Redefine in the Schema Object Model.
       (Arnaud - 20040920)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1655 using contribution from Dave Eccleston[deccles@mitre.org]
       Improved debug statements during create operations, showing the actual SQL generated
       with values bound.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1655
       (Werner - 200409017)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1713 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Fixed problem in FieldMolder when dealing with addXXX() methods on fields of
       type collection.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1713
       (Werner - 200409017)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1689 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       FieldMolder now looks for is<FieldName>() methods for boolean properties, in addition
       to standard get<FieldName>() methods.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689
       (Werner - 20040917)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1704 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Fixed problem with loading classes (resulting in IllegalArgumentException) by properly
       handling ClassNotFoundExceptions.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1704
       (Werner - 20040917)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1511 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Added functionality to clear/reset the database configuration.
       Added functionality to configure Castor JDO via an in-memory JDOConf instance
       (plus a factory class for creating JdoConf instances).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511
       (Werner - 20040917)

XML:   Checked in some patches, contributed by Marco Soeima, for xsi:nil
       support. xsi:nil support is not complete with these patches, but
       it was worth checking them in as it gets us closer to completion.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1723
       (kvisco - 20040916)


JDO:   Fixed bug 1507 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Fixed problem using the HighLowKeyGenerator with the same-connection
       attribute set to 'true'.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507
       (Werner - 20040915)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1635 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Provided a ptach to initialize array(s) with the correct size, rather than
       hardcoding the value '10'.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1635
       (Werner - 20040901)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1518 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no].
       Fixed problem with delayed removal of cache entries when deleting objects.
       (Werner - 20040902)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1445 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Added clearCache() method to CastorTestCase, and fixed a problem in test data setup in
       src/tests/jdo/OqlExtends.java
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445
       (Werner - 20040911)

XML:   Fixed bug 1666: UnmarshalState._markedList Vector is a performance
       bottleneck. Applied patch from David Thal which replaces the
       Vector with a HashSet.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666
       (kvisco - 20040910)

XML:   Fixed bug 1658: Handling of whitespace is never preserved for
       container objects. Applied patch from Chris Giordano which
       basically inherits the whitespace preserving state from
       the parent UnmarshalState.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658
       (kvisco - 20040910)

XML:   Fixed bug 1634: Whitespace handling while unmarshalling is flawed.
       Updated the whitespace handling logic in UnmarshalHandler#characters
       method and checked in a test case.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634
       (kvisco - 20040910)

XML:   Updated the Marshaller to use ContentHandler directly instead
       of wrapping in a ParserAdapter. Users Marshalling to a
       ContentHandler should see a significant speed up when
       Marshalling.
       (kvisco - 20040910)

XML:   Fixed a bug in the Marshaller with the xsi:type logic not being
       strict enough. Sometimes the Marshaller was not adding xsi:type
       when it was needed. I've modified this logic a bit to make it
       output xsi:type more often in order to preserve round tripping.
       (kvisco - 20040910)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1727.
       Added DB2-specifc support for the OQL LIMIT clause.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727
       (Werner - 20040909)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1720.
       In the case a RDBMS does not support the LIMIT/OFFSET clauses, a
       SyntaxNotSupportedException is thrown.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720
       (Werner - 20040909)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1595 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Added CacheManager (and DatabaseImpl.getCacheManager() method) to allow users
       to selectively flush the Castor performance cache(s).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595
       (Werner - 20040906)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1722 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Moved CastorException to org.exolab.castore.core.exceptions. In addition, PersistenceException
       now derives from CastorException.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722
       (Werner - 20040901)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1696 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixed NPE in SQL CALL statements with master/detail relation.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696
       (Werner - 20040817)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1714 using contribution from Gregory Block [gblock@ctoforaday.com]
       Added log statement to identfy problems with missing collection.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1714
       (Werner - 20040817)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1708 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Added (general JDO) Utils class.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1708
       (Werner - 20040817)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1221. Added the ability to specify an OFFSET clause
       with LIMIT clauses with contribution from Lance Lavandowska
       [lance@aptura.com]. This patch provides support for postgreSQL,
       mySQL and HSQL only.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221
       (Werner - 20040812)

JDO:   Added example to src/examples/MappingTool to demonstrate the use of the
       MappingTool.
       (Werner - 20040811)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1677 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Updated list of available mapping types.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677
       (Werner - 20040811)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1700 using contribution from unknown [weitz@zimmerverpackungen.com]
       Fixed problem with 'select count(*) ...' statement with HSQL.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1700
       (Werner - 20040805)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1690.
       Improved exception handling for the transactionmanager package.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690
       (Werner - 20040806)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1709 using contribution from Donnie Armstrong. [donnie@attempt4.com]
       Added new TransactionManagerFactory for IBM WebSphere 5.1.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709
       (Werner - 20040806)

XML:   Fixed bug 1706 - No support for XDoclet tags in Source Generator
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1706
       (Bruce - 20040804)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1705 - DuplicateIdentityExceptions not reported correctly
       when using PostgreSQL.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1705
       (Bruce - 20040804)

XML:   Fixed bug 1560 by adding some additional checks for null
       in the XMLClassDescriptorImpl.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560
       (kvisco - 20040729)

XML:   Updated the Unmarshaller to make sure it gets the ClassLoader
       from the passed in class if no user specific loader has been
       specified.
       (kvisco - 20040729)

XML:   Fixed bug with FieldHandlerFactory support in introspector by
       making sure the the type specified by the FieldHandler
       replaces that of the introspection. This allows primitives
       to be correctly handled by the custom FieldHandler.
       (kvisco - 20040720)

XML:   Fixed java.util.Set support in the introspector.
       (kvisco - 20040713)

XML:   Fixed bug 1683 so that the Source Generator better supports XDoclet
       tags in an XSD.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683
       (Bruce - 20040711)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1508 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Refactored code, applying strategy pattern.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508
       (Werner - 20040629)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1651 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added XML prefixes to various files in src/examples and src/tests/jdo.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651
       (Werner - 20040607)

XML:   Fixed a cyclic include bug with the IncludeUnmarshaller, added
       some code to make sure the main schema couldn't include itself.
       (kvisco - 20040624)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1445 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Fixed various small problems with SQL DDLs in src/tests/jdo.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445
       (Werner - 20040607)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1648 using contribution from Nick Stuart [nick@newtsplace.com]
       Added code to extend the message generated for ObjectModifiedExceptions.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648
       (Werner - 20040607)

XML:   Fixed bug 1524: Stack Overflow when container elements occur in
       instance document. The problem was primarily due to the
       MarshalFramework#searchInheritence method which was allowing
       the ClassDescriptors for schema groups to be searched.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524
       (kvisco - 20040608)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1402 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Added code to handle extend relationships where no additional fields are added. For such cases,
       no STORE SQL statement will be generated (and used).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402
       (Werner - 20040607)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1641 using contribution from Werner Guttmann [werner.guttmann@gmx.net]
       Upgraded JUnit to version 3.8.1.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641
       (Werner - 20040607)

XML:   Fixed bug 1633 XML Date Timezone Not unmarshalled correctly.
       Patch from axia@sonusnet.com.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633
       (kvisco - 20040527)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1067 using contribution from unkown.
       Fixed a problem with class loading in various places of ParamInfo by passing
       a ClassLoader instance during instantiatin.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067
       (Werner - 20040526)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1617 using contribution from Patrick vanKann [patrick.vankann@cookie-fortune.com]
       Fixed an incorrectly coded equality check related to global transaction demarcation.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617
       (Werner - 20040516)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1534.
       Added code to allow users to use their own cache implementation with Castor.
       In general, available cache implementations are now specified in castor.properties.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534
       (Werner - 20040513)

XML:   Fix for bug 1632. StringValidator.normalize wasn't handling empty
       strings properly. Patch from Ulli Hafner.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632
       (kvisco - 20040511)

XML:   Performance change to org.exolab.castor.util.List to demand create internal Object[]
       From various performance improvements contributed by Ian Richards (also CODA)
       (afawcett - 20040510)

XML:   One fix and various minor enhancements to classes in 'javasource' package.
       (afawcett - 20040510)

XML:   Performance enhancement to AnyNode2SAX.java (use when processing xsd:any elements)
       from various performance improvements contributed by Ian Richards (also CODA)
       (afawcett - 20040508)

XML:   Fixed bug 1506 - Enhancement for EnumeratedTypeAccess interface
       using patch contributed by Robert La Ferla.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506
       (kvisco - 20040505)

ALL:   Reworked the mailing list guidelines. Added various sections re: cross-posting, etc.
       (Werner - 20040502)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1605 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Brought test setup for SAP DB in-line with test requirements.
       (Werner - 20040429)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1605 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Brought test config file for SAP DB in-line with XML Schema.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1605
       (Werner - 20040429)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1368 using contribution from Tim O'Brien [tobrien@discursive.com].
       Small (mostly syntactical) changes to src/doc/jdo-faq.xml. Added a reference
       to XPath as well.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368
       (Werner - 20040428)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1607 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Added test for IdentityKeyGenerator to SAP DB test suite.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607
       (Werner - 20040428)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1092 using contribution from Rhett Sutphin [rhett-sutphin@uiowa.edu].
       Fixed default namespace declaration, changed some small syntax issues.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1092
       (Werner - 20040427)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1606 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Fixed problem with incorrectly quoting non-function names for SAP DB.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606
       (Werner - 20040427)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1607 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Added support for SAB DB to IdentityKeyGenerator.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607
       (Werner - 20040427)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1605 using contribution from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Fixed various problems related to the setup of JDO test data with SAP DB.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1605
       (Werner - 20040427)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1615 using contribution from frric@wmdata.com [frric@wmdata.com]
       Fixed a typo in a debug statement (wrong message resource key used).
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615
       (Werner - 20040426)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1601 using contribution from Tomasz Piontek [piontek@man.poznan.pl]
       Added code to support org.exolab.castor.types.Duration as a native type
       in Castor JDO. Added convertors for type conversion org.exolab.castor.types.Duration
       <--> java.lang.Long.
       (Werner - 20040421)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1554 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       Fixes a memory leak with the linked-list implementation by removing LinkedList
       completely; uses the Hashtable directly, resulting in much better performance.
       ValuesEnumeration no longer use a Vector, but intercepts the initial
       enumeration to provide the values.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554
       (Werner - 20040420)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1597 using patch from Emir Causevic [emirc@gawab.com]
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597
       (Bruce - 20040408)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1588.
       Introduces various checks and additional exception handling wrt to using TimeStampables.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588
       (Werner - 20040406)

ALL:   Fixed bug 1585 adding separate build folders for src/tests and src/examples
       to the Eclipse project files
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585
       (Werner - 20040330)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1573 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       This improves code quality for the complete jdo package (except conf.*)
       by removing unused import statements and local variables.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573
       (Werner - 20040330)

ALL:   Fixed bug 1568 using contribution from jpinto@inescporto.pt [Joćo Luis Pinto].
       Streamlines Eclipse related project files.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568
       (Werner - 20040319)

JDO:   Added many enhancements to the tx mgr API including code improvements,
       jdo-conf.xsd changes, dynamic code generation using Castor XML as well
       as a refactored Ant build descriptor all from both myself and Werner.
       (Bruce - 20040323)

ALL:   Fixed bug 1563 using a patch from Keith
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563
       (Bruce - 20040323)

ALL:   Fixed bug 1566 using contribution from jpinto@inescporto.pt [Joćo Luis Pinto].
       Updates Eclipse related project files.
       Details: http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566
       (Werner - 20040319)

Version 0.9.5.3, March 09, 2004
-------------------------------

XML:   Fixed bug with new HashMap handling when dealing with
       references.
       (kvisco - 20040308)

XML:   Added behavior change in Mapping files...field mappings
       now use parent namespace by default to help ease the
       pain of writing mapping files.
       (kvisco - 20040307)

XML:   Added patch to prevent introspection of transient fields
       or static final fields.
       (kvisco - 20040305)

XML:   Updated unmarshalling to handle xml:space attribute.
       Whitespace preserving + stripping can now be controlled
       via the Unmarshaller#setWhitespacePreserve method.
       (kvisco - 20040301)

XML:   Fixed Bug 1539 Getting java.lang.IllegalStateException:
       Invalid dateTime format
       (kvisco - 20040301)

XML:   Added Marshaller patch that fixes container attribute
       processing for items in collection. Fixes an
       IllegalArgumentException
       Patch from Balaji Adikesavelu
       (kvisco - 20040223)

XML:   Added minor enhancement to generated source for boolean
       types to prevent unecessary creation of Boolean instances.
       Enhancement request 1527.
       (kvisco - 20040222)

XML:   Fixed stack overflow with cyclic mapping imports.
       (kvisco - 20040222)

XML:   Removed dependency on Apache Commons Logger for Castor XML,
       this will become a dependency again in Castor 0.9.6.
       (kvisco - 20040222)

XML:   Prevented warning about name conficts from being printed if the
       -f flag is being used.
       (kvisco - 20040221)

XML:   Fixed SourceGenerator warning with simpleTypes conflicting with
       element names.
       (kvisco - 20040221)

XML:   Fixed bug 1541, a regression which was causing an endless
       loop and source code that was uncompilable.
       (kvisco - 20040221)

XML:   Patch for bug 1474 SchemaWriter assigns wrong
       namespace to base complexType.
       Patch from Jackie Paradis
       (kvisco - 20040216)

XML:   Patch for bug 1461 JakartaRegExpEvaluator issue
       Patch from Johan Van vlerken.
       (kvisco - 20040213)

XML:   Fixed bug 1475 - removed check for DocumentHandler (which
       prevented wrapping in a ParserAdapter)
       (kvisco - 20040213)

XML:   Patch for bug 1449 - Configuration.loadProperties throws
       SecurityException when running under app-server.
       Patch from Joakim Ohlrogge.
       (kvisco - 20040213)

XML:   Patch for bug 1471 - unspecified type causing uncompilable source
       (kvisco - 20040213)

XML:   Fixed bug 1272 - Uncompilable code with boundproperties
       Patch from Brett Randall and Peter Lin
       (kvisco - 20040213)


XML:   Fix for bug 1245: Nicer variable names for typesafe enumerations
       from Source Generator. Patch from Rhett Sutphin.
       (kvisco - 20040213)

XML:   Fixed bug 1530 by adding readResolve method when generating enumerations
       to handle deserialization issues. Patch contributed by Thomas De Smedt
       (kvisco - 20040213)

XML:   Patch to prevent duplicate simpleType class generation. This was causing
       unnecessary warnings during source code generation.
       (kvisco - 20040213)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1514 adding Eclipse related project files.
       Added new Ant target 'prepare-eclipse' to copy Eclipse-specific project files
       to the base directory.
       (Werner - 20040212)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1521 refactoring the performance cache code.
       This introduces a new interface (Cache.java) which all existing cache
       implementations implement. This lays the foundation for many additions
       as noted in the bug report.
       (Werner - 20040210)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1462 using contribution from Christoph Ernst [christoph.ernst@dit.de]
       Fixes a problem with SQL type conversions between java.sql.Timestamp and
       java.util.Date and vice versa. Additionally, this fixes a couple of problems
       with the use of various resource entries (jdo.store, etc.) and generally
       improved code quality by removing unused import statements and local
       variables.
       (Werner - 20040206)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1522 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no].
       Removed deprecated and unused methods from Database.java and
       DatabaseImpl.java.
       (Werner - 20040205)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1499 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no].
       DatabaseImpl.finalize() now outputs a warning if the instance about to be
       garbage-collected still has valid scope. In addition, improves code
       quality in DatabaseImpl.java by removing unused import statements and
       local variables.
       (Werner - 20040124)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1417 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no].
       Added missing entry for resource string "persist.missingEnd" to
       messages.properties.
       (Werner - 20040129)

ALL:   Fixed bug when using extends of a class from an included mapping.
       (kvisco - 20040128)


XML:   Fixed bug 1477: Use of fixed value elements fails in choice blocks
       (kvisco - 20040122)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1500 using contribution from Martin Fuchs [martin-fuchs@gmx.net]
       Fixes a problem with dereferencing members of Complex that are set to null.
       (Werner - 20040122)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1498 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       This patch improves performance by checking Log.isDebugEnabled() when using
       Log.debug() statements.
       (Werner - 20040119)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1495 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       This improves code quality in the jdo.drivers package by removing
       unused import statements and local variables.
       (Werner - 20040119)

XML:   bind-xml now allows nesting a class mapping to enable the user
       to map a specific class differently in different situations.
       (kvisco - 20040109)

XML:   Fix for bug 1439 (improves Hashtable / Map handling)
       (kvisco - 20040109)

XML:   Fix bug where wrong field descriptor may be returned if the class
       descriptor also supports wildcards.
       (kvisco - 20040108)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1493 using contribution from Stein M. Hugubakken [dulci@start.no]
       This patch improves code quality in the jdo.engine package by removing
       unnecessary import statements in various classes.
       (Werner - 20040118)

XML:   Patch to make sure cyclic imports/includes on the primary schema
       don't occur.
       (kvisco - 20031216)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1484 as noted by Jon Revie [revie@rhinointernet.com]
       (Bruce - 20031210)

XML:   Fix for handling built-in attributes such as xml:lang and xml:base
       for XML mapping files.
       (kvisco - 20031208)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1473 as noted by Jon Revie [revie@rhinointernet.com]
       (Bruce - 20031206)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1472 as noted by Jon Revie [revie@rhinointernet.com]
       (Bruce - 20031206)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1466 as noted by [arthurb@cs.uu.nl].
       (Bruce - 20031203)

JDO:   Fixed the SQLTypes TypeConverters so that each anonymous method
       that calls a getter that wraps DateFormat et al. only does so
       once.
       (Bruce - 20031124)

XML:   Improved class name conflict detection and reporting
       (kvisco - 20031119)

XML:   Fix for incorrect descriptor generation for groups that contain
       only optional elements
       (kvisco - 20031118)

XML:   Added error notification when unresolved references occur during
       unmarshalling.
       (kvisco - 20031117)

JDO:   Switched the logging mechanism in Castor over to use Jakarta Commons
       Logging with Log4J as the default logging package.
       (Bruce - 20031110)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1391 using contribution from xgard@gmx.de.
       (Bruce - 20031110)

JDO:   Fixed bug 1452 as noted by Marc Guillemot[mguillemot@yahoo.fr].
       (Bruce - 20031110)

XML:   Fix for bug 1423 (EnumFieldHandler can't handle nillable element).
       Applied Stephane Pelchat's patch [stephane (at) ofoto.com]
       (kvisco - 20031110)

XML:   Improved the error messages for the FieldValidator to use the
       xmlName + fieldName to make the message more intuitive.
       (kvisco - 20031110)

XML:   Added basic support for xs:token (treated as a string)
       (kvisco - 20031110)

XML:   Fix for bug 1422: DateFieldHandler can't handle nullable elements
       Patch from Paul Spencer and Stephane Pelchat.
       (kvisco - 20031029)

XML:   Added support for FieldHandlerFactory, which allows using
       custom GeneralizedFieldHandler instances per type
       without having to specify them on a per-field basis in the
       mapping file. Currently this must be set through the
       Introspector, but an easier configuration will be available
       in a future release.
       (kvisco - 20031023)

XML:   Add a new option in the CTF to allow dynamic configuration
       of the marshalling framework by using the java reflection.
       (Arnaud - 20031017)

XML:   Fix attribute processing when marshalling an AnyNode.
       Namespace handling was not enabled
       (Arnaud - 20031016)

XML:   Enhance SAX2ANY to be compliant with the use of XML Reader.
       (Arnaud - 20031016)

XML:   Improvements to the CTF (better error reporting)
       (Arnaud - 20031015)

XML:   Fixed xsi:type bug when xsi:type appears on the root element.
       (kvisco - 20031010)

XML:   Fix for 'xml' prefix cannot be declared exception when using
       Xerces 2.x, when using SAX 2.0.
       (kvisco - 20031010)

XML:   Added the Source Generator command-line option
       '-generateImportedSchemas' that lets you specify
       the automatic generation of Java for imported XML Schemas.
       (Arnaud - 20031010)

XML:   Fix for unmarshalling primitives as root elements.
       (kvisco - 20031003)

XML:   Updated FieldValidator to prevent validation of transient fields.
       (kvisco - 20031003)


Version 0.9.5.2, September 28, 2003
-----------------------------------

XML:   Some Unmarshalling performance improvements.
       (kvisco - 20030927)

XML:   Added SchemaReader#setErrorHandler method. Patch provided
       by Nick Betteridge.
       (kvisco - 20030925)

XML:   Updated to use XMLReader instead of SAX Parser by
       default.
       (kvisco - 20030925)

XML:   Added direct support for SAX 2 ContentHandler in the
       UnmarshalHandler.
       (kvisco - 20030925)

XML:   Added SimpleType#removeFacets method. Patch provided
       by Nick Betteridge.
       (kvisco - 20030925)

XML:   Fixed NullPointerException when trying to marshal a
       Vector as the root object.
       (kvisco - 20030923)

XML:   Fix for bug 1322, this is an improved patch for handling
       primitives in the XMLFieldDescriptorImpl#canAccept method.
       Proposed patch from Alan Coleman.
       (kvisco - 20030923)

XML:   Fix for bug 1407, make sure namespace/package mapping is
       properly set. This fixes the improper include of the "types" package,
       missing the remainder of the package name.
       (kvisco - 20030919)


XML:   Fix for location paths that contain two or more ancestor paths.
       Fix provided by Scott Schenksj.
       (kvisco - 20030918)


Version 0.9.5.1, September 16, 2003
-----------------------------------

XML:    Fix for bug 1314, make sure we use LocalConfiguration to return
        the proper XMLNaming instance.
        (kvisco - 20030912)

XML:    Fixed static properties issue when calling the SourceGenerator#main
        method multiple times from another program (instead of on the command
        line).
        (kvisco - 20030912)

XML:    Fix for bug 1396, updated LocalConfiguration to make sure that
        the local properties are used instead of the default properties
        when loading SAX parser features.
        (kvisco - 20030909)

XML:    Fixed issue with wildcard introspection; removed an errant "break"
        statement in the XMLClassDescriptorImpl which was causing the
        wildcard descriptor to get in the way of a potential exact match.
        Patch from Dan Christopherson.
        (kvisco - 20030822)


JDO:    Fixed bug 1376: Accessing the javax.sql.DataSource object from a
        DatabaseRegistry instance
        (bruce - 20030807)

XML:    Updated XMLInstance2Schema to handle empty elements that contain
        attributes. The attributes were previously being ignored.
        (kvisco - 20030730)

XML:    Fixed issue when using default XML namespace for special XML
        attributes, such as xml:lang, and xml:base, etc.
        (kvisco - 20030730)

XML:    Fixed issue with unmarshalling namespace nodes that have the same
        namespace URI as an existing locally declared namespace URI.
        (kvisco - 20030725)

JDO:    Fixed bug 1355: SAP DB will not execute a function that is quoted.
        (bruce - 20030710)

XML:    Fix for default wildcard namespace when reading an XML Schema.
        (kvisco and Tom Murray - 20030703)

XML:    Added support for "merged" locations. If two or more "consecutive" fields
        in a class mapping refer to the same "location" they will be now be
        merged under the same element instead of creating a new element.
        Currently there is no way to specify separate elements (unless you place
        a different field mapping in-between the specified field mappings).
        (kvisco - 20030625)

XML:    Fixed bug 1334: Incorrect unmarshalling using same name, but different "location".
        (kvisco - 20030625)

XML:    Fixed bug 1333: <bind-xml> location attribute does not always work.
        This issue had to due with not marshalling attribute fields that use
        the bind-xml location attribute if no element fields used that same
        location.
        (kvisco - 20030625)

JDO:    Integrated API enhancement to support cache flushing/eviction from
        Vince Adamo [vadamo@vignette.com]. See bug 1091 for details.

JDO:    Fixed bug 1107. Actually this was fixed in version 0.9.5 by bug 1313
        (Bruce - 20030610)

Version 0.9.5, June 03, 2003
----------------------------

XML:    Fixed bug 1319: Incorrect Java inheritance generated by castorBuilder
        with extended complex types in choices. Patch submitted by Alan
        Coleman.
        (kvisco - 20030603)

XML:    Clear the <package> implementation in the binding file and fix bug
        regarding <namingXML>
        (Arnaud - 20030602)

XML:    Fixed some issues with UTC offsets with DateFieldHandler when
        timezone had zero offset from UTC during daylight savings.
        patch prodived by Phil Pinel.
        (kvisco - 20030529)

XML:    Fixed code generation for nested groups that can occur more than once and that
        are the only particle of the group.
        (Arnaud - 20030523)

JDO:    Fixed bug 1313: Default capacity on count-limited cache type is 30 not 100
        Fix noted by Stein M. Eliassen <stein.m.eliassen@start.no>
        (Bruce - 20030516)

XML:    Fixed bug 1279: Castor should be JAXP-enabled. I added initial
        JAXP support. To use a JAXP parser instead of Xerces, modify
        the castor.properties file and set the "org.exolab.castor.parser"
        property to empty as such: org.exolab.castor.parser=
        (kvisco - 20030501)

XML:    Fixed bug 1301: UTC offsets are not output by default. Initial
        patch contributed by Leif Oines. Some changes by myself to remove
        use of SimpleDateFormat.
        (kvisco - 20030428)

XML:    Fixed bug 1300: UTC offset calculations do not account for Daylight
        Saving time. Initial patch contributed by Leif Oines. Some changes
        by myself to remove use of SimpleDateFormat.
        (kvisco - 20030428)

XML:    Fixed issue with mapping multiple elements with the same name but
        different namespace to separate fields.
        (kvisco - 20030423)

XML:    Added support for constructor arguments for attribute mapped fields.
        Information will be added to the documentation soon. See bug 1177
        [http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177] for more information.
        (kvisco - 20030422)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1261 and 1253 : In case of CALL SQL binding param inside parens results adds extra paren
        (Mickael - 20030415)

JDO:    Fixed bug 1290: Possible bug in object value rollback of primitive types.
        (Bruce - 20030413)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1106 : JDO mapping with collection="array" does not work
        (Mickael - 20030325)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1045 : date->char[yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss] parameterized type not supported
        (Mickael - 20030325)

XML:    Added initial support for wrapper elements, which are now supported
        via the bind-xml "location" attribute. More information will be
        available in the docs, hopefully soon.
        (kvisco - 20030313)

XML:    Applied Edwin Dankert's patch to DatatypeHandler (used by the
        XMLInstance2Schema tool) to support empty string values.
        (kvisco - 20030312)

XML:    Fixed Bug 1232: The facet 'MinInclusive' was not handle properly for decimal
        datatype.
        (Arnaud - 20030225)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1165 : Castor closes connections too early with global transactions
        (Mickael - 20030221)



Version 0.9.4.3, February 12, 2003
----------------------------------

XML:    Fixed the handling of include in the binding file. Problem reported
        by Brett Ramdeen [bramdeen@certapay.com]
        (Arnaud - 20030210)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1151 : Use Complex primary key crashed
        (Mickael - 20030207)

XML:    Fixed issue when processing the annotations of element and attribute
        references for creating Javadoc. If local annoations do not exist,
        then the annotations from the referenced declaration is used.
        (kvisco - 20030206)

XML:    Fixed bug 1195: support for unbounded XML Schema int types was broken.
        (Arnaud - 20030205)

XML:    Source Generator: The '-type' command line parameter now allows a fully
        qualified class name as an input. This class must extend FieldInfoFactory.
        (Arnaud - 20030205)

XML:    Fixed issue with attribute references and AttributeDecl#getUse()
        incorrectly following the reference to obtain the value from the
        referenced AttributeDecl. Attribute references specify the "use"
        value, top-level elements do not.
        (kvisco - 20030204)

XML:    Fixed bug #1193: Decimal validation was not handling correctly min/maxExclusive.
        Reported by ahoeltje@extensity.com
        (Arnaud - 20030203)

XML:    Fixed bug #1180: URIResolver wasn't resolving correctly the relative paths.
        Patch submitted by Erik Ostermueller.
        (Arnaud - 20030203)

XML:    Fixed issue with AttributeDecl#getName not returning an NCName.
        Added AttributeDecl#getReferenceName to return the full QName.
        Also added ElementDecl#getReferenceName.
        (kvisco - 20030129)

XML:    Fixed bug #1182: Schema with no targetNamespace is producing
        incorrect package information for member variables of enumerated
        types. Reported by [bryan@skyauction.com].
        (kvisco - 20030124)

XML:    Added new options in the CTF XML to specify a binding file and to allow
        the processing of several XML Schemas. Regenerate the CTF object model.
        (Arnaud - 20030119)

JDO:    Fixed bug #1184 Unprotected call to potentially null object
        report by Graham Bygrave [Graham.Bygrave@BarclaysGlobal.com]
        (Bruce - 20030122)

XML:    Improved DateFieldHandler parsing routines. Removed the use
        of SimpleDateFormat.
        (kvisco - 20030119)

Version 0.9.4.2  January 16, 2003
----------------------------------

JDO:    Added contribution from Thomas Olausson <thomas.olausson@home.se> to
        fix DB2 identity columns.
        (Bruce - 20030114)

XML:    Added some initial support for xsd:list of xsd:QName
        (kvisco - 20030113)

XML:    Fixed bug 1115 : Arrays marshalled from Vector are unmarshalled as Vectors
        (kvisco - 20030113)

XML:    Added support for JavaNaming conventions to be configured to be
        backward compatible with Castor 0.9.3.9
        (kvisco - 20030111)

XML:    Fixed bug 1169 : Error 'schema.noBuiltInParent' when constructing a
        derivation of a simple type that is a 'list'. Patch provided by
        Gilles Gaillard.
        (kvisco - 20030111)

XML:    Fixed bug 1167 : getElement wasn't always returning after correct element
        was found. Patch from Gilles Gaillard.
        (kvisco - 20030111)

XML:    Fixed bug 976 : enums from imported schemas cause compile error
        (kvisco - 20030109)

XML:    Fixed bug 1138 : Wrong namespaces in generated code
        (kvisco - 20030109)

XML:    Fixed bug 1174 : Generated code for primitive fields and bound properties
        is incorrect
        (kvisco - 20030109)

XML:    Fixed enh 1166: Added support for has-method specification in the
        mapping file.
        (kvisco - 20030108)

XML:    Fixed bug 1077 : Bad handling of enumerated attributes from namespaces
        different than element
        (kvisco - 20030108)

XML:    Added support to the SourceGenerator for reading the nspackages property
        from the castor.properties instead of only castorbuilder.properties
        (kvisco - 20030108)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1022 : Trouble with deleted items in RelationCollection$IteratorImp
        (Mickael - 20030102)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1020 : Rollback of a transaction duplicates the contents of a container
        (Mickael - 20021231)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 985 : High/Low key generator problem in multi DB environment
        Applied patch provided by Stephane Verlet [stephane@mminternet.com].
        (Mickael - 20021231)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 979 : Reuse of RelationCollection
        Applied patch provided by Martin Renner [m.renner@exxcellent.de].
        (Mickael - 20021230)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1163 : Lock conflict when loading an object present in the cache
        (Mickael - 20021227)

XML:    Fixed bug 960: Using enumeration in a restriction of <simpleContent> was producing
        code that couldn't compile. This lead to modify the behavior of the Source Generator not
        to extend classes that are representing a simpleContent restriction.
        (Arnaud - 20021223)

XML:    Removed mapping.xsd_sg!! With the introduction of the binding file code this
        was no longer needed since a binding file can be used. Added mapping-binding.xml
        contributed by Rhett Sutphin! Talk about a fast learner, Rhett became an
        expert with binding files only a few hours after the feature was checked into CVS!
        (kvisco - 20021221)

XML:    Fixed bug 1049: the reading and writing of restriction under a simpleContent
        element was not handle properly.
        (Arnaud - 20021220)

XML:    Fixed bug 1139: the minimum allowed size of a list was not set when using
        Java 2 collections in the Source Generator.
        (Arnaud - 20021220)

XML:    Fixed bug 1117: the generated descriptors now refer to Castor classes by using
        the fully qualified name. This prevent from naming collision when one is using
        Castor class names in an XML Schema
        (Arnaud - 20021220)

XML:    Fixed bug 1146: generated validation code was not correct for the XML Schema
        datatypes 'normalizedString'.
        (Arnaud - 20021212)

XML:    Fixed bug 1143: element reference, attribute reference, group reference
        were not handle correctly when resolving the package in which to generate
        the classes.
        (Arnaud - 20021212)

XML:    Checked in changes to javasource package for supporting inner classes.
        These changes include some long-standing contributions from Gary Shea
        and Martin Skopp. Much thanks to both for their contributions and
        their *extreme* patience with me.
        (kvisco - 20021212)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1030 : OQL query with timestamp comparison fail
        into lexer, also updated doc
        reported by Boris Boucher [boris@vibes.net]
        (Mickael - 20021210)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1055 : SapDbQueryExpression has a problem,
        reported by Clóvis Wichoski
        (Mickael - 20021210)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 944 : mapping filename not relative to correct directory
        (Mickael - 20021210)

JDO:    Fixed bug #1111: Loading of LOBs
        (Bruce - 20021209)

JDO:    Fixed bug #1086: HIGH/LOW key-generator name does not pass validation
        (Bruce - 20021206)

Misc:   Updated the Ant build descriptor to properly construct
        the CLASSPATH for use without the build script, added the
        ability to override properties via a file in ${user.home} named
        castor-build.properties as well as an echo statement if this file
        is found, also added description to all targets for use with
        Ant's -projecthelp option. Some of these changes were provided
        by Michael Beauregard [michael_beauregard@transcanada.com]
        (Bruce - 20021206)

XML:    Made some changes to the configuration code. Added LocalConfiguration.java
        to handle loading the Configuration. Can now distinguish between jar
        defaults and local defaults. More work needs to be done with respect to
        Configuration, but this was the first step.
        (kvisco - 20021206)

XML:    Added support for ValidationContext in TypeValidator and FieldValidator,
        Sorry if this causes any issues with people who have written custom
        validators, but the ValidationContext will allow future changes without
        causing additional heartache.
        (kvisco - 20021205)


JDO:    Fixed Bug 1109 : Time limited cache is expiring too fast
        (Mickael - 20021205)

XML:    Fixed bug 1105: wrong validation code generated for xsd:float.
        (Arnaud - 20021203)

XML:    Fixed bug 1050: use fully qualified imports in the generated sources.
        (Arnaud - 20021203)

XML:    Fixed bug 1001: wrong wrapper types used in the generated functions.
        (Arnaud - 20021203)

XML:    Fixed bug 1078: cyclic inheritence in the generated sources.
        (Arnaud - 20021203)

XML:    Fixed bug 973: name collision with reserved SourceGenerator keywords.
        (Arnaud - 20021203)

XML:    Fixed bug 1096: Duration was not handling properly milliseconds.
        Applied patch provided by Dick Lieber [rlieber@spss.com].
        (Arnaud - 20021203)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 942 : Transient fields fail to load in mapping
        (Mickael - 20021203)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 980 : PreparedStatement not closed in SQLEngine.delete
        (Mickael - 20021203)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 935 : Empty <sql/> elements in mapping.xml file
        cause NullPointerException
        (Mickael - 20021129)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 997 : Exception during db.rollback() when db.update() fails
        (Mickael - 20021129)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1119 : All table and field names converted to upper case
        when using SAP DB
        (Mickael - 20021129)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 974 : JDO inheritance and cache conflict
        (Mickael - 20021128)

XML:    Integrated the Binding File. See bug 882 for more details.
        (Arnaud - 20021128)

JDO:    Fixed Bug #1046: rollback() destroys lazily loaded collections, thanks
        to Martin Renner [m.renner@exxcellent.de].
        (Bruce - 20021126)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 891 : OQL CALL SQL fails with paren in WHERE clause,
        should also fix Bug 1042, added CallSql test case
        (Mickael - 20021122)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 830 : OQLQueryImpl.finalize() method is unsafe
        (Mickael - 20021120)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 1114 : stack overflow bug with circular references
        (Mickael - 20021119)

XML:    Fixed bug 1110 : Regression in 0.9.4 when field type is an interface
        (Mickael - 20021114)

JDO:    Fixed Bug #1066 - OQL Bug and Patch: Non-ASCII characters in OQL queries
        (Mickael - 20021114)

JDO:    Fix for TC20 failure with mysql :
        Timestamp precision loss after conversion to BigDecimal
        (Mickael - 20021114)

XML:    Added the '-printStack' command line option for the CTF XML. This option
        allows to dump the stack trace on the System.out when an exception occurs
        during the tests.
        (Arnaud - 20021112)

Version 0.9.4.1  November 04, 2002
----------------------------------

XML:    Some performance improvements in the marshalling/unmarshalling
        framework.
        (kvisco - 20021103)


XML:    Integrated the GeneralizedFieldHanlder, to enable generic
        FieldHandler's for a specific class type.
        (kvisco - 20021031)

XML:    Fixed Schema reader error when an given namespace URI is mapped
        to mulitple prefixes.
        (kvisco - 20021030)

XML:    Fixed NullPointerException when using the ignore extra elements
        feature.
        (kvisco - 20021022)

XML:    Fixed the default namespace regression issue with Schema object model
        (kvisco - 20021017)

JDO:    Fixed bug #973: Dependent objects deletion order problem.
        (Mickael Guessant - 20021028)

JDO:    Fixed test_item table in postgresql.sql, id column must be NULL,
    caused TC28 to fail.
        (Mickael Guessant - 20021028)

JDO:    Fixed bug #1082: Container managed connections are not closed properly
        (Bruce - 20021024)

Version 0.9.4, October 14, 2002
-------------------------------

JDO:    Added patch to docs (jdo-faq.xml) from Patrick van Kann concerning
        lazy loading questions.
        (Bruce - 20021014)

JDO:    Fixed bug #1031 dealing with the closing of database connections when
        container managed transaction is rolled back.
        (Bruce - 20021014)

XML:    Fixed AnyNode writing: the sibling nodes (except for TEXT nodes) are no longer output
        when writing an AnyNode. The string value of a AnyNode is now conform to XPath 1.0 specification.
        (Arnaud - 20021014)

XML:    Added option to generate extra collection methods from the source code
        generator. These methods include getter/setter for the actual reference
        to the collection. This makes the generated source code work better
        with Castor JDO.
        (kvisco - 20021013)

XML:    Added ability to ignore extra elements upon unmarshalling.
        Patch provided by John Weir.
        (kvisco - 20021010)

XML:    Updated XMLInstance2Schema to support better element/complexType handling
        and improved datatype guessing.
        (kvisco - 20021008)

XML:    Updated XMLInstance2Schema to support attributes. Sorry for the oversight!
        (kvisco - 20021008)

XML:    Fixed bug 1052: the XML type resolution has been improved to take into account
        the targetNamespace if any and the XML types defined in no namespace.
        (Arnaud - 20021008)

XML:    Fixed bug 1047: when resolving elements/types from an imported XML Schema, Castor will now
        look into the XML schemas that are imported in the imported XML Schema.
        (Arnaud - 20021004)

XML:    Added UnmarshalListener interface provided by Paul Christmann [paul@priorartisans.com]
        (Arnaud - 20021003)

XML:    Handle 3-digit millisecond in the Time implementation.
        (Arnaud - 20021002)

XML:    Applied patch by David Cumberland [dcumberl@TRUELINK.com] concerning
        DateTimeValidator
        (Arnaud - 20020926)

JDO:    Updated the examples to include a many-to-many relationship.
        (Bruce - 20020925)

XML:    Added ability to disable xsi:type attributes when marshalling.
        (kvisco - 20020917)

XML:    Fixed a bug in SAX2ANY, when using SAX1 namespaces weren't correctly processed and added
        to the AnyNode.
        (Arnaud - 20020913)

XML:    Added the support for URIResolver. The user can now specify to the Schema Reader
        a behavior to resolve relative URIs used in the XML Schema being read. The introduction
        of a default URIResolver implementation fixes numerous bugs in paths resolution when using
        include or import.
        (Arnaud - 20020913)

XML:    Added the ability to pass a custom EntityResolver to the Schema Reader.
        (Arnaud - 20020913)

XML:    Fixed a bug in the resolution of XMLTypes in the Schema Object Model. An exception
        was thrown when trying to resolve an XMLType that was not part of the Schema targetNamepace.
        (Arnaud - 20020913)

XML:    Added validation in the Schema Object Model to ensure that element references are
        resolvable.
        (Arnaud - 20020913)

XML:    Fixed a bug that prevented the processing of an unknown type in the Source Generator.
        A NPE was thrown.
        (Arnaud - 20020913)

XML:    Fixed NullPointerException issue with generated source code when
        using bound properties in conjunction with default primitive values.
        (kvisco - 20020905)

XML:    NOTATION is no longer treated as a primitive type.
        (Arnaud - 20020828)

XML:    Added validation in the Schema Object Model to ensure that named complexTypes
        and named groups are only used as top-level components.
        (Arnaud - 20020823)

XML:    Updated the JNaming class to use Character#isJavaIdentifierPart and
        Character#isJavaIdentifierStart when determining a valid java identifier.
        (kvisco - 20020823)

XML:    Fixed issue with using add-method in conjunction with Hashtable and
        Maps.
        (kvisco - 20020822)

XML:    Fixed problem with namespace usage and mapping file. If namespace
        prefixed attributes existed for the root element, then a prefix was
        getting erroneously created for the namespace even if a prefix already
        existed for the namespace from the root element. I solved the issue by
        moving the code for managing namespaces before the processing attributes.
        (kvisco - 20020820)

XML:    Fixed issue with using references and collections.
        (kvisco - 20020816)

JDO:    Cleaned up docs with patches Mark Woon <morpheus@SMI.Stanford.EDU>
        and Erwin Bolwidt <erwin@klomp.org>

JDO:    Updated PostgreSQL jar file to their latest (CVS) version.
        Fixes timestamp bug. (Note: For the DataSouce class, use
        org.postgresql.jdbc2.optional.PoolingDataSource instead of
        org.postgresql.PostgresqlDataSource)
        (Wolpert - 20020812)

Version 0.9.3.21, August 12, 2002
----------------------------------

XML:    Fixed bug 990. Applied patch submitted
        by Paul Noenning [Paul.Noennig@AndersenCorp.com]
        (Arnaud - 20020809)

XML:    Added support for clearing collections upon initial use. This
        allows for removing default values, etc.  To enable this
        option, simply use Unmarshaller#setClearCollections.
        (kvisco - 20020809)

XML:    Added support for java.math.BigInteger.
        (kvisco - 20020808)

XML:    Patched issue with auto-naming and auto-complete in mapping file.
        (kvisco - 20020808)

XML:    Fixed bugs 969, 929, 910, 837
        (Arnaud - 20020806)

XML:    Fixed NullPointerException when importing a schema with no targetNamespace.
        (kvisco - 20020806)

JDO:    Updated MaxKeyGenerator so PostgreSQL (and MySQL) use quoted
        sequence table/column names. (Patch submitted by user)
        (Wolpert - 20020803)

JDO:    Add type convertors for java.lang.Long<->java.util.Date. Patch
        submitted by Mark Woon [morpheus@SMI.Stanford.EDU]
        (Bruce - 20020802)

XML:    Fixed issue with using elements as the identity field for HashMaps
        and Hashtables.
        (kvisco - 20020801)

XML:    Enhancements in the SchemaWriter.
        (Arnaud - 20020801)

JDO:    Improved error reporting for malformed OQL queries.
        (Bruce - 20020801)

XML:    Better error reporting while reading an XML Schema.
        (Arnaud - 20020801)

XML:    Fixed issue with unmarshalling Hashtables and Maps when using element
        fields as the identity.
        (kvisco - 20020801)

XML:    Added some initial patches to support unions. Not yet complete, but
        better than nothing.
        (kvisco - 20020731)

JDO:    (doc) Improved JDO documentation by adding a doc on JDO Mapping
        and by fixing numerous errors and clarifying statments throughout
        many docs
        (Bruce)

XML:    Fixed bug 987. AnyType was wrongly processed when used in a complexType
        restriction.
        (Arnaud - 20020730)

JDO:    Fixed bug #861 so that RelationCollection iterates correctly over
        items marked for deletion. Fix submitted by Todd Rader [trader@saltare.com]
        (Bruce - 20020712)

XML:    Fix for binary (byte[]) errors when using node="text".
        (kvisco - 20020712)

XML:    Added Jim Moore's patch to fix an NPE in the MappingLoader and
        throw instead a MappingException when the fieldType has not
        been specified for array collections.
        (kvisco - 20020709)

XML:    Synchronized part of the Mapping#getResolver method for
        thread-safety issues.
        (kvisco - 20020708)

JDO:    Fixed bug #995 to add support for multiple occurrences of the AS keyword
        in an OQL query. Fix submitted by Shaun Kelly [shaun.kelly@bigpond.com]
        (Bruce - 20020626)

JDO:    Added SQL Server support to the JDO test. Ports submitted by
        Patrick van Kaan [patrick.vankann@fortune-cookie.com]
        (Bruce - 20020622)

XML:    Report error when namespace URI cannot be resolved during
        attribute processing (UnmarshalHandler).
        (kvisco - 20020612)

XML:    Checked in NullPointerException fix from Zsolt Kovacs for the
        XMLInstance2SchemaHandler class. The fix makes sure the buffer
        isn't null before we attempt to use it for guessing the type
        for the element.
        (kvisco - 20020612)

Version 0.9.3.19, June 05, 2002
----------------------------------

XML:    Fixed NullPointerException in org.exolab.castor.builder.ClassInfo.java
        when xs:any used
        (Andrew Fawcett - 20020605)

XML:    Added static setTimeZone method to DateFieldHandler.java to override
        default (JVM)
        (Andrew Fawcett - 20020605)

XML:    Fixed bug causing fields with date, collection and enum types not to be
        stored in class descriptor. Marshaller then claims the descriptor doesn't
        understand the element. DateFieldHandler.java, EnumFieldHandler.java and
        CollectionFieldHandler.java
        (Andrew Fawcett - 20020605)

XML:    Added code to SourceGenerator.java to utilise setSuppressNonFatalWarnings
        and/or command line opt when outputing warnings about imported schemas.
        (Andrew Fawcett - 20020605)

XML:    Fixed bug 890 (Arnaud -20020604)

XML:    Fixed xml:lang support in mapping file
        (kvisco - 20020603)

XML:    Added support for mapping the type-safe enumerations that are
        generated by Castor's SourceGenerator.
        (kvisco - 20020528)

XML:    SAX2 is used by default in the SourceGenerator. Added the sax1 option for
        using SAX1 (Arnaud - 20020528)

XML:    Fixed bug 896 ClassDescriptor inheritence issue
        (kvisco - 20020521)

XML:    Enhancements in Schema Reader / Writer
        (Arnaud - 20020517)

XML:    Added Glenn Nielsen's Patch for loading the Castor configuration
        files in the proper order.
        (kvisco - 20020429)

XML:    Fixed problem with introspection of primitive arrays.
        (kvisco - 20020427)

XML:    Added support for saving and retrieving namespace node mappings from
        the object model. Only applies when using a mapping file.
        (kvisco - 20020419)

XML:    Fixed bug 916 and other problems in the Validation code related to
        generated classes.
        (Arnaud - 20020418)

XML:    Fixed bug 879: The generated classes now reflect the 'Restriction' inheritence
        model for complexType as defined by W3C XML Schema
        (Arnaud - 20020405)

XML:    Added Unmarshaller#setAllowExtraAttributes method to allow control
        over whether or not extra (non-matched) attributes should be flagged
        as an error when using mapping files.
        (kvisco - 20020325)

XML:    Fixed null encoding issue in Configuration.java reported by Thomas Paradies.
        (kvisco - 20020325)

XML:    Removed unintentional filtering of 'xmlns' attributes.
        (Andrew Fawcett  20020318)

XML:    Added methods to Marshaller for setting schemaLocation and
        nonNamespaceSchemaLocation.
        (kvisco - 20020313)

XML:    Added some support for SAX 2 in Marshalling Framework.
        (kvisco - 20020309)

XML:    Refactored the entire container support. A lot of changes have been
        made during the Unmarshalling process and a method (canAccept) has
        been added to the XMLClassDescriptor interface. These changes fix
        bug #884 (and potentially many others)
        (Arnaud - 20020306)

XML:    Added initial support for Unmarshaller#setReuseObjects.
        (kvisco - 20020227)

XML:    Allowed to set the encoding of the serializer via the Marshaller (Arnaud - 20020301)

XML:    Fix bug# 886 (Arnaud - 20020219)

XML:    Fix namespaces issue in the marhalling process (Arnaud - 20020211)

ALL:    Upgraded Jakarta Ant to version 1.4 (kvisco) - 20020205)

ALL:    Updated build system to Adaptx, removed XSL:P. Adaptx is the Exolab
        version of my old XSL:P processor (kvisco - 20020205)

XML:    Fix bug with Namespaces and QName resolving in the Marshaller, the namespace
        URI was not being properly declared. (kvisco - 20020202)

XML:    A number of small fixes to the Schema Object Model and SchemaWriter
        (kvisco - 20020201)

XML:    Added code to remove the xsi-type attribute when a mapping file is used
        (Arnaud - 20020131)

XML:    Make sure we marshal namespace prefixes for attributes when necessary
        (kvisco - 20020130)

XML:    Fix for contructor of Unmarshaller which takes a Mapping object, default
        validate value was not getting set properly. (kvisco - 20020130)

XML:    Fixed a bug that generated classes for "simpleContent" element
        (Arnaud - 20020125)

XML:    Added Rick Hogge's patch to the source generator that makes
        java.lang.Object fully qualified to prevent errors when an element name
        is "object" or "Object". (kvisco - 20020124)

XML:    Improved Javadoc support - method names now use the Schema annotations for
        their respective fields. (kvisco - 20020117)

XML:    Added support for marshalling xsi:type using only Schema name, instead
        of Java classname. (kvisco - 20020115)

XML:    Added support in the Schema Object Model for 'union'. Union is not
        yet integrated with the source generator. (kvisco - 20011217)

XML:    Refactored the handling of wildcard in the Schema Object Model and
        Source Generator (Arnaud)

XML:    Added support in the Schema Object Model for 'remove' methods (Arnaud)

XML:    Added support for timeZone in Marshaller and Unmarshaller (Andy Fawcett)

JDO:    Fixed CALL SQL select parenthesis bug. (yip - 20020212)
        Fix submitted by Glenn Nielsen [glenn@voyager.apg.more.net]

JDO:    Fixed bug 870. ResultSet and PreparedStatement is not closed if interested
        object is not found. Finally block is added to close the statement and rs.
        (yip - 20020208)
        Bug reported and solution is suggested by Jeffrey Wescott[jeff@saltare.com])

JDO:    Added InstanceFactory. This interface defines custom instance
        factory. If custom factory is set, instead of using java reflection,
        Castor obtains an instance of data object using the set custom factory,
        if needed during loading. (yip - 20020124)
        Submitted by Alan Cabrera [adc@multex.com]

Version 0.9.3.9, December 12, 2001
----------------------------------

XML:    Added support to the Schema Object Model for a number of XML Schema
        attributes / properties such as elementFormDefault, form,
        attributeFormDefault, abstract, id...etc that were previously not
        read in from the XML Schema. Validation still needs to be updated,
        as well as the source code generator (kvisco - 20011129, 20011205)

XML:    Added support for the extremely powerful 'handler' attribute on
        the field element for the mapping (kvisco - 20011205)

XML:    Patch to XMLMappingLoader to fix dropped multiple id fields. This is a
        actually a patch to fix bugs which occur in MappingLoader and an errant
        implementation of ClassDescriptor (ClassDescriptorImpl). This fix should
        be moved once we have consensus from both JDO + XML teams (kvisco - 20011204).

XML:    Support for Identity-Constraints in the Schema Object Model and
        SchemaWriter. Not yet supported in SourceGenerator (kvisco) 20011120

XML:    Applied Nathan Green's patch to allow "all" option when prompting
        to overwrite files during source code generation. (kvisco) 20011113

XML:    A number of improvements to SchemaWriter (kvisco) 20011112

XML:    Applied Glenn Nielsen's patch to allow double qoutes in default/fixed
        schema values (kvisco) 20011111.

XML:    Fixed bug that prevented elements that reference each other to generate
        classes. It removes the StackOverFlow Exception. (Arnaud)

XML:    Added code from Matt Small [msmall@clickability.com] that improves the SchemaWriter support (Arnaud)

XML:    Fixed bug in the generated descriptors to correctly generate validation code when collections are used.
        (Reported by Dr. Louis Coetzee [lcoetzee@subversion.icomtek.csir.co.za]) (Arnaud)

XML:    Added QName support in the marshalling framework (when used via the mapping or via
        the Source Code Generator) (Arnaud)


XML:    Added special code to prevent creating a default XML name when using the "matches"
        attribute for bind-xml element in the mapping file. (kvisco) 20010815

XML:    Fixed bug with introspector...first character of field name was not being
        decapitalized. This caused a bug in the "auto-complete" feature.
        (kvisco) 20010815

XML:    Fixed bug with "auto-complete" when specifying an identity field, the field
        descriptor was not being set. (kvisco) 20010814

XML:    Added support for specifying that a field is a reference using the mapping file.
        (kvisco) 20010814

XML:    Fixed bug in the generated classes: the attributes of complexTypes which contained
        nested groups were wrongly located.
        (Reported by Joseph Campolongo [jvc@cascadeworks.com]) (Arnaud)

XML:    Fixed bug that prevented string-to-primitive conversion code from being
        executed for identity fields (kvisco) 20010808
         - Bug reported by Patric Bechtel

XML:    Fixed bug which prevented IDREFS from working properly (kvisco) 20010807
         - Applied patches sent in from Steve Vaughan

XML:    Added code to Source Code Generator to create 'add(index, object)' method for list fields.
        (andrew.fawcett@coda.com, Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Fixed bug with 'equals' implementation not being generated for classes representing <xsd:complexType>'s
        (andrew.fawcett@coda.com, Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Fixed bug in 'equals' implementation, not calling super.equals(...) when approprite
        (andrew.fawcett@coda.com, Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Fixed problem in Schema unmarshalling (when using both xsd:include and xsd:import),
        allowing a given schema to be  parsed a second time, resulting in duplicate type errors.
        (andrew.fawcett@coda.com, Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Added an option (default is off) to expose the names of each attribute and element described in the class descriptor.
        Use org.exolab.castor.builder.classdescfieldnames=true in castorbuilder.properties to enable
        (andrew.fawcett@coda.com, Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Fix a bug in SimpleTypeFactory.
        (Reported by Risheng Lin <rlin@eng.utoledo.edu>) (Arnaud)

XML:    Add an option in the Source Generator that allows to use wrapper objects instead of primitives
        (Eg java.lang.Double instead of double) (Arnaud)

XML:    Fix a bug when handling attibutes in the UnMarshallerHandler (bug reported and
        patch submitted by Marcin Chalotowski <Marcin.Chalotowski@3dart.com>) (Arnaud)

JDO:    Fixed a old values appears in new result problem.
        (reported by Jim Branecki [Jim_Branecki@sparta.com]
         and Steven Lee [steven@lee-home.com])

JDO:    Added setAutoStore to JDO and DataObjects (necessary for use in EJB environment). (oleg)

JDO:    Fixed the rs.next() called more than one problem. (yip)

JDO:    Fixed IllegalStateException when TransactionManager calls
        afterComplete( Status.ROLLEDBACK ), without calling
        beforeComplete() first. According to the JTA specification,
        rollback can be one-phase.
        (reported by Richard Monson-Haefel [Richard@intalio.com]
         and Matthew Jensen [mmj@ceg.net])

JDO:    Made the BatchUpdateSQL utility to take small letter "go" as end
        tokens of a statements. (yip)

JDO:    Added special care for Double/Float type to workaround a oracle's problem. (yip)

JDO:    Splitted create() phase into two phases: markCreate() and create().
        In the markCreate() phase, the object to be created is walked and all
        objects that should be created are marked. Then, the marked object is
        created in the order that is determined by getPriority(). After the
        creation, object cache that related to other is updated.
        (similar changes was made to update())
        - The change is introduced to solve several problems related object creation.
          (The old apporach try to delay the creation of dependent object to preStore
          state, so that the master object is always created first. The master generated
          key would be ready when dependent object are created at transaction prepare.)
          bug 1: dependent's related object is not automatically created,
                 even if autStore set true. (with key gen used both side)
          bug 2: 1:1 dependent relationship is not always done right, depends on which
                 side is the foreign key placed. (with key gen used both side)
          bug 3: in some tricky suituation, created object cache is not updated. (yip)

JDO:    Fixed a bug in the FieldMolder.isStored() method. (yip)

JDO:    Fixed the problem with two 1:N relations between the same two tables (reported
        by CORMONT Cedric <cedric.cormont@softeam.fr>). The solution is to use aliases
        (when needed) in outer joins generated by SQLEngine. (oleg)

JDO:    Restricted JDO to eat only ObjectNotFoundException now to workaround
        inconsistent reference in database. (yip)

JDO:    Fixed a NPE in TransactionContext.load().
        (reported by Naveen Sharma [sharmn@sdd.comsat.com])

JDO:    Fixed bug in JDBCQueryExpression.getSelect() that previously
        was hidden in ancestors. (oleg)

JDO:    Fixed a bug that caused PersistenceException("persis.typeMismatch")
        to be thrown in ClassMolder.
        (Bug reported by (Naveen Sharma [sharmn@sdd.comsat.com]))

JDO:    Added type convertor of BigDecimal<-->Short and BigDecimal<-->Byte. (yip)

JDO:    Fixed a deadlock problem.
        (Reported and submitted by Holger Krug [hkrug@rationalizer.com])

JDO:    Treated an SQL generation issue temporarily. When users write an OQL
        contains two or more conditions on the same one-to-many relation,
        s/he expects OQL to return the union of the two conditions, but it
        is returning the intersection now.
        (Patch submitted by Rehor Petr [petr.rehor@decros.cz])

JDO:    Fixed a StackOverflowException. The Exception was caused by an infinite
        loop in getPrority().
        (Submitted by Mark Lamb [Mark.Lamb@spirent.com])

JDO:    Fixed a problem causing unexpected ObjectModifiedException being thrown
        when an object in one side of 1:1 relationship is being added via a long
        transaction. (yip)
        (Reported by Sharma, Naveen [Naveen.Sharma@lmco.com])

JDO:    Fixed the default value not being used for primitives bug. (yip) 20011025

JDO:    Fixed the 1:1 dependent object not being created when the it is newly
        link, or replaced to the master object in both long and short
        transaction. (yip) 20011025

JDO:    Added support of read-only field for Castor JDO. Read only can be
        enable setting read-only attribute to true inside sql element in
        the mapping file. (eg. <field><sql read-only="true".../></field> )
        20011029
        (Patch submitted by Jakob Braeuchi [jbraeuchi@hotmail.com])

JDO:    Enabled sql function in the "Order By" clause of an OQL. 20011029
        (Patch submitted by Low Heng Sin [lowhs@comline.com.my])

JDO:    Made compilable with javac 1.2.
        [reported by BEDNARIK,LASLO laslo_bednarik@hp.com]

JDO:    Fixed a problem that causes Castor JDO always requesting writeLock for a
        data object with a lazy-loaded collection. (yip) 20011126
        (bug reported by Dominik Baranowski [dbaranowski@saltare.com] and
        Ned Wolpert [ned.wolpert@knowledgenet.com])

JDO:    Fixed a problem that causes <field set-method="..."/> doesn't work.
        20011130
        (reported by Matthew Baird [matthew_baird@againtech.com]
        patch submitted by Jakob Braeuchi [jbraeuchi@hotmail.com])

JDO:    Fixed the integrity problem with many-to-many relationship.
        (reported by many users...) (yip) 20011130

JDO:    Made TxDatbaseMap implementing Serializable.
        TxDatabaseMap must implement Serializable.
        TxDatabaseMap is a member of JDO. (bug 792) 20011203
        (Reported by Guenter Gartner[guenter.gartner@gillardon.de])

JDO:    Fixed bug 801(b): bugs in RelationCollection.clear().
        (yip) 20011203
        (Bug reported by tysonsinger@metatv.com)


JDO:    Fixed bug 801(a): bugs in RelationCollection.addAll() 20011203
        (Bug reported and fixed by tysonsinger@metatv.com)

JDO:    Fixed Bug 579: dirty="ignore" on sql fields in the mapping
        file does not work. 20011203
        (Bug reported and fix submitted by ryoder@q-markets.com)

JDO:    Fixed a potential problem with lazy collection consistency.

        If an object is removed from database, and the lazy collection
        still link to it at the end of transaction, the cache would
        still "think" the object is in the database in the next
        transaction.

        Although the test can detect that in some case, it is not
        recommended to depends on this behavior. Always dis-link it,
        before calling db.remove(). (yip) 20011204

JDO:    Added sqldate and sqltime as supported field type. (yip) 20011204

JDO:    Added timestamp as supported java field type. 20011204
        (submitted by Markus Fritz [mfritz@justis.de])

JDO:    Added try/catch to clear the _creating flag, which conserves the
        internal consistency when exception was thrown. 20011204
        (bug reported and fixed by Todd Rader [trader@saltare.com]
        and Dominik Baranowski [dbaranowski@saltare.com])

JDO:    Fixed a NPE which occurs when removing an data object with empty many-many
        relationship. (yip) 20011205
        (bug reported Jan Kanzleiter [mailto:idefix@tfh-berlin.de])

JDO:    Fixed a problem which occurs when two long-transactional objects
        are linked together in a many-many relationship. (yip) 20011205
        (bug reported by Toni Charlot [toni@fdplus.com])

JDO:    (doc) Added FAQs for OQL and data model issues.

JDO:    (doc) Corrected the PostgreSQL configuration example.
        (Submitted by Todd V. Jonker [tjonker@inpathsol.com])

JDO:    (doc) Added a FAQ for pass-thru SQL.


JDO:    (test) Added a 2 second sleep in between the creation of the first
        and second object. This is needed to make the test case run properly.
        Because, some database stored time in less precision, and it causes
        the test to fail. (yip)

JDO:    (test) Used a new SQL connection in the inner class of the test to
        workaround a problem in Solaris. (yip)

JDO:    (test) Added test cases for dependent relationship where each of the data object
        identity is key-generated. (yip)

JDO:    (test) Enhanced error reporting for the Deadlock test case. (yip)

JDO:    (test) Added test cases for more TypeConvertor. (yip)

JDO:    (test) Added a test for 1:1 dependent relationship. (yip)

JDO:    (test) Added a soak test for Castor JDO. (todo: adds build.xml entry) (yip)

JDO:    (test) Added a test case for depedent objects with
        key-generator used in long transaction. (yip)

XML & JDO:  (doc) Fixed most of the javadoc warnings. (yip)

DSML:   Fixed a NPE. 20011205
        (bug reported and fixed by Gilbert Pilz [gilbert.pilz@e2open.com])


Version 0.9.3 July 3, 2001
--------------------------

XML:    Added fix to CollectionInfoJ2 for unbounded collections. (kvisco)
           - reported by Julien Viet

XML:    Added nested Exception support for SimpleTypesFactory (kvisco)

XML:    Added nested Exception support for FieldHandlerImpl (kvisco)

XML:    Fixed CollectionInfoODMG30,  applied patch by Bernd Deichmann (kvisco)

XML:    Added the auto-complete feature and transient field support to
        the mapping file. (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Fix a bug that creates infinite loop when cross-importing
        (or including) schemas(Arnaud).

XML:    Added the support for the facets min/max Ex/Inclusive for the date/time
        types and added complete implementation of date/time W3C XML Schema
        datatypes (Arnaud).

XML:    Added new supports for XML Schema Recommendation datatypes and remove
        old references to the Candidate Recommendation document (Arnaud).

XML:    Added push behavior for the unmarshaller with SAX producer. Made some
        functions public and UnmarshalHandler final.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Remove the xsi:type when using the generated descriptors.(Arnaud)

XML:    Support for the <any> element in the Marshalling Framework.(Arnaud)

XML:    Added setRootElement method to Marshaller.java to override default root
        element name for document. Usefull when using classes generated via
        'type' mapping, as the root element name is not known.
        (Andrew Fawcett, andrew.fawcett@coda.com)

XML:    Fix the Marshaller to handle correctly Vector by keeping the
        xsi:type information (Bug reported by Eric Kaplan
        (eric.kaplan@armanta.com) (Arnaud)

XML:    Fix the SourceGenerator to handle correctly the 'types' package
        when a Date/Time type is used as an attribute.(thanks to
        Maria Gray <maria.gray@datalex.ie>,
        Christopher P. van Buskirk <Chris.vanBuskirk@vanderbilt.edu> and
        Dean Thompson <dthompson@medebiz.net> for their proposed solutions) (Arnaud)

XML:    Removed a dependency to xerces jar in Configuration.java
        (Patch submitted by Marc-Antoine Parent <Marc-Antoine_Parent@Mitel.COM>
        and committed by Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Fix a bug in the validation framework. (Arnaud)

XML:    Supports the <any> element in the Source Generator.(Arnaud)

XML:    Support the wildcards <any> and <anyAttribute> in the Schema Object Model.
        (Arnaud)

XML:    Improved grouping support....now handles maxOccurs > 1. Nested groups
        are no longer simply flattened. (kvisco)

XML:    Added object container support. Handle element and attributes, as
        well as container in container. Object container are object that
        exist in the object model, but will not appear directly in the XML
        document. There will be no element associated to this object, but
        its child will appear in its parent element.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Fixed a problem in HypersonicSQL driver in which it creates invalid
        statements in case when there are mixture of outer joins and regular
        joins. The problem relates to the table aliassing.
        (Kesha Sibilev <ksibilev@powernetinc.com>)

JDO:    Fixed an ObjectNotPersistentException in ClassMolder.preStore().
        This method is trying to obtain write lock on the collection
        instance instead of doing that on the actual object.
        (Kesha Sibilev <ksibilev@powernetinc.com>)

JDO:    Fixed when deleting an object which participates in the many-to-many
        relationship the corresponding record in the relation table is not
        being deleted problem. (Kesha Sibilev <ksibilev@powernetinc.com>)

JDO:    Fixed the addMethod is not cloned for mutliple class loader enviorment
        problem. (Ralf Purnhagen <purnhar@gmx.net>)

JDO:    Fixed identity name in complex identities not being recongnized problem
        by an OQLQuery. (Ted X. Toth <tedx@elegiant.com>)

JDO:    Added support for aliases in generated SQL queries.
        Before in some cases OQL queries were incorrectly translated into SQL.
        (Thorsten Thielen <thorsten@ipcon.de>)

JDO:    Shortened the name for aliases in generated SQL queries to
        support database that allows limited columns name length.
        (Thorsten Thielen <thorsten@ipcon.de>)

JDO:    Added support for SQL functions in OQL queries.
        (Thorsten Thielen <thorsten@ipcon.de>)

JDO:    Fixed a bug which cause "remove(Object)" always return false.
        (Steve Vaughan <snmvaughan92@yahoo.com>)

JDO:    Fixed a problem that Castor JDO is trying to creates an related object
        on the m side of a 1:m relationship when the object should be updated.
        (Kim Madsen <kim.madsen@inceptor.com>)

JDO:    Added SQL Direct Interface. Syntax:
        "CALL SQL <sql expression> AS classname". The fields that are returned
        with you sql query must be the same, as the equivalent OQL Query would do.
        Tip: you may turn on Castor logging and study the generated SQL
        statements. (Thorsten Mauch <mauch@imkenberg.de>)

JDO:    Added the overdued <sql many-key="??"/> and <sql many-table="??"/>
        attributes into the mapping.dtd file.
        (reported by Vladimir Tsichevski <wowa@jet.msk.su>)

JDO:    Fixed a AOBException in RelationCollection used by lazy loaoding.
        (submitted by Steve Bate <mail@technoetic.com>)

JDO:    Fixed a "too many open cursor" errors caused by JDBC statement not
        released. (Submitted by Steve Bate [mail@technoetic.com])

JDO:    Fixed an IllegalArgumentException being thrown the second time a value
        or function query was bound.
        (Submitted by Steve Bate [mail@technoetic.com])

JDO:    Added IdentityKeyGenerator support for Informix.
        (Submitted by David Tinker [david@hemtech.co.za])

JDO:    Fixed an ArrayOutOfBoundsException occurs in lazy loaded collection's
        iterator. (Submitted by Georg Schneider [h8825037@obelix.wu-wien.ac.at])

JDO:    Fixed: Loading with "db-locked" mode is now always load from the
        Database. (yip)

JDO:    Moved the callback of storing(...) into TransactionContext.java. (yip)

JDO:    Added the option for custom CallbackInterceptor. (yip)

JDO:    Added an option to let users specify the instance of object to be
        loaded into, in the Database.load(...) method. (note, only for
        simple object with no persistence relationship) (yip)

JDO:    Reduced the number of TimeThread used by Time-limited cache.

JDO:    Fixed a bug that cause ObjectDeletedException being thrown at commit
        time, for one-many and many-many relationship when an object on the
        many side is deleted. (yip)
        (reported by many people)

JDO:    Fixed a many-many relationship update (long-trasaction) problem. (yip)

JDO:    Rewritten a major part of ClassMolder.update(...) to better handle
        one-many and many-many relationship with key-generator and update. (yip)

JDO:    As part of the rewritten mentioned above, update is now behavior like
        create if the TimeStampable.jdoGetTimeStamp return NO_TIMESTAMP if
        autoStore is set true. (yip)

JDO:    Added a final static variable TimeStampable NO_TIMESTAMP. (yip)

JDO:    Added database to transaction association pooling.
        This option only affects JDO if transactionManager is set and
        a transaction is associated with the thread that call
        getDatabase(). If jdo Database pooling is enabled, JDO will
        first search in the pool to see if there is already a Database
        for the current transaction. If found, it returns the database;
        if not, it create a new one, associates it will the transaction
        and return the newly created Database. (yip)

JDO:    (misc) Added a BatchUpdateSQL utility to helps executing a batch
        of sql create statements in the jdo test directory. (yip)

JDO:    (misc) Ported test cases and test harness framework from JTF to
        JUnit (yip)

JDO:    (misc) Javadoc to test cases (yip)


Version 0.9.2 March 28, 2001 - also includes version 0.9.1
----------------------------------------------------------

XML:    Added fix for collections, reported by Ozgur Balsoy. This bug was introduced
        on March 8th, in the version 1.45 of DescriptorSourceFactory. (kvisco)

XML:    Added fix for enumerated simpleTypes. When a simpleType restricted another
        simpleType, if both types defined an enumertion facet with the same value
        Castor wouldn't handle this properly. Bug reported by Stephan Goetter.
        (kvisco)

XML:    Added fix for generating source code using the element-method. Classes
        were no longer extending their abstract type definitions. (kvisco)

XML:    Add a command line property for the Source Generator to use the generated files in
        the Castor Testing Framework(Arnaud)

XML:    Add a property in castorbuilder.properties to generate a clean 'equals' method (Arnaud)

XML:    Fix a bug concerning the handling of 'Enumeration' in inner elements (Arnaud)

JDO:    Fixed some problems when two key generated related (or dependent) object creating in
        the same transaction. (Thomas)

JDO:    Relaxed the restriction so that a data object class can now extends one class and
        depends another. (Suggested by Rimac, Ivica <ivica.rimac@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de>)

JDO:    Fixed NPEs in TransactionContext, and ClassMolder in update(...). (Thomas)

JDO:    Edited the New features document for Castor JDO. (Submited by Rick Horowitz <rickhoro@yahoo.com>)

JDO:    Updated the oqlQuery tools. (Submited by Thorsten Mauch <mauch@imkenberg.de>)

JDO:    Encapsulated and nested runtime exceptions generated while accessing the data object
        into DataObjectAccessException. (suggested by Christian Sell <christian.sell@netcologne.de>)

JDO:    Fixed a few bugs which some variables are mixed up in ClassMolder.
        (submitted by Eldad Zamler<eldad314@netvision.net.il>)

JDO:    Fixed NPEs introduced by autoStore. (reported by Steve Vaughan <snmvaughan92@yahoo.com>
        and Patric Bechtel <bechtel@ipcon.de>)

JDO:    Fixed bug: 1:1-dependent objects with key generator were not created on creation of master object.
        (oleg)

JDO:    Fixed bug: dependent collections with key generator where updated incorrectly
        (reported by Ivica Rimac <ivica.rimac@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de>)

JDO:    Added possibility to use in a query condition object references that correspond to sql field.
        In this case the object of a persistence capable class should be bound as a parameter. (oleg)

JDO:    Fixed bug: SQL types and order of fields in multi-column identities were handled incorrectly
        (reported by Geoff Jacobsen <geoffj@casquet.inet.net.nz>)

JDO:    Fixed bugs: readonly locking mode didn't work properly in some cases
        (Damon Maria <damon@mahu-ika.com>, David J Snowsill <david.snowsill@calibreft.com.au>)

JDO:    Fixed bug: conversions defined in a mapping configuration were not applied to OQL query parameters.
        (oleg)

JDO:    Added support for table names such as "user.tablename".
        (Andrew Ballanger <AWBALLAN@smumn.edu>)

JDO:    Fixed bug: object modifications were determined incorrectly in some cases.
        (David J Snowsill <david.snowsill@calibreft.com.au>, oleg)

Version 0.9 February, 15 2001
-----------------------------

XML:    Adding a new feature for handling all types of content and not only TEXT content (Arnaud)

XML:    Change the read method name for arrays (Arnaud)
        (bug reported by thebuledirt@yahoo.com)

XML:    Several bug fixes in the SourceGenerator concerning the attribute string value (Arnaud)

XML:    Added improved grouping support. Grouping support is not finished,
        but is definately improved over Castor 0.8.11. 1st-level choice is
        now supported. (kvisco)

XML:    Added enumerate() method to generated enumeration types. (kvisco)

XML:    Added support for specifying certain properties of the Introspector, such
        as whether primitives should be treated as attributes or elements, and
        default naming conventions. (kvisco)

XML:    Updated mapping.xsd_sg to be compliant with latest XML Schema. (kvisco)

XML:    Added support for DOM in Marshaller.java and Unmarshaller.java
           (Andrew Fawcett andrew.fawcett@coda.com)

XML:    Added setPolymorph method to Marshaller.java. This can be used to force all field values
           to be marshalled as their field types rather than their instance types.
           (Andrew Fawcett andrew.fawcett@coda.com)

XML:    Changed the default behavior of the Xerces Serializer to preserve space
        by default.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Added support for restriction in simpleContent and enhanced complexType support
        (Arnaud <blandin@intalio.com>)

XML:    Added the command-line option '-nomarshall' which aims at preventing the
        generation of the marshalling framework specific methods (marshall, unmarshall, validate)
        (Arnaud <blandin@intalio.com>)

XML:    Added setNSPrefixAtRoot method. When used in conjunction with setNamespaceMapping this
        will insert the namepsace declarations at the root node.
        (Andrew Fawcett, andrew.fawcett@coda.com)

XML:    Fixed collection handling for introspected class.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Bug fix for using addXxx methods.
        (Fix submitted by Michael Thyen <mthyen@excite.com>)

XML:    Bug fix in the handling of 'Map' collection. Now we use the abstract
        'Map' interface rather than 'HashMap'.
        (Fix submitted by Ron Smith <rsmith7209@yahoo.com>)

XML:    Added some logic to avoid unnecessary use of 'xsi:type' when
        marshalling. The logic check if Castor is able to find the proper java
        class to instantiate from the mapping file information.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Solved a performance bug for unmarshalling of primitive type. We don't
        try anymore to generate a Class Descriptor for primitive type as we know
        that not only it fails but it is deadly slow (due to getMethods()
        call). Now, unmarhsalling speed is nearly only bounded by the speed of
        the parser.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML & JDO:
        Check that an XML mapping file do not declare more identity attributes
        for a given class than there are field elementsdefined for that
        class.
        (Patch submitted by Gabriel Richard Pack <gpack@electroneconomy.com>)

XML & JDO:
        Regenerated data objects in the org.exolab.castor.mapping.xml package,
        using an updated version of schema (Nov 2000).

XML & JDO:
        Now the return type of get-method must be a super-class of or equal to
        the class declared in mapping.xml (was: sub-class).
        Note, that now "arraylist" can be used as a value of "collection"
            attribute in mapping.xml

JDO:    Bug fix when castor closed Connection during db.close() (before the end of
        transaction) and the got new Connection during beforeCompletion(),
        which remains open after the end of transaction.
        (Solution submitted by Terry Child <tmchild@gmx.net>)

JDO:    Castor JDO should now behave shamelessly in a multi classloader context.
        This is especially relevant when used in a BMP/CMP environment where the
        EJB container might assign a ClassLoader instance per set of Beans, or
        might attach a different classloader for each new transaction.
        (Sebastien Sahuc <ssahuc@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Added an AutoStore option to JDO. Method of setAutoStore and isAutoStore
        are added into the jdo.Database interface. If autoStore is set, Castor
        will try to create or update** all reachable object if it is not
        exist in the transaction, and store all reachable modified object at the
        commit time. If autoStore is not set, Castor will only create/update/store
        dependent object, and related objects must be created/update explicitly.
        (* update is used for long transaction only, all modified object
        created/loaded from the short transaction will be store properly
        at commit time) (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Added "trigger" mode for SEQUENCE key generator.
        (Vitaly Shishakov <vitaly.shishakov@novalumen.com>)

JDO:    Added support for MySQL auto_increment columns in IDENTITY key generator
        (Oleg Nitz, thanks to Alain RAVET <aravet@cirb.irisnet.be> for idea
        and to George Stewart <georgestewartiv@yahoo.com> for help).

JDO:    Improved support for BLOB and CLOB values. Now you can get them as
        java.io.InputStream and java.sql.Clob, respectively, see "types.html"
        for details (oleg).

JDO:    Solved problem of NULL dirty checking with Oracle (oleg).

JDO:    Added support for BIGINT sql type in key generators (oleg).

JDO:    Bug fix in the handling of classloader in the mapping loader (reported
        by brian rogers <brian@freya.bianca.com>).

JDO:    Added "serializable" as a supported field type. Require BLOB support in the
        database. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged JDO branch, "castorone", into the main branch.

JDO:    Merged: Store cycle during transaction "prepare" state is split into
        preStore and store cycles. With the new addition cycle, dependent object
        using key-generator is stored properly. It also avoid unnecessary update
        SQL statements execution. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Added markModification in TransactionContext. It enable a
        more flexible way to mark an object dirty. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: RemoveRelated is added in LockEngine. It automatically removes the
        reference of the deleted object in other related object. It protect
        cache consistency and avoid some ObjectNotFoundException due to
        users' errors. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Added Multiple Primary Keys support. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Added Many-to-Many relationship support. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Added Lazy loading for "collection" support. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Improved dependent object support. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Improved the in-memory locking architecture and stablity. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Cleaned up excessive ExceptionImpl classes. (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Support of Object[] as a collection type is temporarily removed.
        (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Merged: Support of custom ClassDescriptor for JDO side is no longer supported.
        (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

DAX:    Merged: Tempoarily removed DAX. To be reworked and merged into JDO
        (as new type of data-store).  (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

DSML:   Add a more detailed policies :
        * NewAttrOnly, which implies that new attributes are created according
        to the DSML, but attributes that already have a value in the ldap are
        not updated;
        * UpdateOnly, which mean that DSML attributes that do not already exist
        in the Ldap are not created.
        Submitted by Marc-Antoine Parent <Marc-Antoine_Parent@Mitel.COM>

DSML:   An ASCII string encoding bug is fixed.
        Submiited by Marc-Antoine Parent <Marc-Antoine_Parent@Mitel.COM>

Version 0.8.11 December, 15 2000
--------------------------------

XML:    Updated Schema syntax and some of the Schema Object Model to support
        the W3C XML Schema Candidate Release. (kvisco)

XML:    Allow the use of uninitialized collection. Castor will instiate a new
        collection of the proper type when necessary.
        (Sebastien Gignoux <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Added #setResolver method to Marshaller, thanks to George Stewart for
        pointing out to me that I neglected to add this method. (kvisco)

XML:    Changed name of xml element in the mapping.dtd to bind-xml. This change
        won't effect any existing mappings yet, because I've added backward
        compatibility support. (kvisco)

JDO:    For HIGH/LOW key generator the paramater "global" has been added, it gives possibility
        to generate globally unique keys (Oleg Nitz).

JDO:    SAP DB driver, improved support for MySQL (Oleg Nitz)

JDO:    Added possibility to close OQL queries in order to release resources (Oleg Nitz)

Version 0.8.10
--------------

XML:    Made the collection name in the mapping file NOT case sensitive. (Seb)

XML:    Added new validation flag for the marshalling framework in castor.properties
        Changed the parser validation property to og.exolab.castor.parser.validation
        (Arnaud)

XML:    Added fix to Marshaller#isPrimitive to support BigDecimal, submitted
        by Don Kleppinger. (kvisco)

XML:    Added "-nodesc" flag to source generater to disable generation of
        class descriptors. Suggested by George Stewart. (kvisco)

XML:    Fixed a bug in the unmarshalling of array of primitive type when using mapping.
        (Seb <gignoux@intalio.com>)

XML:    Added feature to castorbuilder.properties to allow specifying a super
        class of generated types (kvisco)

Version 0.8.9
-------------


JDO:    SEQUENCE key generator for Interbase (contributed by Nic Wise <nicw@xerxes.co.nz>).

JDO:    MySQL driver (contributed by Leonardo Souza Mario Bueno <leonardo@itera.com.br>).

JDO:    Annoying type conversion problems solved:
        - integer SQL type for Oracle now can be used for dependent objects
          identities - before this caused type conversion error;
        - timestamp SQL type can be used with Sybase - before dirty checking
          failed;
        - Database.load() now accepts identity value of the field type,
          type conversion is performed correctly - before it was needed
          to use the SQL type for Database.load(), but the field type
          for OQLQuery.bind(). (Oleg Nitz)

JDO:    Interbase driver (contributed by Terry Child <tmchild@gmx.net>).

JDO:    Added UUID key generator.
        (contributed by Thomas Fach <thomas.fach@publica.de>)

JDO:    jdoBeforeCreate() callback method has been added to Persistent
        interface. It is called during db.create() just before creating
        object in the persistent storage (Oleg Nitz).

JDO:    InstantDB driver (contributed by I. Burak Ozyurt <bozyurt@san.rr.com>).

JDO:    Replacing of extended object in the cache on load of extending object
        implemented. jdoLoad signature changed. Now in jdoLoad you can request
        reloading the object instance as an instance of an extending class.
        You need some "type" field in the extended class, which determines
        the correct extending class, see example in
        src\examples\myapp\Product.java. (Oleg Nitz)

JDO:    Now IdentityKeyGenerator works with Hypersonic SQL identities
        (idea by Mark Delanoy <mdelanoy@niku.com>)

JDO:    Fixed bugs (contributed by Bill Reynolds <bill@leastsquares.com>)
        - same OID for parent class instance and subclass instance
          with the same identities causes cache corruption
        - it is possible for a subclassed object to be reported as
          non-persistable even if it has a legal mapping
        - if you're using a class with the identity key generators and
          no member fields, you get bad sql generated

JDO:    Added support for LIMIT clause in OQL queries, currently for
        PostrgeSQL only (contributed by Alexey Snisarenko <alex@plesk.com>)

JDO:    Added JDO.setClassLoader(). (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Fixed problem with Float/BigDecimal and Double/BigDecimal
        type conversions. (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Implemented algorithm of "bounded" dirty checking for long
        transactions, it uses local timestamps and is works only
        if the object is still in the cache at the end of the transaction.
        See interface TimeStampable and Database.update().
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Changed HIGH/LOW key generator implementation: now holds lock
        on the record in the sequence table until the end of the transaction
        and doesn't use updatable ResultSets. (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)
        Fixed a gap in HIGH/LOW key generator implementation: with databases
        that don't support "SELECT FOR UPDATE" (like Hypersonic SQL and
        InstantDB) it was possible to get the same key values in two concurrent
        transactions (Reported by George Stewart <georgestewartiv@yahoo.com>)
        Now works in a separate connection, and commits changes to the sequence
        table immediately.

JDO:    Temporary fix to ClassLoader problem in EJB environment: application
        classes are loaded using context classloader of the current thread.
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

Misc:   JDK 1.1 compatibility is back. (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

XML:    Support for Bound Properties

XML:    Added support for Pattern Facet
         - currently works for string, integer, and long
        (kvisco)

XML:    Updated the Schema Object model to support the new Grouping syntax
        - Groups are still not supported by the source code generator.
        (kvisco)

XML:    Updated Unmarshaller to support "empty" strings (kvisco)

XML:    Added support for direct public field access for the Marshalling
        Framework when no accessor methods exist. (kvisco)

XML:    Fixed Marshaller#setMarshalAsDocument so that XML fragment marshalling
        works again. This used to work, but changes to the serializers had
        prevented this from working properly. Reported by Phil Grida. (kvisco)

XML:    Fixed endless recursion bug when processing recursive element
        declarations, reported by Chris Schaefer (kvisco).

XML:    Added George Stewarts changes to give mappings higher priority than
        generated descriptors

XML:    Added Patrick Higgins changes to the javasource package to fix
        support for abstract methods (kvisco)

XML:    Added support for in-lines SimpleTypes (anonymous) for
        attribute declarations (kvisco)

XML:    Added support for in-lined SimpleTypes (anonymous) for
        element declarations. (kvisco)

XML:    Added Luis Arias upgrade for the maxOccurs attribute of elements
        for the April xML Schema draft (kvisco)

XML:    Added support for top-level annotations (kvisco)

XML:    Made some changes in Unmarshalling code to handle "null" primitives.
        Based on suggestions from Fabrice Gomez. (kvisco)

XML:    Fixed a bug when Unmarshalling/Marshalling primitive Object wrappers
        using dynamic-introspection. (kvisco)

XML:    Changed some case-sensitive issues with the below mentioned Schema
        syntax upgrade (kvisco)

XML:    Update of the XML Schema syntax to the April 7th draft
           (Remy Maucherat <remm@apache.org>)

        The following things in the April draft are supported :
          - datatype -> simpleType
          - type -> complexType
          - the "source" attribute has been replaced by "base"
          - the "fixed" attribute in an attribute element now is
            part of the "use" attribute
          - the "default" attribute, which is used to specify the default
            value of an attribute, now is "value"
          - the "minOccurs" attribute of an attribute element has been removed,
            the attribute "use" has to be used instead. "use" can have the
            following values : default, optional, required, fixed and
            prohibited
          - Info element is now Documentation
          - maxOccurs = "*" is replaced by maxOccurs="unbounded"
            (Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Java 2 types compatibility (Patrick Higgins)

XML:    <include> element support (Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    decimal type support (Andrew Fawcett)

XML:    Support xsi:type from XML Schema for Instances
    (Remy Maucherat <remm@apache.org>)


Version 0.8.8  June 20, 2000
----------------------------

XML:    Added support for the Unmarshaller to automatically determine the
        Class of the root element, based on a given Mapping, or
        ClassDescriptorResolver

XML:    Added support for the "has" method for primitives in the generated source

XML:    Added support for specifying the destination output directory for the
        generated source code

XML:    Added support for fixed attributes, this currently works for string
        or integer values

JDO:    Fixed bug: NULL value in database was read as 0 for Java wrappers
        of primitive types (Long, Integer, etc.), now they are read as "null".
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Changed the inner SELECT syntax in MaxKeyGenerator to make it work
        with Hypersonic SQL.
        (Contributed by Santiago Arriaga <santiago@catnet.com.mx>)

JDO:    Hypersonic SQL driver.
        (Contributed by Santiago Arriaga <santiago.arriaga@catnet.com.mx>)

JDO:    Changed KeyGeneratorFactory interface for better perfomance:
        now the target primary key SQL type is passed to the key generator,
        and no type conversions are performed after the key is generated.
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Added support for attributes of application type and for nested
        attributes. Assume that you have an attribute "balance" of
        applicatation type "Balance" which has methods "getBigDecimal"
        and "setBigDecimal", then you can write in mapping.xml
          <field name="balance.bigDecimal"...
        and Castor will get and set the attribute value as
        getBalance().getBigDecimal() and getBalance().setBigDecimal(value).
        Note, that getBalance() may be null, in this case when setting
        a non-null value Castor will first do setBalance(new Balance()),
        and then getBalance().setBigDecimal(value).
        Another example of usage of the this feature is attribute "address"
        with nested attributes "country", "zipCode", etc.
        These attributes also may be of application type or nested, e.g.
          <field name="address.country.string"...
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Small fix: now fields in mapping.xml may have no "sql" sub-element,
        e.g. the field may be only for XML marshalling, other fields
        may be persisted through JDO. (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    "CALL" OQL queries now work with Oracle stored functions
        returning REF CURSOR (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)
        and PostgreSQL stored functions returning instance
        (contributed by Rostislav Beloff <ros@domainforfree.com>)

JDO:    Added type convertors BigDecimal <-> Boolean
        (contributed by Markus Fritz <mfritz@justis.de>)

JDO:    Fixes multiple request of same object with DBLocked
        (Oleg Nitz and Markus Fritz)

JDO:    Changes to Persistent interface enable developer to use database
        operations inside jdoStore, jdoCreate, jdoRemove.
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Cache control at JDO configuration and mapping file specification -
        no-cache option, cache count limit, cache time limit, LRU removal
        deamon (Thomas Yip <yip@intalio.com>)

JDO:    Bug fix: for created objects fetch() returned oid instead of object
        (contributed by Chris Stevenson <chris@ssabsa.sa.gov.au>)

JDO:    SQL Date types handling is improved.
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Bug fix: small bugs w/ BETWEEN in parser...reported by Vladmir Sekissov.
        (<nissim@panix.com>)

JDO:    fix string conversion to surround with ' and escape internal ' fix for
        bug with like. (<nissim@panix.com>)


Version 0.8.7  June 2, 2000
---------------------------

JDO:    Informix JDBC driver. (Contributed by Santiago Arriaga
        <santiago.arriaga@catnet.com.mx>)

JDO:    SEQUENCE key generator now works with Oracle. It has a special
        RETURNING mode for Oracle8i which is more efficient because
        obtains the identity during INSERT, without any additional SQL queries.
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Added three paramaterized type convertors: Date<->Integer,
        Date<->BigDecimal and Date<->String. The latter uses the SimpleDateFormat
        patterns (e.g. char[MMM d, yyyy]). The others uses similar
        but shortened patterns (e.g. numeric[YMDhmsS], which is equivalent
        to "yyyyMMddhhmmssSSS" SimpleDateFormat pattern).
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Fixes to handling of dependent objects create/delete/modify during
        transaction commit. (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Added convertor from byte to short/integer. (Contributed by Harindranath P. R. Nair
        <hari.nair@alopa.com>)

XML:    Identity field will now use XML name provided in mapping file.

XML:    Marshaller will now accept both primitive and non-primitive types and apply the
        proper conversion; no dropped in convertor used, so Date/byte conversion should
        work as expected; added test case for type handling of XML. (Bug reported by
        Eitan Suez <eitan@uptodata.com>)

Misc:   Fixed security bug when running as an Applet. (Reported by Remus Pereni
        <remus@nolimits.ro>).

Misc:   Added support for Java 1.2 Collection by running the source generator with the
        option '-types j2'. Vectors are used with 'j1' and ODMG 3.0 DArray with 'odmg'.


Version 0.8.6  May 24, 2000
---------------------------

XML:    Added support in the Marshaller to specify whether or not to marshal
        as an XML document, or just an XML fragment (default). Currently
        the only difference is the XML declaration is printed when marshalling
        as a document. I will add support for specifying the DOCTYPE. Of course
        since a SAX 1.0 DocumentHandler doesn't allow this, DOCTYPE and
        XML declarations will only be printed when a Writer is used.

XML:    Added support in the unmarshaller for better inheritence checking.
        If a FieldDescriptor is not found for an element, an attempt to
        obtain ClassDescriptor will occur for the given element. If found,
        another check will be performed to find a FieldDescriptor that
        describes a field which is a superclass of type described by the
        class descriptor. (see src/tests/xml/Inheritence.java)

JDO:    Added support for paramaterized type convertors. Currently supported is boolean
        to char convertor using T/F character values (e.g. char[01] or char[FT]). More
        convertors and parameter specification will be added in 0.8.7. (Oleg Nitz
        <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Fixed bug when related object is null and SQL_OTHER type is passed to JDBC
        driver; now properly passes type of identity field. (Reported by
        Eitan Suez <eitan@uptodata.com>).

JDO:    Fixed bug with dirty checking that caused lock to not be acquired and object
        to be deleted if modified, and now properly reporting modified value of object.

JDO:    Fixed the way in which null fields are handled, so has/delete methods are called
        if available, default value is used otherwise, setNull/wasNull are used on the
        JDBC record.

JDO:    Changed callback sequence. jdoRemove is now called on deleted objects,
        unsetDatabase on objects that become transient (including those removes).
        setDatabase is called whenever the object becomes persistent (that is,
        used in a transaction) and passes the database to support lazy loading.

JDO:    Fixed SQLTypes to pick up proper SQL type form field of type java.util.Date.
        Fixed SQLEngine to use SQL type in some calls to setObject.
        (Contributed by Donald Ball <balld@webslingerz.com>)

JDO:    Added quoting to column and table names to support white spaces and keywords
        (Only Postgres, Sybase and SQL Server).

Mapping:    Added a match attribute for the xml element, this is used for allowing
            better inheritence support. Setting this match attribute will restrict,
            or extend the xml names matched by a given XMLFieldDescriptor.

Mapping:    Added resetValue() method to field handler. This generally resets a field to
            it's default value or empties a collection field.

Mapping:    Date type no longer defaults to new date() when field is null, field is no
            longer set to default when null. (Reported by Lincoln Spiteri
            <Lincoln.Spiteri@mobisle.com>)

Mapping:    Fixed mapping loader to complain if get/set methods are not found. Both are
            required to be present, unless a collection field is used which only requires
            a get method. (Reported by Lincoln Spiteri <Lincoln.Spiteri@mobisle.com>)

Mapping:    Added convertor between String and character. (Reported by Donald Ball
            <balld@webslingerz.com>)

Mapping:    To fix problem with compiled class descriptors for XML and mapping file for
            JDO not working together, mapping loading will not attempt to load class
            descriptors. A permanent fix will be included in 0.9 or 1.0.
            (Patiently reported by Andrew Ikon <aikon@niku.com>).

Mapping:    Fixed collection handler to work with arrays of any object type (e.g. strings).


Version 0.8.5  May 12, 2000
---------------------------

JDO:    Remove enumerate collection type. Only get method is required to support
        java.util collections, get/set methods to support arrays. Extended the
        CollectionHandler interface with size() method to assist in validation.

JDO:    Revised the CacheEngine towards dependency support, adding FIFO list to
        determine order of object removal, simplifying the prepare stage. Objects
        will now be removed from the database in the same order they were removed
        by calling Database.remove().

JDO:    Fixes to outer query expressions:
        - JDBCQueryExpression fixed and tested with Access (Christopher
          Elkins <celkins@scardini.com>)
        - OracleQueryExpression fixed not tested with Oracle
          (Sebastien Sahuc <ssahuc@imediation.com>)

JDO:    Now using new OQL parser by default. Added support for is_defined/
        is_undefined (IS NULL), BETWEEN and DISTINCT. (Nissim
         <nissim@panix.com>)

JDO:    Added convertor between java.sql.Date and java.util.Date
        (reported by <Lincoln.Spiteri@mobisle.com>).

JDO:    Improved type convertion for key generators. MAX key generator now
        should work with PostgreSQL. (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

JDO:    Added support for stored procedures in OQLQuery. Now it is possible to
        create queries of the form "CALL sp_something($) AS myapp.Product",
        where sp_something is a stored procedure returning one or more
        ResultSets with the same sequence of fields as Castor-generated SELECT
        for the OQL query "SELECT p FROM myapp.Product p" (for objects without
        relations the sequence is: identity, then all other fields in the same
        order as in mapping.xml). (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

XML:    Added some namespace support to the XML Schema reader. It currently doesn't
        properly handle namespace scoping as you go down the tree, so if you are
        changing your namespace declarations for some reason on sub-elements it
        probably won't work properly and you'll need to wait until Monday when I
        finish it up.

XML:    Fixed problem when using attributes that are of enumerated datatypes,
        the types subpackage was not getting imported (reported by markd@lutris.com)

XML:    Fixed problem when using enumerated datatypes with enumeration values
        that contained Java keywords (reported by markd@lutris.com)

XML:    Support for ODMG 3.0 DArray collection in the XML source code generator.
        When running the source code generator with the FieldInfoFactoryODMG30
        collection fields will use org.odmg.DArray as the collection type for
        interoperability with OODBMS using the ODMG 3.0.
        (Contributed by Frank Thelen <frank.thelen@poet.de>)

Misc:   Support for Java 1.2 collections: Collection, Set, Map. Requires Java 1.2
        to compile, but using reflection can be made to work on Java 1.1.


Version 0.8.4  May 5 2000
--------------------------

XML:    Fixed a ClassLoader issue with the ClassDescriptorResolver

XML:    Added validation back into the generator sources

XML:    Added some changes from Frank Thelen to allow subclassing FieldInfoFactory

XML:    Fixed bug that occured when an enumeration uses uppercase values

XML:    Fixed bug with using datatype

JDO:    Where clause now supports:
        - unary operators: +, -, abs, not
        - binary operators: +, -, *, /, mod, ||, LIKE, >, >=, <, <=, =, !=, and,
        - parenthesis: passed through to SQL as in OQL
        - numbered parameters including user specified type support
        (Nissim <nissim@panix.com>)

JDO:    Fixed bug in Database when used as sychronized resource in a J2EE environment.
        Calling close() will not rollback the transaction until the J2EE server has
        completed two-phase commit and notified it. Database must be registerd with
        a JTA transaction manager using the setTransactionManager option.

JDO:    Fixed bug in key generator when using non-primitive value (e.g. Integer, String).
        Previously SQLEngine create was never called, now it is called and object properly
        recorded in transaction.

Mapping:    Fixed bug that caused exception with inheritance, now inheritance works
            correctly if classes are specified in proper order in the mapping file.
            (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>)

Tests:  Updated test cases, now includes test cases for key generators.
        (Oleg Nitz <on@ibis.odessa.ua>, Arkin <arkin@exoffice.com>)


Version 0.8.3  April 28, 2000
-----------------------------

JDO:    New OQL query engine. Not used by default, see new methods in OQLQueryImpl
        and package org.exolab.castor.jdo.oql.

JDO:    Added support for null fields by calling the relevant setNull() method
        when setting a null field. Does not apply to query parameters yet, does
        not apply to identity fields.

JDO:    Added key generators support. Implemented four algorithms:
        "MAX" - generic "MAX(pk) + 1" algorithm;
        "HIGH/LOW" - generic "HIGH/LOW" algorithm (extendible);
        "IDENTITY" - "SELECT @@identity" for Sybase and SQL Server;
        "SEQUENCE" - "SELECT nextval('..._seq')" for Oracle and PosgreSQL;

JDO:    Added package org.exolab.castor.jdo.drivers which includes RDBMS specific
        factories, query expressions and key generators. Added factories for DB2,
        and SQL Server.

Misc:   Added support for hasXXX()/deleteXXX() methods to determine if a value
        exists when the value is a primitive (thus, cannot be null). Used by both
        JDO and XML.

Misc:   Fixed null pointer exception with collection handler. Deprecated
        checkValidity on field handler (new validation code from XML will come
        shortly).

JDO:    Added and tested outer joins.

Persist:    Added getIdentity() method to TransactionContext().

Misc:   Modified the test harness to run from an XML test file. Added test case
        for type handling (only null fields at the moment) and outer joins.


Version 0.8.2   April 7, 2000
-----------------------------

JDO:    Added experimental update() method to Database interface.

JDO:    Fixed some minor glitches in support for exclusive and db-locked
        access, documented the available access modes.

JDO:    Fixed synchronization support, disabled checkpoint method.
        Fixed bugs in handling of default field values.

JDO:    Fixed circular exception problem in ObjectLock.release.
        (Contributed by Jason Weistein <jasonw@reticular.com>)

Misc:   Documented the locking options in Castor and concurrency support.
        Added the three locking mode to all the test cases.


Version 0.8.1   April 5, 2000
-----------------------------

XML:    Fixed long->object conversion which suffered from a cut and paste bug
        from the integer type.

XML:    Added back inheritence support inside XMLClassDescriptor,
        which was in MarshalInfo, but removed during the upgrade.

XML:    Fixed bug with creating default XML name in XMLClassDescriptorImpl

XML:    Fixed bug with unmarshalling primitive String types.
           -- reported by Remy Maucherat and Kevin Burton

XML:    Fixed bug with namespace support during marshalling of primitive
        and immutable types

XML:    Added back namespace support, which was temporarily removed during
        the upgrade

JDO:    Added Locked mode to provide locking at the database level, as
        opposed to Exclusive mode which provides locking at the cache
        level. Added support for loading/querying with a given access mode.

JDO:    Improved concurrency for shared mode by eliminating write locks when
        modified field is not marked as dirty.

JDO:    Added isClosed method to database. Deprecated checkpoint.

JDO:    Added preliminary support for controlling cache size and removing
        objects from cache.

JDO:    Fixed bug in bind( String) method of OQLQuery.

JDO:    Fixed bug with modified exception not removing copy from cache.

JDO:    Fixed bug with reusing queries.

Misc:   Upgraded test cases to run inside JTF as a test harness.


Version 0.8     March 27, 2000
------------------------------

XML:    support for IDREF/ID has been added back in

XML:    fixed circular reference bug
          -  This was an indirect bug caused by a bug
             in org.exolab.castor.util.Stack

XML:    fixed bug in method naming when type is "ID"

XML:    Updated the Source code generator to work with new Framework
        - Note I currently removed validation support, this will be
          back ASAP
        - There is a known bug with using "binary" type...I'll have
          this fixed ASAP also

XML:    We are now one step closer to using the mapping files with
        Castor XML. A lot of changes have gone into sharing the "descriptor"
        framework between Castor XML and Castor JDO...I can't enumerate all
        the changes in this log, but here are a few:

        - MarshalInfo and MarshalDescriptor have been changed to
          XMLClassDescriptor, and XMLFieldDescriptor respectively, and the
          interfaces have changed so be careful
        - We added the XMLFieldHandler
        - Changed MarshalInfoResolver to ClassDescriptorResolver

JDO:    Placed the ODMG API in the org.exolab.castor.jdo package,
        to be included in the JavaDocs and to enable the introduction
        of Castor (RDBMS) specific features.

JDO:    Moved transaction handling into the Database interface, queries
        are now created from the Database object, JDO servers at the
        implementation factory.

JDO:    Added preliminary support for many-many relations, improved
        support for one-many relations, fixed bug in isModified with
        relations.

JDO:    Added support for pluggable SQL engines (PersistenceFactory),
        listed in the Castor properties file and referenced from the
        JDO configuration file, allowing each database configuration
        file to select the most suitable engine.

JDO:    Extended JDO configuration file to include engine name, plus
        minor modifications to element and attribute names in DTD/Schema,
        and documentation of the configuration file.

JDO:    Upgraded to use QueryExpression to construct SQL query statements
        in database specific syntax.

JDO:    Implemented dirty checking on objects loaded with a shared lock.
        Dirty checking performed on fields within UPDATE statement requiring
        a single SQL operation to update/check dirtyness.

SPI:    Added QueryExpression and KeyGenerator to the SPI. QueryExpression
        is generated from PersistenceFactory. Added way to load factories
        from the Castor properties file.

Persist:    No longer supports identity changes.

Persist:    Rollback of transaction no longer reverts object to their previous
            state due to lock race condition that hampers efficiency. Eliminating
            this feature improves concurrency with optimistic locks.

Misc:   Documentation distribution includes API JavaDocs and JavaDocs for
        all Java classes. Tarball/zip include just the API JavaDocs.
        Web site has been revised accordingly and some links moved around.

Misc:   Updated build.xml file now includes documentation in tarball and
        zip, builds both API JavaDocs and all classes JavaDocs, and does
        not include package.html files in JARs.


Version 0.7.11  March 10, 2000
------------------------------

JDO:     Added support for one-many relations using the new mapping/persist
         mechanisms. Retains support for one-one relations.

Mapping: Introduced CollectionHandler and support for collection fields
         (for one-one and one-many relations), with support for three basic
         collection types: vectors, hashtable, and arrays.

Persist: Added support for attached and non attached relations, singular and
         multi, in both query and commit phase. Required new algorithm for
         preparing the transaction to commit.

Persist: Fixed bug in ObjectLock that could lead to deadlock detection when
         there are more than two threads competing for the same object.
         (contributed by Jim Alateras)

Misc:    Updated build.xml file now builds docs tarball, and builds source
         tarball/zip for expansion with a castor-x.x directory (contributed
         by Kevin Burton)

Examples: Upgraded the JDO example to produce XML output of the query results
         using a Marshaller and the Xerces Serializer.

Examples: Example of XML-Servlet using JDO to load products from the database,
         XML to fire SAX events and the XML-Servlet to apply XSLT transformation
         and produce the HTML page.


Version 0.7.10  March 3, 2000
-----------------------------

JDO:    Upgraded to use new cache mechanism, reducing memory overhead for
        loading. Initial code base for one-many relation support.

Persist: Optimization to the cache mechanism. Now uses fixed-size arrays to
         hold cached objects, eliminating much of the use of handlers.
         Also cleaned some of the API calls.

Persist: The cache mechanism now supports class-level resolution, allowing
         different cache properties for different class types.

Persist: Added initial support for one-many relations. Currently not working,
         but the query engine has been revised to deal with one-many
         relations, and some tests have been working successfully.

Persist: Query mechanism no longer supports scrolling to a particular point,
         due to the need to efficiently retrieve related records.

Mapping: Minor changes to accomodate better creation of relation handlers.


Version 0.7.9  February 25, 2000
--------------------------------

JDO:    Now loads JDO configuration file from ODMG.loadDatabase() which in
        turn loads all the required mapping files. Added jdo-conf DTD which
        has been separated from the mapping DTD. For more info see the JDO
        example.

JDO:    Supports the new mapping API, new mapping DTD. See the JDO example
        for using the new mapping file.

JDO:    Cleaned up SQLEngine query composer using QueryExpr. Will be able to
        support different join and locking syntaxes in the future.

JDO:    Access mode (shared, exclusive, read-only) is now specified at the
        class level in the mapping file and not in the database level as
        before. This allows one transaction to support multiple type of
        locks depending on the object being used.

XML:    A Castor JAR with just the XML module will be created from the
        'jar' target (less than half the size) and also available from
        the FTP.

XML:    Better error reporting in exceptions.

Mapping:    The API for the mapping package has been finalized. Both JDO and DAX
            use the new API, XML support is in the works.

Persist:    Added support for relations (one-one, one-many) in loading,
            creating and deleting of objects. Related objects are now loaded
            from the cache, reloaded only when necessary, locked appropriately.

Misc:   New Ant and build.xml include 100% Java Tar task, improved Javadoc
        task, now also generates zips for binary and source distribution,
        new cvs task gets last snapshot from CVS.


Version 0.7.8  February 10, 2000
--------------------------------

XML:    If annotations are used within elements, or attributes, I add
        these to the Javadoc comments of the generated source.
        example:
        <attribute name="foo" type="string">
           <annotation>
              <info>This comment will be included in the Java source</info>
           </annotation>
        </attribute>

JDO:    Fixed bug in SQLEngine not deleting row. (Contributed by
        Oleg Nitz)

JDO:    Fixed examples not setting reference of related class for
        Inventory (Contributed by Steve Muench)

XML:    Fixed bug with package name for top-level types, reported by
        Kevin Burton

XML:    Added support for "annotation" as a child for most of the structures.

XML:    Added more support for "datatype"


Version 0.7.7  February 4, 2000
-------------------------------

XML:     Changed "archetype" to "type" in accordance with the 19991217
         XML Schema draft

XML:     Added support for "datatype"

XML:     Fixed a bug with the Base64 encoder which caused it to throw an
         ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception when it recieved a zero-length array

JDO:     Test for duplicate primary key only if select operation failed
         using either the SQL state (X/Open error code) or by running a
         separate select statement. (Contributed by Oleg Nitz)

Persist: Added scrolling capability to QueryResult and PersistenceQuery
         allowing more efficient collection implementation on top of JDBC
         drivers that support cursors. (Idea by Oleg Nitz)

Persist: Application level APIs now deal with PersistenceEngine and not
         with CacheEngine directly. All classes that extended CacheEngine
         have been eliminated.

Persist: Added an SPI package that defines interfaces for Castor
         service providers (i.e. persistence implementations).

Persist: Added support for XA transactions through an XAResouceImpl that
         manages transaction context creation and association. Interface
         initially used in DAX.

Misc:    New verion of Xerces (1.0.2+) and XSL:P included in this build.
         The Xerces update fixes several HTML printing problems, the XSL:P
         build included in this release is 4x faster.


Version 0.7.6  February 2, 2000
-------------------------------

DAX:    First appearance of the DAX implementation based on the Mozilla
        Directory SDK, using the persistence cache engine and the new
        mapping DTD.

Mapping: The mapping package has been upgraded to the new mapping DTD,
         and gained an XML sub-package that can be used to serialize
         mapping information. MappingResolver and MappingHelper are used
         to convert mapping files into descriptors.

Mapping: Added type strings (array of String) and big-integer
         (java.math.BigInteger).

Docs:   Contents of readme file and changelog are now available from the
        HTML documentation.


Version 0.7.5  January 28, 2000
-------------------------------

JDO:    Finalized the transaction and locking semantics and started working
        on a document describing it. I would like to thank Chris Raber of
        GemStone for validating some of the design choices.

JDO:    SQLEngine now employs two schemes for detecting duplicate primary
        keys. For some databases it will use a separate SELECT statement,
        for those that properly return an SQL error it will use the X/Open
        error code (contributed by Oleg Nitz).

JDO:    Dirty check mechanism has been disabled since 0.7.4, although
        the new API enables any number of approaches. The dirty check
        mechanisms will be re-introduced in 0.7.6.

JDO:    Duplicate keys are now only detected inside a transaction, unless
        a similar object is locked by another transaction, fixing a
        potential problem in duplicate key reporting when object is
        removed from persistence storage directly.

Persist: Fixed deadlock detection algorithm. Previous algorithm would
         allow the second transaction to commit but rollback the first
         one. New algorithm allows first transaction to complete, but
         detects deadlock in second one and terminates it.

CMP:    No CMP engine yet, but the design architecture has been reviewed
        by RMH and supports the proper CMP semantics. Still need to
        determine how to deal with out-of-transaction methods. New
        architecture allows Castor to be used as CMP or BMP implementation.

Docs:   Finally there. Added an Ant taskdef (style) and a task (doc) to
        produce documenation in build/doc and the doc JAR. Sources are
        XML, output is HTML, magic is XSLT.

Docs:   Added document describing persistence architecture and started
        working on document describing transaction and locking semantics.

Misc:   The examples have been broken to two packages: examples will contain
        brief and illustrative code showing how to develop with Castor,
        while tests will contain unit tests.


Version 0.7.4  January 23, 2000
-------------------------------

JDO:    New persistence engine. JDO package is now an ODMG API
        implementation on top of the concurrency engine and an SQL 92
        connector.

JDO:    New query mechanism allows multiple objects to be retrieved as
        an enumeration.

JDO:    Revised concurrency engine with query mechanism, object caching,
        transactions and locking, now resides in package
        org.exolab.castor.persist.

JDO:    Added SQL type conversion. A field mapping may now specify the
        SQL datatype using SQL names (numeric, varchar, etc). If the SQL
        type differs than the Java field type automatic conversion will
        apply. Convertors are provided for short/int/long, float/double,
        string, character/byte array, date and BigDecimal.

JDO:    Added dirty check attribute to field mapping. Fields that are
        marked for dirty check will be checked against the database to
        prevent concurrent updates. A concurrent update attempt will
        cause the transaction to rollback. When acquiring an exclusive
        lock at the beginning of the transaction no dirty checking
        occurs.

XML:    Added support for positive-integer and negative-integer
        (Source Generator)

XML:    Added support for Validation during Unmarshalling. Enabled by
        default.  (Marshalling Framework)

XML:    Changed Exceptions from SAXException and IOException to
        MarshalException and ValidationException (Framework + Source
        Generator) -- Sorry for the inconvenience.

Docs:   This is the first release to see some documentation beyond the
        README file. The docs are located in the directory src/doc in XML
        and are transformed into HTML in the target directory build/doc.
        The transformation stylesheets are contained in src/doc/style.

Misc:   Three layer persistence architecture introduced in this release.
        Each package implements the top level applications API (EJB,
        ODMG, DAX, JNDI), org.exolab.castor.persist implements the
        concurrency layer (transaction, locking, caching) and connectors
        are used to talk to the underlying persistent storage.

Misc:   ObjectDesc, FieldDesc and related classed have no been
        consolidated from the three modules and placed in a single
        package org.exolab.castor.mapping.

Misc:   FieldDesc adds required flag and readable/writeable flag.
        ObjectDesc adds key field (formerly JDO primary key) that is
        used across all the modules.

Misc:   Type conversion errors are now reported more accurately before,
        and a type conversion mechanism is being concieved.


Version 0.7.2  January 12, 2000
-------------------------------

JDO:    Implemented object caching. Each transaction gets a single view
        of the object and may change that object without affecting the
        other transaction. Upon commit the shared view is updated. If the
        transaction is aborted, the object is returned to its original
        state.

JDO:    Implemented two phase commit through the XAResource interface,
        allow Castor to perform a prepare stage followed by a separate
        commit stage. Improved the design of the checkpoint method.

JDO:    Now implements the XAResource interface and can be used as
        an XA resource in a JTA/JTS transaction server.

Misc:   Changed location of properties file to fix class name mismatch
        bug. Added example sources to the tar ball distribution.
        Rechecked the libraries to prevent build issues.


Version 0.7.1  January 11, 2000
-------------------------------

DAX:    First release of some DAX code

JDO:    Temporary fix to rollback of objects in lieu of missing
        CacheEngine (JDO)

JDO:    Perliminary code for XAResource support in Castor JDO

XML:    Added some support for derived archetypes (types)
        - only extension derivation is possible at this time,
         so deriveBy must be "extension".

XML:    Added binary, and boolean types to the source code generator
        for Castor XML
        - binary types will be mapped to byte[] by default, and will
          be Base64 encoded and decoded automatically
        - boolean type is an enumeration of "true" or "false"

XML:    Added support for byte[] -> encoding and decoding from Base64


Version 0.7  January 7, 2000
----------------------------

- First release of Castor JDO (Java Data Objects) supporting the
  ODMG API for object persistence over RDBMS.

- Changed MarshalDescriptor to better hide the reflection
  - uses #setValue, #getValue, instead of #getReadMethod, #getWriteMethod

- Changed the way validation is handled, added numerous
  validation related classes to org.exolab.castor.xml .

- Fixed bug with using primitives as PCDATA content of elements.

- Added timeInstant, NMToken and NCName types


Version 0.6  December 20, 1999
------------------------------

- Marshaller package name changed to org.exolab.castor.xml
  (was org.exolab.xml.marshal).

- DSML implementation supporting JNDI and Mozilla Directory SDK.
  Importer/exporter sets for both directory APIs and XML-based
  search and import descriptors.

- Added configuration file support (castor.properties) specifying
  parser and serializer to use and default modes of operation.

- Change build environment to Ant.



