[castor-dev] Castor 1.3 RC1 released

[Werner Guttmann]

Dear users

I am very pleased to announce that a first release candidate of Castor
1.3 has just been made available and can be downloaded from the Codehaus
at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3rc1

This is in preparation for the upcoming 1.3 release (feature release) ,
and there's a couple of non-trivial changes/enhancements in selected
areas we'd like to bring to your attention:

- Castor 1.3rc1 and later requires Java 5.0. As such, support for Java
1.4 has been dropped.
- New binaries packaging: XML (data binding) has been moved to a
separate (and new) JAR.
- HTML documentation for older releases (up to 1.2) will be available
for browsing as well.
- The XML code generator has been extended to support generation of
JDO-specific descriptor classes based on annotated XML schemas.
- A new reference guide has been added, moving parts of the
documentation to a new format, supporting HTML, chunked HTML and PDF by
default.

I will follow up with more details especially on the latter two features
in separate emails.

As always, for details about features added and bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes at

http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

For information about future releases, please have a look at the project
road map (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR), and please report any
regression issues at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR.

Regards
Werner Guttmann
Castor, committer



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