Long awaited Jakarta Commons Lang 2.1 is now available

June 20, 2005February 5, 2010 Content Team 2435 Views 0 Comments Java News

Jakarta Commons Lang 2.1 final is now available for download. This long awaited new version of Lang has the following new features

* New package org.apache.commons.lang.mutable containing basic classes that hold an Object or primitive and provide both get and set methods;
* New DurationFormatUtils providing various methods for formatting durations;
* New CharEncoding containing definitions of constants for character encoding work;
* New CharUtils containing utilities for working with characters;
* Various new methods in ArrayUtils, BooleanUtils, ClassUtils, ObjectUtils, StringUtils, SystemUtils, Validate, WordUtils, EqualsBuilder, ExceptionUtils, NumberUtils, DateUtils, FastDateFormat, and StopWatch;
* New short prefix style for ToStringBuilder;
* More flags in ReflectionToStringBuilder to control the output with regards to statics;
* Renaming of the enum package to enums for JDK1.5 compliance;
* Various bug fixes and enhancements

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