Changes Report

Release History

VersionDateDescription
3.0Not yet released
3.0rc127-Jul-2006
3.0b124-Jun-2006
3.0a117-Feb-2005
2.0.2Not yet released
2.0.128-Dec-2005


Release 3.0 - Not yet released

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fixFixed the spelling of CharSetXmlWriterFactory, which made the class basically useless. Fixes XMLRPC-100. Thanks to Matt Preston.jochen
fixFixed that the WebServer didn't wait before retrying to bind to the server socket. Thanks to Stanislav Miklik.jochen
fixFixed an endless loop, if the WebServer threw a BindException. Thanks to Stanislav Miklik.jochen
fixA NullPointerException was triggered, if the BasicEncoding was set to null. Fixes XMLRPC-104. Thanks to Landon Fuller.jochen
fixBasic authentication didn't work, if the base64 encoded string with user name and password contained more than 72 characters. Fixes XMLRPC-104. Thanks to Landon Fuller.jochen
fixBasic authentication didn't work with the commons http transport, because the commons httpclient wasn't configured to send credentials by default. (It was waiting for a challenge.)jochen
fixBasic authentication didn't work with the commons http transport, if user name or password contained non-ASCII characters. Fixes XMLRPC-105.jochen
fixThe releaseWorker() method wasn't called for the server. Thanks to Randall Bryant.jochen
fixFixed a bug in the web servers thread pool, which caused that threads haven't been reused.jochen
fixDocumentation improvements Thanks to Jason McLaurin.jochen
addAdded documentation on custom data types.jochen
addThe XmlRpcLiteHttpTransport is now creating a socket in a protected methods. This allows to switch to alternative socket implementations. Fixes XMLRPC-107. Thanks to Catalin Hritcu.jochen
fixMore documentation fixes. Fixes XMLRPC-108. Thanks to Catalin Hritcu.jochen
fixFixed an invalid FAQ example. Fixes XMLRPC-109. Thanks to Catalin Hritcu.jochen

Release 3.0rc1 - 27-Jul-2006

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fixAdded a missing "synchronized" to the TimingOutCallback. Thanks to Alan Burlison.jochen
fixFixed an invalid index, that caused the ReflectiveXmlRpcHandler to fail detecting a method. Fixes XMLRPC-94. Thanks to Chris Conrad.jochen
addAdded documentation for accessing an SSL server. Fixes XMLRPC-93.jochen
addA null parameter list is now treated as an empty object array. Fixes XMLRPC-96. Thanks to Jimisola Laursen.jochen
fixThe type long was missing in types.apt. Fixes XMLRPC-97. Thanks to Jimisola Laursen.jochen

Release 3.0b1 - 24-Jun-2006

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addAdd connectionTimeout and replyTimeout in RPC clients. CommonsTransport support connection and reply timeout, liteHttpTransport only support reply timeouthgomez
fixThe value created by HttpUtil.encodeBasicAuthentication(...) was terminated with a line feed, which is invalid for use in HTTP headers. Thanks to Marek Ludha.jochen
addadd support for BigDecimal and BigInteger in extensions.hgomez
fixNested object arrays could not be parsed. Thanks to Walter Mundt.jochen
fixThe "string" tag could not be parsed. Thanks to Walter Mundt.jochen
addAdded the DynamicHandlerMapping. Fixes XMLRPC-76. Thanks to Walter Mundt.jochen
fixXmlRpcException.printStackTrace() was throwing an NPE, if no linked exception was present. Thanks to Walter Mundt.jochen
addThe project is now splitted into three jar files: common, client, and server.jochen
fixThe Base64 encoder doesn't accept buffers of length 0. Such a buffer was passed, if the byte array to encode has itself length 0. Thanks to Brad Karp.jochen
fixHTTP/1.0 requires a content-length header. The Lite HTTP transport doesn't support HTTP/1.1, so it refuses the "contentLengthOptional" setting from now on. Fixes XMLRPC-79.jochen
addAdded support for initializable handlers. Thanks to Mark Petrovic.jochen
addAdded the TimingOutCallback, which allows to abort a request, if the server doesn't reply within a given time. Fixes XMLRPC-56. Thanks to Ken Weiner.jochen
fixFixed that dateTime values must not include timezone values.hgomez
addThe XmlRpcServlet allows to configure its "enabledForExtensions" value as an init parameter. Fixes XMLRPC-84. Thanks to Denis Carniel.jochen
addIt is now possible to create and initialize handler objects per request.jochen
fixAdded partial support for automatic conversion of object arrays to lists, or vectors. Same for maps to hash tables, or properties. Fixes XMLRPC-89.jochen

Release 3.0a1 - 17-Feb-2005

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addComplete rewrite, adding vendor extensions: Streaming mode, support for all primitive Java types, nulls, DOM elements, and JAXB objects.jochen

Release 2.0.2 - Not yet released

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fixA missing increment in LiteXmlRpcTransport.initConnection() prevented, that the method could finally fail, resulting in a never ending loop. Fixes XMLRPC-67. Thanks to Mike Bailey.jochen

Release 2.0.1 - 28-Dec-2005

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fixThe Webserver class was unable to handle basic authentication, because the BASE64 codec wasn't initialized. Fixes XMLRPC-68. Thanks to Johan Oskarson.jochen
fixThe characters 0x20, 0xe000, and 0x10000 have been escaped without reason. Fixes XMLRPC-69. Thanks to Claude Zervas.jochen
fixThe wrong version of commons-codec was downloaded by build.xml. Fixes XMLRPC-73. Thanks to Thomas Mohaupt.jochen
addAdded the CommonsXmlRpcTransportFactory. Thanks to Jimisola Laursen.jochen
addAdded the possibility to specify a timezone for interpreting incoming date values. Thanks to Henry Story.jochen
addUpgrade to commons-httpclient 3.0.jochen