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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21663 21663\] \[lang\] Add support in [ToStringStyle] for [DateFormat]. - *Grows quickly into commons-convert*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27643 27643\] \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].newInstance method - *Seems unnecessary*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29149 29149\] \[lang\] [StringEscapeUtils].unescapeHtml() doesn't handle an empty entity - *Empty entity is in fact illegal HTML, so need to decide if we should ignore. Current behaviour seems acceptable as we're not in the work with bad HTML market.*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26659 26659\] \[lang\] add method to [DateUtils] to get the distance between 2 dates - *Mainly replicated by [DurationFormatUtils], or non-obvious*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29692 29692\] \[lang\] String indentation feature request - *Needs design as a non-simple problem*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22172 22172\] \[lang\] [DateUtils].parseCVS behavior parsing "h:mm z" - *Moved to sandbox*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26297 26297\] \[lang\] [BitSetUtils] class, toIndexArray and fromIndexArray

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21333 21333\] Add [TimeoutController] - *Class in [HttpClient]. Leaving til 3.0 as not much movement on it*

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   \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30674 30674\] Support [HttpClient]'s [DateParser] class - *This is basically a Date parseDate(String dateValue, String\[\] dateFormats) method.*

10. LocaleUtils - including toLocale(String,String)
11. CloneUtils - multiple ways to clone an object
    

Articles

This article http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/29392/0/page/6 discusses some of the interesting classes in Commons Lang with real world examples.