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Commons Lang
\[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang Lang\] aims to provide: Wiki Markup
- Comprehensive String handling utilities
- Enumerated types (pre JDK 1.5)
- Nested exceptions (pre JDK 1.4)
- Builders to create hashCode, equals, toString and compareTo methods
- Utilities for Object, Date and Numbers
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The Javadoc of the latest version is \[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/index.html available\](2.1) is available.
The Javadoc of the CVS version (development) is available.
Development plan for 2.
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- Bug fixes
- StrTokenizer
- StrBuilder
- VariableFormatter/interpolator - 18962
Other ideas
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[21663|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=
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Wiki Markup 29673 \[lang\] [ExceptionUtils]: new getCause() methodname (for tomcat-exception) - *Confusing*
Wiki Markup 29692 \[lang\] String indentation feature request - *Needs design as a non-simple problem*
- 29794 Add convenience format(long) methods to FastDateFormat - Needs improvement
Pushed back
21663 \[lang\] AddWiki Markup support in [ToStringStyle] for [DateFormat]. - *Grows quickly into commons-convert*
Wiki Markup [27643|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27643] \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].newInstance method - *Seems unnecessary*
StringBuffer replacement - Probably 2.2/3.0. A lot of work in this I'd imagine.Wiki Markup [29149|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=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.*
\\Wiki Markup [26659|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26659] \[lang\] add method to [DateUtils] to get the distance between 2 dates - *Mainly replicated by [DurationFormatUtils], or non-obvious*
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(meaning closed in Bugzilla)
27592Wiki Markup
[WordUtils][29692|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29692] \[lang\] String
capitalizeindentation
improvementfeature
DONE*23557 WordUtils.capitalizeFully(String str) should take a delimiter - DONErequest - *
Needs design as a non-simple problem*
27778Wiki Markup
add remove methods to [ArrayUtils][22172|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22172] \[lang\]
DONE*StringTokenizer replacement: (DONE - Tokenizer)[DateUtils].parseCVS behavior parsing "h:mm z" - *
Moved to sandbox*
25227Wiki Markup
StringEscapeUtils[26297|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26297] \[lang\] [
.unescapeHtml() doesn't handle hex entities - *DONE*BitSetUtils]
class, toIndexArray and fromIndexArray
- 21333 Add TimeoutController - Class in HttpClient. Leaving til 3.0 as not much movement on it
Wiki Markup 27640 \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].primitivesToWrappers method - *DONE*
22717 \[lang\] [MutableNumbers] - *see lang.mutable.*Wiki Markup [30674|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30674] Support [HttpClient]'s [DateParser] class - *This is basically a Date parseDate(String dateValue, String\[\] dateFormats) method.*
- LocaleUtils - including toLocale(String,String)
- 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.