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Commons Lang

Wiki Markup\[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang Lang\] aims to provide:

• 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 (2.1) is \[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/index.html available\].unmigrated-wiki-markup

The Javadoc of the CVS version (development) is \[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/apidocs/index.html available\].

Development plan for 2.2

1. Bug fixes
2. StrTokenizer
3. StrBuilderunmigrated-wiki-markup
4. [VariableFormatter]/interpolator - \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18962 18962\] \\ \\
   
   

Other ideas

1. Wiki Markup

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   [21663|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21663

   21663\

   ] \[lang\] Add support in [ToStringStyle] for [DateFormat]. - *Grows quickly into commons-convert*

2. Wiki Markup

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   [27643|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=

   27643

   27643

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   ] \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].newInstance method - *Seems unnecessary*

3. Wiki Markup

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   [29149|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=

   29149

   29149

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   ] \[lang\] [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.*

4. Wiki Markup

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   [26659|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=

   26659

   26659

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   ] \[lang\] add method to [DateUtils] to get the distance between 2 dates - *Mainly replicated by [DurationFormatUtils], or non-obvious*

5. Wiki Markup

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   [29692|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=

   29692

   29692

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   ] \[lang\] String indentation feature request - *Needs design as a non-simple problem*

6. Wiki Markup

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   [22172|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22172

   22172\

   ] \[lang\] [DateUtils].parseCVS behavior parsing "h:mm z" - *Moved to sandbox*

7. Wiki Markup

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   [26297|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26297

   26297\

   ] \[lang\] [BitSetUtils] class, toIndexArray and fromIndexArray

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

9. Wiki Markup

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   [30674|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
    

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