Author: rdonkin Date: Thu Feb 16 13:55:45 2006 New Revision: 378372 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=378372&view=rev Log: A few cosmetic changes. I think I prefer jar file to jarfile.
Modified: jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Modified: jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt?rev=378372&r1=378371&r2=378372&view=diff ============================================================================== --- jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (original) +++ jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Thu Feb 16 13:55:45 2006 @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ == New Features == -* Jarfiles now have release-numbers embedded in the names, for easier management. +* Jar files now have release-numbers embedded in the names, for easier management. -* New jarfile commons-logging-adapters-xxx.jar is now provided. This can be +* New jar file commons-logging-adapters-xxx.jar is now provided. This can be used to resolve class cast conflicts where parts of commons-logging are deployed via different classloaders. It is not expected to be frequently used; it is only necessary in situations where a container has deployed @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ when a webapp was undeployed. An internal change fixes some situations where that occurs (by using weak references); this requires no action on the part of users of this library. In addition, a utility class ServletContextCleaner is - provided in the jarfile which is expected to resolve this problem in all + provided in the jar file which is expected to resolve this problem in all situations; however it is necessary for an application to define this class as a ServletContextListener in the web.xml in order for this to be invoked. @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ java 1.1 but this has not been tested; the unit tests certainly don't run on that version. -== Distributed jarfiles == +== Distributed Jar Files == File commons-logging-nn.jar is the one most people will want. It provides the base implementation and adapters to a number of popular logging libraries. @@ -151,19 +151,19 @@ File commons-logging-adapters-nn.jar includes only the adapters to various concrete logging libraries. When commons-logging-nn.jar or commons-logging-api-nn.jar is deployed in a container classpath, then this -adapters-only jarfile should be deployed in the webapp, not the complete JCL +adapters-only jar file should be deployed in the webapp, not the complete JCL distribution. This ensures that the core Log/LogFactory classes are only deployed via one classloader, thus avoiding "Log4JLogger does not implement Log" and similar problems. File commons-logging-api-nn.jar provides no adapters to external logging libraries, just the internally implemented SimpleLog and NoOpLog classes. This -jarfile may be used as a declared dependency for projects that care about -"transitive dependencies" and can't handle jarfiles such as commons-logging-nn.jar +jar file may be used as a declared dependency for projects that care about +"transitive dependencies" and can't handle jar files such as commons-logging-nn.jar which have "optional" dependencies depending on how they are used. In addition, -this jarfile can be useful for "rebundlers" of JCL who recompile the source-code +this jar file can be useful for "rebundlers" of JCL who recompile the source-code but who may not be able to recompile against the full set of supported adapters; -such projects should be able to at least recreate an equivalent of this jarfile. +such projects should be able to at least recreate an equivalent of this jar file. == General Notes == @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ deprecated for a long while. Replacement class Log4JLogger should be a completely transparent replacement for all commons-logging users. -* package.html files are no longer present in the jarfiles, removing nuisance +* package.html files are no longer present in the jar files, removing nuisance javadoc warnings when building javadoc for apps using jcl. * In several cases, LogConfigurationException objects were being wrapped in --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]