OSCore 2.2.5

Contains essential functionality for any J2EE application. From these basic classes, other applications or programming algorithms can be built upon.
Installation:

There are two different ways to install OSCore: using oscore.jar as a library in your application or deploying oscore.jar as an EJB module to an application server.

Major Features:

1. TextUtils useful functions for manipulating Strings. Examples include: extracting primitive types, verifying e-mail addresses, splitting and joining, escaping characters, hyperlinking text, indentation, etc.
2. XMLUtils common XML functions such as parsing and printing DOM documents, performing XSL transformations and selecting nodes using XPATH.
3. EJBUtils common EJB and JNDI based functions such as looking up and narrowing home interfaces and looking up entity-beans directly.
4. BeanUtils useful methods for accessing values of objects using reflection.
5. MultipartException a special type of Exception designed to be subclassed for holding many child Exceptions. Useful if validation can throw many Exceptions and they all need to be wrapped up into and report (for example).
6. Data an Object wrapper for binary data.
7. OrderedMap a java.util.Map implementation that retains the order items were added in.
8. DataUtil a small class that helps convert Objects to their primitive types.
9. DateUtil a small class for handling ISO 8601 International Date formats.

Enhancements:

• Bug
• • [CORE-63] - TextUtils.br() does not generate XHTML
  • [CORE-65] - URL is not linked if the last URL on the page is "http://"
  • [CORE-67] - URLs with quotes are valid, but URLUtils does not show them as valid
• Improvement: [CORE-71] - Allow overriding of the encoding of high bit characters in htmlEncode