name-of-library-x.y.z.jar
-A description and url should be added here.
+A description and url should be added here. Please keep track
+of the documentation! If there are things to be done regarding
+a certain library, this is stated in a todo field
+
+Make sure to check in the libs with the binary flag. If you
+forgot to do so you can fire up "cvs admin -kb [name_of_lib]"
Now the descriptions in alphabetical order:
avalon-framework-4.0
------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
-url : http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/
-description:
+version : 4.0
+url : http://avalon.apache.org/framework
+description: The Avalon Framework consists of
+ interfaces that define relationships
+ between commonly used application
+ components, best-of-practice pattern
+ enforcements, and several lightweight
+ convenience implementations of the
+ generic components.
+todo : update to 4.1.4
+
batik
------------------------------------------------
version : ??
url : http://xml.apache.org/batik/
-description:
+description: batik is for images in the Scalable Vector
+ Graphics (SVG)
+todo : check if necessary / update to version 1.1.1
+ MIR compiles without it. Is it (still)
+ necessary?
-commons-configuration-1.0-dev
+commons-beanutils
------------------------------------------------
-version : 1.0
+version : 1.6.1
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
+description: Commons-BeanUtils provides
+ easy-to-use wrappers around the Java
+ reflection and introspection APIs.
+
+
+commons-collections
+------------------------------------------------
+version : 2.1
url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
-description: needed for parsing the configuration properties file.
+description: needed for parsing the configuration
+ properties file and provides more useful collections
+ like a LRUCache
-commons-net20030111
+commons-logging
------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
+version : 1.0.3
url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
-description: needed for the mail feature
-todo : update
+description: Commons-Logging is a wrapper around
+ a variety of logging API
+ implementations.
-cos
+commons-net
------------------------------------------------
-version : 06/19/2001 (probably
-url :
-description: servlet utilities by O'Reyly
-todo : replace due to the license
+version : 1.0
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
+description: needed for the mail feature
fop
------------------------------------------------
version : ??
url : http://xml.apache.org/fop/
-description: rename and/or update
+description:
+todo : The latest stable version is FOP-0.20.5
+ check if necessary
freemarker.jar / freemarker-utility.jar
------------------------------------------------
version : 1.6.2 (probably)
url : http://fm-classic.sourceforge.net
-description:
+description: template engine
todo : update to version 1.7.5
template changes involved on update
gnu-regexp
------------------------------------------------
-version : 1.0.8
+version : 1.1.4
url : http://www.cacas.org/java/gnu/regexp/
description: GNU regular expression library
-todo : update to version 1.1.4
+todo : check if to be replaced with jakarta
+ commons regexp
+
+
+iText
+------------------------------------------------
+version : ??
+url : http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
+description: PDF
+todo : check if necessary
jimi
------------------------------------------------
version : ??
-url :
-description:
+url : http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/
+description: Jimi is a class library for managing
+ images
+todo : check for update / check if necessary
log4j
------------------------------------------------
-version : 1.2.6
-url : http://jakarta.apache.org
+version : 1.2.8
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/
description: Jakarta Log4J standard library for
the logging layer of MIR.
-todo : update to version 1.2.8
-logkit-1.0
+logkit
------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
-url :
-description:
+version : 1.0
+url : http://apache.serveftp.org/apache-site/dist/avalon/logkit/latest/
+description: LogKit is an easy to use logging
+ toolkit.
+depends on : avalon
+todo : update to version 1.2 ??
-lucene-1.2
+lucene
------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
-url : http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene
-description: a search engine
+version : 1.2
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/
+description: Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance,
+ full-featured text search engine written
+ entirely in Java.
multex
description: nested exceptions
todo : rename to multex-3.jar
-
-poolman
-------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
-url :
-description:
-
-
postgresql
------------------------------------------------
-version : 7.1.3 (probably)
-url :
+version : 7.4 (jdbc2-version)
+url : http://jdbc.postgresql.org
description: JDBC driver for postgresql database
- includes retepTools
-todo : check for current version
-
-retepTools
+velocity
------------------------------------------------
-version : see postgresql
-url : see postgresql
-description: see postgresql
-todo : check if necessary at all
-
+version : 1.3.1
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
+description: template engine
-saxon
+commons-pool-1.1
------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
-url :
-description:
-
-
-strutsmesg
-------------------------------------------------
-version : ??
-url :
-description:
-todo : update
+version : 1.1
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons-pool
+description: generic object pooling framework
+commons-dbcp-1.1
+-----------------------------------------------
+version : 1.1
+url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons-dbcp
+description: database connection pooling library