JavaUtil 3.0-Alpha-5 -- A Utility Library for Developing Java Software
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University

OVERVIEW

JavaUtil is a utility library to speed the development of 
Java software. We developed it over multiple years during 
our internal development efforts, and it has reached a 
point of stability where we have decided to make it 
available to the outside world. The JavaUtil package aims 
to fill in the gaps of the Apache Commons and similar 
utility libraries out there.  Features include convenience
classes for string, collections, arrays, dates, iterators, 
colors, logging, unit testing, a little bit of basic 
statistics, database queries, caching and more.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.4 is a maintenance release. It adds several APIs.

Version 2.3 is a maintenance release. Dependencies have been updated, 
syntax updated to utilize Java 1.7 features, and some compile time 
warnings have been eliminated.

Version 2.2 is a maintenance release. There are no new features.

Version 2.0.6 is a bug fix release. There are no new features. We moved the
package to our new public Maven repository (see below).

REQUIREMENTS

The current version is known to work with Oracle Java 7. It is
expected to work with OpenJDK 7 as well. 

INSTALLATION

The easiest way to get JavaUtil is using Maven. It is available from
the https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/ repository. 
Use the following dependency declaration:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.eurekaclinical</groupId>
    <artifactId>javautil</artifactId> 
    <version>3.0-Alpha-5</version>
</dependency>

It is also available in tarball and zip file formats from
https://github.com/eurekaclinical/javautil.git. Put 
javautil-3.0-Alpha-5.jar on your classpath.

CONTACTING US

Please send an email to help@eurekaclinical.org for support or questions.

LICENSING

JavaUtil is freely available as open source under the Apache License,
Version 2.0. A copy of the license is in the LICENSE file provided in
this distribution.

JavaUtil is Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Emory University.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please see https://github.com/eurekaclinical/javautil.git for technical
documentation and more information.
