Networking Utilities Realease-Notes
Author: Manfred Duchrow
Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Manfred Duchrow. All rights reserved.
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VERSION 2.0.0 (29/11/2014), 109 Unit Tests

* Upgraded to Java 6

* Moved all classes (except UniformResourceLocator) to other component (PF-Server).

* UniformResourceLocator
  > Added
    - public static int getDefaultPortForScheme(String scheme)
    - public void appendPath(String path)
    - public void setPathRelative(String path) 
    
  > Added new constructors
    - public UniformResourceLocator(String scheme, String serverName, String requestURI, String... queryParams)
    - public UniformResourceLocator(String scheme, String serverName, int port, String requestURI, String... queryParams) 

  > Improved check for malformed URLs when parsing
  
  > Added Serializable

* New classes
  > NetUtil
  > HttpUtil
  > HttpMethod
  > UserAgent
  > ClientRequest
  > ServerResponse
  > RequestHeaderNames
  > ResponseHeaderNames

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VERSION 1.6 (September 30, 2012), 39 Unit Tests

* RequestServer
  > Added
    - inst-var connectionIdleTimeout with getter/setter
	- public RequestServer(int port, int idleTimeout)
	- public RequestServer(int port, int idleTimeout, ExceptionHandler exHandler)
	- public int getPort()
	
  > Changed methods to handle SocketTimeoutException by closing the connection
    - BinarySocketConnection.getData()
    - TextSocketConnection.readLine()

* BinaryRequestServer
  > Added constructors
    - public BinaryRequestServer(int port, ExceptionHandler exHandler)
	- public BinaryRequestServer(int port, int idleTimeout, ExceptionHandler exHandler)
	- public BinaryRequestServer(int port, int idleTimeout)
	- public BinaryRequestServer(int port)

* TextRequestServer
  > Added constructors
    - public TextRequestServer(int port, ExceptionHandler exHandler)
	- public TextRequestServer(int port, int idleTimeout, ExceptionHandler exHandler)
	- public TextRequestServer(int port, int idleTimeout)
	- public TextRequestServer(int port)

* UniformResourceLocator
  > Added
    - public void clearParameters()
	- public int getNumberOfParameters()

  > Changed signature
    public Enumeration getParameterNames()
	to
	public Enumeration<String> getParameterNames()
	
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VERSION 1.5 ( September 15, 2011 )

* UniformResourceLocator
  > Added
    - public void removeParameter(String name) 

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VERSION 1.4 ( November 17, 2010 )

* New dependency
  > PF-Text

* New classes
  > UniformResourceLocator

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VERSION 1.3 ( August 23, 2006 )

* BinarySocketConnection
  > Changed public byte[] getData() to block until data comes in which
    avoids unnecessary cpu time consuming looping 

* PortListener
  > Added
    - public boolean isOpen() 
    - public int getPort() 
    
* RequestServer
  > Changed initialize() to check isOpen() of PortListener and to 
    react accordingly	
    
  > Changed return value of initialize() to boolean
    
  > Moved all logic from run() to new method
    - protected void listen()
    
  > Changed run() to close the socket in case of a RuntimeException

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VERSION 1.2 ( July 30, 2004 )

* New classes
  - SocketConnection
  - RequestProcessor
  - RequestServer
  - BinarySocketConnection
  - BinaryRequestServer

* TextSocketConnection
  - Changed superclass to SocketConnection
  - Moved many methods to new superclass SocketConnection

* TextRequestProcessor
  - Changed super interface to RequestProcessor

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VERSION 1.1 ( February 28, 2003 )

* Moved interface ExceptionHandler from PF-Net to PF-Utilities

* Moved class ExceptionIgnorer from PF-Net to PF-Utilities

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VERSION 1.0 ( December 3, 2002 )

* Initial version with the following classes
  - BaseTextRequestProcessor
  - ConnectionPool
  - ExceptionHandler
  - ExceptionIgnorer
  - PortListener
  - TextRequestProcessor
  - TextRequestServer
  - TextSocketConnection

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