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<h1>The Jakarta Commons <em>IO</em> Component</h1>
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 <a href="#Introduction">[Introduction]</a> <a href="#Dependencies">[Dependencies]</a> 
<a href="#Release%20Info">[Release Info]</a> <a href="#Committers">[Committers]</a> 
<a href="#Action%20Items">[Action Items]</a> <br>
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<a name="Introduction"></a> 
<h3>1.  INTRODUCTION</h3>
  
<p>The <em>IO</em> Component contains a set of Java classes that provide I/O
functionality above and beyond what the JDK provides out of the box.&nbsp;</p>
 
<h3>2.  DEPENDENCIES</h3>
  
<p>The <em>IO</em> component is dependent upon the following external components
for development and use:</p>
 
<ul>
 <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se">Java Development Kit</a>     (Version
1.2 or later)</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.junit.org">JUnit Testing Framework</a>     (Version
3.7 or later) - for unit tests only, not required     for deployment</li>
 <li>Apache Jakarta Commons Lang (latest CVS code)</li>
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<a name="Release Info"></a> 
<h3>3.  RELEASE INFO</h3>
  
<p>Current Release: IO is yet to be released.  We hope it will be RSN.</p>
  
<p>Planned Next Release:  Real Soon Now :)  See the <a
 href="#Action%20Items">Action Items</a> list for tasks that need to be completed
prior to this release.</p>


<a name="Committers"></a> 
<h3>4.  COMMITTERS</h3>
  
<p>The following individuals are the primary developers and maintainers of
this component.  Developers who plan to use <em>IO</em> in their own projects
are encouraged to collaborate on the future development of this component
to ensure that it continues to meet a variety of needs.</p>
 
<ul>
 <li><a href="mailto:sanders@apache.org">Scott Sanders</a></li>
 <li><a href="mailto:dion@apache.org">dIon Gillard</a></li>
 <li><a href="maito:nicolaken@apache.org">Nicola Ken Barozzi</a><br></li>
 <li><a href="maito:bayard@apache.org">Henri Yandell</a><br></li>
 <li><a href="maito:scolebourne@apache.org">Stephen Colebourne</a><br></li>
 <li><a href="maito:jeremias@apache.org">Jeremias Maerki</a><br></li>
 <li>Fancy volunteering?  We need you!</li>
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<a name="Action Items"></a> 
<h3>5.  ACTION ITEMS</h3>
  
<p>The following action items need to be completed prior to a Version 1.0 
release of this component:</p>
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  <li>Compress - Move the compress sub-package out of IO - READY</li>
  <li>Rename FileUtilTest to FileUtilsTest - DONE</li>
  <li>Rename *Util.java for *Utils.java for consistency - DONE</li>
  <li>Extract code from IOUtils to CopyUtils? </li>
  <li>Remove StreamUtils as all its methods are in IOUtils - DONE</li>
  <li>IOUtils: Remove the toByteArray() variants with the bufferSize
    parameter. Reasoning can be found at 
    http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg19703.html</li>
  <li>IOUtils: Change toByteArray() methods to use the new
    ByteArrayOutputStream which should improve performance considerably.</li>
  <li>IOUtils: Remove the deprecated bufferedCopy method. IO is not released
    so we should be able to do that - DONE</li>
  <li>FileUtils: This class is a big mess ATM. We need to clean it up.</li>
  <li>Split IOUtils into IOUtils and CopyUtils - DONE (Matthew Hawthorne)</li>
  <li>More TestCases!!!</li>
  <li>More Javadocs!!!</li>
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<h5>5.1  NEW CODE</h5>
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  <li>ProxyOutput/InputStream. These are predictable Filter-streams. Need to see if FilterWriter/Reader are predictable - DONE</li>
  <li>FileUtils: Add isFileNewer() method from Alban Peignier:
    http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=348688 - DONE</li>
  <li>A CsvReader/Writer set of classes in a csv sub-package</li>
  <li>FilePoller for telling when a file changes. Look in Tomcat, or GenJava[bayard]</li>
  <li>JoinReader/ConcatReader. One in GenJava, one submitted to Bayard</li>
  <li>FormattedWriter, when it writes out values it uses Format objects to output them. </li>
  <li>FixedWidthReader. Reads in files with a known width, ie) mainframe like. </li>
  <li>Finder system. Generic code to find things in things. So FileFinder, ClassFinder, ZipFinder. Probably too big for IO</li>
  <li>Add an additional ByteArrayOutputStream variant that saves content
    in memory just as the original but starts to write to a temp file when
    a given number of bytes is surpassed. This is to reduce the memory
    usage for big "things".</li>
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     <th width="20%">Volunteer</th>
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     <td><strong>Integration</strong>.  Seek and integrate various i/o related
classes.</td>
     <td align="center">Everyone</td>
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     <td><strong>Install / Use Documentation</strong>.  Create simple   
     installation and User's Guide documentation for this component.</td>
     <td align="center">everyone</td>
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