6.0.0 (Oct 3, 2016)

Juneau 6.0.0 is a major update.

The major change is rebranding from "Juno" to "Juneau" in preparation for donation to the Apache Foundation.

##### org.apache.juneau

- Major changes around how serializer and parser class properties are defined to improve performance and concurrency.
  - New {@link oaj.PropertyStore} class - Used for creating context objects.
  - New {@link oaj.Context} class - Read-only configurations for serializers and parsers.
  - New {@link oaj.Session} class - One-time use objects used by serializers and parsers.
  - All context context properties can now also be specified via system properties.
- Refactored serializer and parser APIs for more consistency between stream-based and character-based serializers and parsers.
  - More consistent handling of exceptions.
  - More consistent method declarations.
- Refactored var resolver API and added them to a new package - org.apache.juneau.svl.
  - Support for stream-based variables - {@link oaj.svl.StreamedVar}.
  - Added support for context and session objects.
- Eliminated "_class" properties and replaced them with "_type" properties. The class properties were a little-used feature where we would serialize fully-qualified class names when the class type could not be inferred through reflection. It's been replaced with bean type names and bean dictionaries. Instead of class names, we serialize "_type" properties whose name is the type name defined on the bean being serialized. The parsers use a 'dictionary' of bean classes to resolve those names to actual bean classes. The following features were added to enable this support:
  - {@link oaj.annotation.Bean#typeName() @Bean(typeName)} - Annotation that defines an identifying name for a bean class.
  - {@link oaj.transform.BeanFilterBuilder#typeName(String)} - Programmatic equivalent to annotation above.
  - {@link oaj.BeanContext#BEAN_beanDictionary} - List of bean classes that make up the bean dictionary for lookup during parsing.
  - BEAN_beanTypePropertyName - The overridable type property name. Default is "_type".
  - @BeanProperty(beanDictionary) - Define a type dictionary for a particular bean property value. This overrides the value specified using {@link oaj.BeanContext#BEAN_beanDictionary}.
  - SerializerContext.SERIALIZER_addBeanTypeProperties - Controls whether type properties are serialized.
  In addition, the {@link oaj.annotation.Bean#typeName() @Bean(typeName)} value replaces the @Xml(name) annotation, and the "type" and "_class" attributes in the XML and HTML serializers have been standardized on a single "_type" attribute.
- Refactor bean filter support to use {@link oaj.transform.BeanFilterBuilder} class. Allows the BeanFilter class to use final fields.
- {@link oaj.msgpack MessagePack} support.
- Serializers can now serialize directly to {@link java.io.File Files}. See {@link oaj.serializer.Serializer#serialize(Object,Object)}
- Parsers can now parse directly from {@link java.io.File Files} and other types. See {@link oaj.parser.Parser#parse(Object,ClassMeta)}
- Parsers will automatically covert numeric input to POJOs that have numeric constructors (e.g. java.util.Date).
- Renamed 'Filters' to 'BeanFilters' and 'PojoSwaps'. Filters is just too overloaded a term.
- Internal utility classes moved to a new org.apache.juneau.internal package. These internal utility classes are not meant for consumption outside the Juneau codebase.
- New methods on {@link oaj.parser.Parser}:
  - org.apache.juneau.parser.Parser.createSession(ObjectMap,Method,Object)
  - Parser.getMediaRanges()
- New methods on {@link oaj.serializer.Serializer}:
  - org.apache.juneau.serializer.Serializer.createSession(ObjectMap,Method)
  - Serializer.getMediaRanges()
- New {@link oaj.annotation.Bean#sort() @Bean(sort)} annotation.
- Added @Bean.properties annotations on various DTO beans to make the ordering consistent between IBM and Oracle JVMs.
  IBM JVMs maintain the order of methods in a class, whereas Oracle JVMs do not.
- Serializers and parsers now automatically convert {@link java.lang.Class} objects to readable names via ClassUtils.getReadableClassName(Class).
- Eliminated the ClassFilter class since it's no longer needed.
- Code and concurrency improvements to {@link oaj.serializer.SerializerGroup} and {@link oaj.parser.ParserGroup}.
- Various enhancements to BeanContext.convertToType(Object,Class).
- New properties on {@link oaj.html.HtmlSerializer}:
  - HtmlSerializerContext.HTML_detectLinksInStrings - Automatically detect hyperlinks in strings.
  - HtmlSerializerContext.HTML_lookForLabelParameters - Specify anchor text by appending &label=MyLabel to URL.
  - HtmlSerializerContext.HTML_labelParameter - Specify what URL parameter to use as the anchor text label.
  - HtmlSerializerContext.URI_ANCHOR option for HtmlSerializerContext.HTML_uriAnchorText.
- Removed generics from {@link oaj.BeanPropertyMeta}.
- Introduced new classes to eliminate the references to language-specific metadata in the core metadata classes:
  - ClassMetaExtended / ClassMeta.getExtendedMeta(Class)
  - BeanMetaExtended /BeanMeta.getExtendedMeta(Class)
  - BeanPropertyMetaExtended / BeanPropertyMeta.getExtendedMeta(Class)
- Renamed @Transform annotation to @Pojo so that it can be used for various POJO-related behavior, not just associating transforms.
- Introduced {@link oaj.dto.swagger Swagger DTOs}.

##### org.apache.juneau.rest

- OPTIONS pages replaced with Swagger documents. Lots of changes related to supporting Swagger.
  - Annotation name changes to conform to Swagger specs: @Attr->@Path, @QParam->@Query, @Param->@FormData, @Content->@Body
  - Eliminated ResourceOptions and related code.
  - New annotations and related methods:
    - @RestResource(title) / {@link oajr.RestInfoProvider#getTitle(RestRequest)}
    - @RestResource(description) / {@link oajr.RestInfoProvider#getDescription(RestRequest)}
    - @RestResource(termsOfService) / RestInfoProvider.getTermsOfService(RestRequest)
    - @RestResource(contact) / RestInfoProvider.getContact(RestRequest)
    - @RestResource(license) / RestInfoProvider.getLicense(RestRequest)
    - @RestResource(version) / RestInfoProvider.getVersion(RestRequest)
    - @RestResource(tags) / RestInfoProvider.getTags(RestRequest)
    - @RestResource(externalDocs) / RestInfoProvidergetExternalDocs(RestRequest)
    - {@link oajr.annotation.RestMethod#summary() @RestMethod(summary)} / RestInfoProvider.getMethodSummary(String,RestRequest)
    - {@link oajr.annotation.RestMethod#description() @RestMethod(description)} /RestInfoProvider.getMethodDescription(String,RestRequest)
    - @RestMethod(externalDocs)
    - @RestMethod(tags)
    - @RestMethod(deprecated)
    - @RestMethod(parameters)
    - @RestMethod(responses)
- New RestServletContext.paramFormat context property.
- New/updated methods on {@link oajr.RestServlet}:
  - RestServlet.createProperties()
  - RestServlet.createBeanContext(ObjectMap,Class[],Class[])
  - RestServlet.createBeanFilters()
  - RestServlet.createPojoSwaps()
  - RestServlet.createParsers(ObjectMap,Class[],Class[])
  - RestServlet.createUrlEncodingSerializer(ObjectMap,Class[],Class[])
  - RestServlet.createUrlEncodingParser(ObjectMap,Class[],Class[])
  - RestServlet.createConverters(ObjectMap)
  - RestServlet.createDefaultRequestHeaders(ObjectMap)
  - RestServlet.createDefaultResponseHeaders(ObjectMap)
  - RestServlet.createEncoders(ObjectMap)
  - RestServlet.createGuards(ObjectMap)
  - RestServlet.createMimetypesFileTypeMap(ObjectMap)
  - RestServlet.createResponseHandlers(ObjectMap)
- New client-version annotations:
  - RestResource.clientVersionHeader - The name of the header used to identify the client version.
  - {@link oajr.annotation.RestMethod#clientVersion} - The client version range applied to a Java method.

##### org.apache.juneau.rest.client

- Removed the JazzRestClient class.
- New method RestClient.setClientVersion(String).