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Advanced JDBC Column Handler

GENERAL (6.1.2)

    * Release Date: March 2012
    
    * The release notes may have been updated since the release date. 
      Contact Oracle Endeca Customer Support for the most recent version
      of the release notes.

MIGRATION (6.1.2)
  
    * This version is compatible with Platform Services 6.1.x which 
      provides Java version 6 (JDK6).  It can therefore support SQL/JDBC 
      data types added in JDK6 such as Types.NVARCHAR. A JDK6 Java 
      environment is required for this JDBC type support.

    * For consistency with Endeca Platform Servives version numbering, 
      this release of Advanced JDBC Column Handler is versioned as 6.1.2. 
      The previous release was 1.1.0.

BUG FIXES (6.1.2)
    
    * Added support for Types.NVARCHAR, NCHAR, LONGNVARCHAR and
      NCLOB (use AdvancedJDBCColumnHandler2).
    
    * (BUG3734): the package was missing the file
      sample_columnHandler.properties

    * Fixed typo in error message when columnHandler.properties could not
      be found in classpath.

KNOWN ISSUES (6.1.2)

    Documentation:
    
    * The instructions in the Installation Guide do not reflect the correct
      installation file name. For this release, the installation package is
      named according to the Oracle part number.

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(1.1.0)  

    * (BUG1723): added support for LONGVARBINARY, BINARY and VARBINARY
    column types, all of which use filesystem output like the BLOB handler.
    
    * (BUG1804): for filesystem output of binary data (and optionally
    character data), the handler now uses the outputDataDir property
    specified in the columnHandler.properties file or "../incoming" if the
    properties file is not set up or outputDataDir is not specified
    
    * (BUG1805): The binary data stream handler now reads and writes data
    in configurable-sized chunks (default=1024 bytes)
    
    * (BUG1808): character data is now written out to disk if the
    charDataToDisk property in columnHandler.properties is true
    
    * (BUG1809): Added method stubs for the following datatype handlers:
        ARRAY
        DISTINCT
        JAVA_OBJECT
        OTHER
        REF
        STRUCT
    All of these throw a SQLException which will cause forge to fail.
    Previously, these columns were silently ignored, meaning that the user
    would have to wait for forge to finish to find out these datatypes are
    not supported.

    * (BUG1958): When using Microsoft's JDBC driver with Microsoft SQL
    Server, a non-null TEXT field containing the empty string ("")
    previously caused forge to fail.  Now, a warning is written to forge's
    log, and the handler returns a null property, allowing forge to
    continue processing.

    * (BUG2027): added forward compatibility for the Oracle Endeca IAP 5.0 release.
    That release changes the method signature for LONGVARCHAR datatypes.
    The Advanced JDBC Column Handler is compatible with both 4.8 and 5.0
    releases.
    
    * (BUG2076): optimized buffering when working with character data.
    This optimization should lead to more efficient character data
    processing.
    
    * All log messages are now written to forge's log, instead of to a
    separate log.
    
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(1.0.0)

  * Initial release