RELEASE_NOTES

1.4.5
    Fix bug in caching added in 1.4.4

    Optimize statement literal or named statement detection

1.4.4
    Allow for create/drop/alter statements

    Cache whether or not a driver supports asking for prepared statement parameter types

1.4.3
    Handle drivers (such as Oracle) which throw an exception when trying to retrieve
    prepared statement parameter type information.

1.4.2
    Be explicit about target jdk version (1.4) for this branch

1.4.1
    Fixed bug where null is being set via setObject instead of setNull
    Thank you, Simone Gianni!

1.4.0
    Expose the new functionality on interfaces as well as concrete classes

1.3.3
    Expose the handle decorator functionality on the IDBI interface

    Add a script locator mechanism analogous to the statement locator

1.3.2
    Save SQLException to provide more information to the DBIException on
    statement execution

1.3.1
    Issue with a matcher not being reset which only showed up under jdk 1.5. Thank you Patrick!

1.3.0
    Wrap exceptions thrown from handle in Spring DataAccessExceptions for the
    Spring adaptor. Thank you Thomas Risberg.

    Support for "global" named parameters at the handle and DBI levels

1.2.5
    Change Handle#script to batch the statements in the script    

1.2.4
    Bug fix in named parameter handling with quotes (would ignore some named params incorrectly)

1.2.3
    Allow configuring transaction handlers in properties

    Allow configuring of externalized sql locating (ie, non-classpath)

1.2.2
    Add callback based transaction handling in order to cleanly support the various
    transactional contexts (CMT, BMT, Spring, Local) etc.

1.2.1
    Via the Spring DBIBean, IDBI#open(HandleCallback) now uses the transactionally bound handle
    if there is one.

1.2.0
    DBIException now extends RuntimeException. The 7 character change major release =)

    Added DBIUtils.closeHandleIfNecessary(Handle, IDBI) to allow for transparently managing
    transactions and connections in Spring whteher tx's are enabled or not.    

1.1.2
    Handle#query(String, RowCallback): void no longer starts a transaction
    automagically

1.1.1
    Support full-line comments in external sql and sql scripts. Full line comments
    must begin with # or // or -- as the first character(s) on the line. 

1.1.0
    Added handle#first(..): Map convenience functions to query for individual rows

    Removed DBITransactionFailedException and used plain old DBIException
    in its place

    Added unstable package for holding elements subject to API changes
    during a major release cycle.

    Handle decorator functionality added to unstable feature set

    JavaBean mapped named parameter support

    Renamed Handle#preparedBatch to Handle#prepareBatch

    Queries return java.util.List instead of java.util.Collection

    Much more sophisticated auto-configuration

    Broke backwards compatibility on handle.query(String, Object) method behavior
        (this is reason why 1.1.0 version increment)
        (read the javadocs if you use this method)

    Removed method Handle#query(String, Object, Object)
        Could lea to confusion with changed behavior mentioned above

1.0.10
    Batch and PreparedBatch Support

    Removed an unused exception

    Fixed bug in named parameter extractor (would miss named params not preceeded by whitespace)

1.0.9
    Better auto-detection of statement type (named, raw sql, etc)

1.0.8
    Spring integration tools

1.0.7
    Provide an interface for the DBI class in order to play nicer with proxies

1.0.6
    Prepared statement re-use was failing on Oracle, fixed.

1.0.5
    Fleshed out the execute(..) methods to take full array of arguments, like
    query.

    Added update(..): int which return number of rows affected

    Lots of internal refactoring

1.0.4
    Was swallowing an exception in one place for the (brief) 1.0.3 release. 
    Definately upgrade if using 1.0.3

1.0.3
    Fixed a bug where quoted text could be interpreted as named tokens, bad me.

    Added HandleCallback methods to DBI to manage handle db resources etc for
    clients.

    Removed test dependency on Jakarta commons-io, which had been used, previously,
    for deleting the test database. Tests now depend only on derby and junit, still
    with no runtime dependencies (other than the JDBC driver for your database).

1.0.2
    Added facility for loading connection info from properties file 
    for convenience. Totally optional, thankfully.

1.0.1
    Added overloaded argument signatures to callback-based queries
    
1.0 
    Initial Release