Release Notes - Harmony - Version 5.0M11 - HTML format

Sub-task

• [HARMONY-6200] - [classlib][luni] - add cache for file's canonical path

Bug

• [HARMONY-329] - [classlib][luni] Endless loop when using Double.parseDouble(String) with certain types of value
• [HARMONY-1767] - [classlib][swing]javax.swing.text.ComponentView(Element) throws unexpected NullPointerException on user's implementation
• [HARMONY-1866] - [classlib][swing][test] j.s.t.StyleConstantsTest fails
• [HARMONY-5813] - [site][doc] Wrong link in DRLVM Thread Manager doc
• [HARMONY-5981] - [classlib][logging] FileHandler may throw exception when logging to the same file by multiple thread
• [HARMONY-6206] - [classlib][beans] java.beans.EventSetDescriptor(String, Class<?> , MethodDescriptor[], Method, Method) throws a NullPointerException while RI doesn't
• [HARMONY-6210] - [classlib][archive] Inflater.setInput crashes when input is read 1 byte at a time
• [HARMONY-6213] - [classlib][beans] XMLDecoder.readObject() should not invoke org.xml.sax.SAXParseException
• [HARMONY-6214] - [classlib][beans] java.beans.XMLDecoder.XMLDecoder(InputStream inputStream, Object owner, ExceptionListener listener) should not throw IllegalArgumentException
• [HARMONY-6215] - [classlib][beans] java.beans.XMLEncoder.writeExpression(Expression null) should throw NullPointerException
• [HARMONY-6218] - [classlib][lang-management] java.lang.management.MemoryUsage.from(CompositeData cd) should throw IlegalArgumentException but not NullPointerException
• [HARMONY-6230] - [classlib][archive] ZipEntry close() leaves ZipInputStream in an inconsistent state
• [HARMONY-6231] - [classlib][text] DateFormat does not consider lenient
• [HARMONY-6234] - [classlib][nio] FileChannel.transferTo should not check the upper bound of position and count
• [HARMONY-6235] - [jdwp] dt_socket.so missing from Linux federated builds
• [HARMONY-6236] - [classlib][luni] ArrayList breaks when given concurrent collections as input
• [HARMONY-6237] - [classlib][luni] HashMap doesn't support proxy object as keys
• [HARMONY-6242] - Math.max(double, double) gives wrong answer when Math.max(-0.0d, 0.0d)
• [HARMONY-6244] - [classlib][beans] java.beans.XMLEncoder fails to write SystemColor.activeCaption object correctly
• [HARMONY-6245] - NoSuchMethod error with three-level hierarchy
• [HARMONY-6246] - Crash during debugging session
• [HARMONY-6248] - [classlib][security] Wildcard subjectAltName dNSName entries throw IOException
• [HARMONY-6254] - [classlib][luni] URLStreamHandler throws NPE when creating external form
• [HARMONY-6256] - [classlib][awt] Incorrect test of transformation type when clipping
• [HARMONY-6259] - [classlib][luni] PipedInputStream.read throw different info when IOException is raised
• [HARMONY-6261] - [classlib][luni] Float parse causes OutOfMemoryException
• [HARMONY-6262] - Harmony's java.util.concurrent is out of date
• [HARMONY-6266] - Building in release mode fails with gcc version 4.3.3
• [HARMONY-6267] - [classlib][text] Implementation of AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute.equals should only return true if objects are the same
• [HARMONY-6268] - [classlib][luni] Math.min fails when comparing doubles and floats with the same values
• [HARMONY-6270] - [classlib][swing] JSlider problem with non-zero minimum values
• [HARMONY-6271] - [classlib][math] BigDecimal.divide should throw an ArithmeticException instead of OutOfMemory for too large scales
• [HARMONY-6272] - [classlib][math] BigDecimal.divide throws ArrayIndexOufOfBoundsException when called with too large scale
• [HARMONY-6274] - [jdwp][java6] Garbled output in JDWP trace
• [HARMONY-6276] - [luni][lang] Float.toString() can give wrong string and throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on AIX 32bit
• [HARMONY-6277] - Timer's finalizer throws an NPE if the Timer wasn't constructed properly
• [HARMONY-6279] - [classlib][luni] file.encoding is always set to ISO-9959-1 if using drlvm
• [HARMONY-6286] - TimeUnit.MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS shouldn't be present in Java 5
• [HARMONY-6290] - BufferedReader.readLine() breaks at EBCDIC newline, violating the spec
• [HARMONY-6292] - [classlib][luni] subList(int, int).size() should also check concurrent modification when the origin changes
• [HARMONY-6293] - [classlib][luni] PipedWriter.flush should throw IOException if pipe is closed (Java 6 only)
• [HARMONY-6294] - [classlib][nio_char] Character mapping difference to RI for IBM-1047 charset
• [HARMONY-6299] - ioctl() doesn't work on z/OS when the pipe is set up with pipe() function
• [HARMONY-6301] - There are 2 unused member in java.util.Locale
• [HARMONY-6302] - [classlib][nio] Encoding bug in nio/charset/CharsetProviderTest.java
• [HARMONY-6308] - [classlib][nio_char] Character mapping difference to RI for IBM037 charset
• [HARMONY-6310] - [classlib][luni]test org.apache.harmony.archive.tests.java.util.jar.JarExecTest.test_jar_class_path failed on z/OS

Improvement

• [HARMONY-984] - [testing] collect module test directories to test jars
• [HARMONY-6094] - [classlib][luni] Performance improvement patch in java.io.PushbackInputStream#unread(byte[] buffer, int offset, int length)
• [HARMONY-6095] - [classlib][luni] Performance improvement patch for java.text.DateFormatSymbols.DateFormatSymbols(Locale)
• [HARMONY-6187] - [jdktools][jdwp] Contribution of updated JDWP agent and socket transport layer for Java 6
• [HARMONY-6239] - [classlib][text]text module doesn't need to import java.awt.font while the manifest.mf file does
• [HARMONY-6240] - [classlib][pack200] org.apache.harmony.pack200.BandSet should specify effortThresholds as a share field of this class
• [HARMONY-6241] - java.text.SimpleDateFormat.SimpleDateFormat(String, Locale) performance can be improved
• [HARMONY-6243] - [classlib][pack200] Pack200 cmd line should print message when user packs y.jar file into y.jar.pack without specifing --no-gzip option
• [HARMONY-6250] - [classlib][luni] Timer documentation: clarify which time units used
• [HARMONY-6255] - Implementation of createJar method
• [HARMONY-6265] - [classlib][luni] Improve the performance of HashMap
• [HARMONY-6295] - shiftLeftOneBit Javadoc

New Feature

• [HARMONY-6264] - Need a new native method: VM.getStackClass()
• [HARMONY-6278] - [classlib] Upgrade icu4j 4.0 to the latest icu4j 4.2.1
• [HARMONY-6282] - [jdktools] [rmi] we should create the stubs from rmic, rmid and rmiregistry

Test

• [HARMONY-6058] - [classlib][prefs] - remove FilePreferencesImplTest from exclude list

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