[ANNOUNCEMENT] Commons Configuration 1.3 Released

The Commons Configuration team is pleased to announce the availability
of the 1.3 release.

Commons Configuration provides a generic configuration interface which
enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of
sources, e.g. properties files, XML documents, JDBC datasources and many
more. More information can be found at the Configuration main site at
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/configuration/

The new release adds many new features. Some highlights are:

- Support for XPATH expressions when querying properties from
hierarchical configurations
- The new DefaultConfigurationBuilder class as a hierarchical
alternative to ConfigurationFactory that allows for more configuration
options
- Support for configuration listeners that are notified about
modifications on a configuration object.

A full list of changes since the previous release can
be found in the change log at
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/configuration/changes-report.html

Commons Configuration is available in either binary or source form from
the Configuration downloads page:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-configuration.cgi

(Please remeber to verify the provided checksums and/or signatures after
you have downloaded a distribution!)

Oliver Heger
on behalf of the Commons Configuration team