Explanation of three patches checked into patches_3.1.0-beta1 branch

Hi,

I have checked in three patches to the patches_3.1.0-beta1 branch (
https://mx4j.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mx4j/branches/patches_3.1.0-beta1).
They basically do the following to the HttpAdapter:

1) (Revision 2274) If an operation's parameter is of type Object, it treats
it as type String. The company I work for has a few MBeans with API's that
have Object parameters for operations that accept Strings but also a few
other types. This was the simplest way I saw to open up these API's for use
(without having to add String typed methods just to allow their use that is
:-) ).

2) (Revision 2275) The second feature I added was a check box above each
operation's submit button that - when checked - told the system to return
the raw output of a method (unescaped and with none of the MX4J navigation
or other UI chrome). This can be especially handy if the operation returns
XML that you just want to script pulling and saving (which is what we do).

3) (Revision 2276) The last feature I added allows people to specify an XSL
document to apply to the raw output of an operation (along with instructions
on how to use this and the second feature above).

I broke each of these into their own revision to make it easier to see what
I did (esp. if the feature actually is unnecessary because of some existing
feature that I overlooked :-) ).

I will next look at the existing tests in the project and see how tests can
be added for each of these features and do so (I apologize ahead of time for
not having tests in place already, but that is another reason I put these
changes in a branch instead of trunk). I also wanted to try to get these
features up for review quickly so that people could see what I was trying to
do and the changes could be made to have them fit the standards of this
project.

Thanks!
Allen

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