Owner 1.0.4 Released

v1.0.4 contains some key enhancements and bug fixes.

Enhancements

• New @ConverterClass annotation.
  See [The @ConverterClass annotation]({{ site.url }}/docs/type-conversion/#toc_1), #38.
• Hot reload for file based sources.
  See [Automatic "hot reload"]({{ site.url }}/docs/reload/#toc_1), #15.
• toString() method can be invoked on the Config object to get some useful text for debugging.
  See [The toString() method]({{ site.url }}/docs/debugging/#toc_0), #33.
• Added Mutable interface for the methods giving write access to the underlying properties structure:
  setProperty, removeProperty, clear.
  See [The Mutable interface]({{ site.url }}/docs/accessible-mutable/#toc_0), #31.
• Added Accessible interface for the list() methods used to aid debugging, and other methods
  giving read access to the underlying properties structure.
  See [The Accessible interface]({{ site.url }}/docs/accessible-mutable/#toc_1).
• Added the reload() method that can be exposed implementing the interface Reloadable.
  See [Programmatic reload]({{ site.url }}/docs/reload/#toc_0).
• Fist class Java Arrays and Collections support in type conversion. Thanks ffbit.
  See [Arrays and Collections]({{ site.url }}/docs/type-conversion/#toc_0), #21, #22 and #24.
• Implemented @DisableFeature annotation to provide the possibility to disable variable expansion and parametrized
  formatting.
  See [Disabling Features]({{ site.url }}/docs/disabling-features/), #20.

Site Enhancements

• New website for documentation.
• Added sonar to keep high attention on code quality.
• Added Travis CI to the project to track changes and run tests on different JDK versions.
• Website code snippets now have syntax highlighting. Thanks ming13.

Bugs fixes

• Fixed bug #40 about tilde expansion.
• Fixed bug #17 Substitution and format not working as expected when used together.

Owner 1.0.3.1 Released

v1.0.3.1 contains some key enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed bug #35

See the announcement for more information on this release.

Owner 1.0.3 Released

v1.0.3 contains some key enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed incompatibility with JRE 6 (project was compiled using JDK 7 and in some places I was catching
  ReflectiveOperationException that has been introduced in JDK 7).
• Minor code cleanup/optimization.

See what's new and what's new part 2 articles for more information on this release.

Owner 1.0.2 Released

v1.0.2 contains some key enhancements and bug fixes:

• Changed package name from owner to org.aeonbits.owner.
  Sorry to break backward compatibility, but this has been necessary in order to publish the artifact on Maven Central
  Repository.
• Custom & special return types.
• Properties variables expansion.
• Added possibility to specify Properties to import with the method ConfigFactory.create().
• Added list() methods to aide debugging. User can specify these methods in his properties mapping interfaces.
• Improved the documentation (this big file that you are reading), and Javadocs.

See what's new and what's new part 2 articles (most of them applies to 1.0.3 and 1.0.2 as well) for
more information on this release.

Owner 1.0.1 Released

v1.0.1 contains some key enhancements and bug fixes:

• Removed commons-lang transitive dependency. Minor bug fixes.

Owner 1.0.0 Released

v1.0.0 contains following key features:

• Mapping between Java interfaces and properties files.
• @DefaultValue and @Key annotations.
• @Sources annotation for loading properties from specified urls.

See article Introducing OWNER, a tiny framework for Java Properties files.