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<h2>JACOB 1.14</h2>
<h3>What's New</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Binaries are now compiled with Java 5. JDK 1.4 support dropped.
</li>
<li>
Jacob now loads dlls based on platform (32 bit /64 bit) and version number.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Tracked Changes</h3>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" >
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2"><b>Bugs</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1857439</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M7) version.properties renamed to META-INF/JacobVersion.properties
to remove collision with WebSphere version.properties.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1840487</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M6) toJavaObject() converting to SafeArray
did shallow copy that left two objects pointing at the same windows memory.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1829201</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M5) DECIMAL rounding behavior externalized
and old Variant decimal API restored.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1829201</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M5) DECIMAL rounding behavior externalized
and old Variant decimal API restored.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1829201</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M4) Decimal type now throws IllegalArgumentException
when more than 12 bytes worth the digits exist in BigDecimal. Rounding
support added to reduce precision of BigDecimals when converting into VT_DECIMAL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1815163</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M2) Double and Decimal conversion to Int fails for negative values</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2"><b>Patches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2"><b>Feature Requests</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1845039 </td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M7) Jacob DLL name can now be customized to
support bundling of Jacob in other products.</td>
</tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1845039 </td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M6) Jacob DLL names are now qualified by platform and
release. The JacobLibraryLoader now determines the correct 32bit or 64bit
dll based on the system architecture. Jacob.jar now also knows the version
of the dll it is looking for (by name) and loads the correct one. JWS clients
will have to modify their dll loaders. See: The JWS classloader sample </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1828371 </td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M4) Added VT_I8 support to SafeArray.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1813458</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M3) Expand type support. Changed currency support
to use new Currency class. Added VT_I8 64 bit support. VT_I8 support
requires Windows XP or later. VT_I8 not supported by windows in
Windows 2000 and earlier. Added more primitive constructors to Variant.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">1816863</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">(M1) Migrate Jacob to JDK 5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2"><b>Known Issues</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top"></td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">This is now built with Java 5 compiler and
Java 5 syntax. This release is not compatible with JDK 1.4.x and earlier.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top"></td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">This release requires the Visual C++ 2005
libraries. See 1.13 Known Issues for more information.</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<h2>JACOB 1.13</h2>
<h3>What's New</h3>
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<td width="100%" colspan="2"><b>Known Issues</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="13%" valign="top">VC++ libraries</td>
<td width="13%" valign="top"></td>
<td width="87%" valign="top">Jacob 1.13 is built using VC++ 2005.
That creates a dependency on the Visual C++ 2005 libraries and msvcr80.dll.
This library is normally installed on XP systems but may have to be manually
installed on older systems. It can be obtained from the MS downloads site.</td>
installed on older systems. The pagackage, often referred to as vcredist.exe
can be obtained from the MS downloads site.
If you are getting loader errors on this release or later when loading the
dll then you may be missing this library.</td>
</tr>
</table>