We are happy to announce that Data Pipeline 2.1 is now released. We have added a great deal of enhancements below:

• support for Excel 2003 XLS files
• support for Excel XLSX (XML format) files
• added FixedWidthReader.setLastFieldConsumesRemaining(boolean lastFieldConsumesRemaining) functionality
• added ExcelReader.setUseSheetColumnCount(boolean useSheetColumnCount) functionality
• added more string utils to BasicFieldTransformer
• added ConditionalTransformer class
• added TransformingReader.add(Filter filter, Transformer ... transformer) functionality
• setField now has type-specific constructors
• added Eclipse project files
• added Ant build project
• bug-fix: whitespace (like tab) can now be used as the field separator in CSVReader
• bug-fix: handle null variable names in expressions