Data Pipeline 2.2.3 is now available with the following enhancements:

• added JdbcValueReaderto allow clients to override column reading strategy
• added the JdbcReader.valueReader property

Data Pipeline 2.2.2 is now available with the following enhancements:

• added the XmlTemplate functionality
• XmlWriter now uses XmlTemplate to describe output patterns

Data Pipeline 2.2.1 is now available with the following enhancements:

• added batch execution to JdbcWriter (see JdbcWriter.setBatchSize)
• added callback mechanism to track job progress (see JobTemplate.transfer(R reader, W writer, boolean async, JobCallback callback))
• early access to DeMuxReader

We are happy to announce that Data Pipeline 2.2 is now released. We have added the enhancements below:

• added an XPath-based XmlReader
• updates so that Excel now defaults to the Apache POI instead of JXL
• updates so that the following classes use java.util.List instead of java.util.ArrayList in their public APIs: CompositeValue, FieldList, Lookup, LookupTransformer, Record, RecordList

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