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* LibSerializer: Version 0.3.0                  *
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30 May 2008

(C)opyright, 2006-2008, by Pentaho Corporation, Object Refinery Limited and Contributors.

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1.  INTRODUCTION
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This library module contains a general serialization framework. It simplifies
the task of writing custom serialization handlers for non-serializable classes.

LibSerializer is licensed, free of charge, under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public Licence.  A copy of the licence is included in the download.

For the latest news and information about LibSerializer, please refer to:

    http://reporting.pentaho.org/libserializer/


2. REQUIREMENTS
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LibSerializer needs at least JDK 1.2.2 for its functionality.


3. SUPPORT
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Free support is available via the Pentaho forum, follow the link
from the home page.  Please note that questions are answered by volunteers, 
so there is no guaranteed response time or level of service.

Please avoid e-mailing the developers directly for support questions.
If you post a message in the forum, then everyone can see the
question, and everyone can see the answer.

The forums can be found at

  http://forums.pentaho.org/


4. REPORTING BUGS
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If you find bugs in LibSerializer, we'd like to hear about it so that we
can improve future releases of LibSerializer.  Please post a bug report
to the JIRA bug-tracker at Pentaho.org:

    http://jira.pentaho.org/

Please be sure to provide as much information as you can.  We need to
know the version of LibSerializer that you are using, the JDK version,
and the steps required to replicate the bug.  Include any other
information that you think is relevant.


5. ANT
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We use an open source build tool called Ant to build LibSerializer.  An
Ant script (tested using Ant 1.6) is included in the distribution:

    <libserializer-directory>/build.xml

You can find out more about Ant at:

    http://ant.apache.org/

Ant is licensed under the terms of the Apache Software License (a
popular open source software license).


6. OTHER FEEDBACK
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For other feedback and comments, please post a message on the
Pentaho forums. The Forum is available at

  http://forums.pentaho.org/

