ICU-6289 Merging changeset:24321 (README for 4.0 release) from trunk to maint-4-0.
X-SVN-Rev: 24322
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@@ -12,17 +12,17 @@
<body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="EN-US"
link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080">
<h2>International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)</h2>
-<h3>Read Me for ICU4J 4.0 d03</h3>
+<h3>Read Me for ICU4J 4.0</h3>
<hr size="2" width="100%">
<p><b>Release Date</b><br>
-June 23, 2008<br>
+July 2, 2008<br>
</p>
<!-- <p><b>Note:</b> This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes
and adds implementations of inherited API and introduces new API
or functionality. -->
-<p><b>Note:</b> This is a draft release of ICU4J 4.0. All new APIs planned
-for ICU4J 4.0 release are available for evaluation.
+<p><b>Note:</b> This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes and adds
+implementations of inherited API and introduces new API or functionality.
</p>
<p>For the most recent release, see the <a
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
<li><a href="#HowToModularize">How to modularize ICU4J</a></li>
<li><a href="#tryingout">Trying Out ICU4J</a></li>
<li><a href="#resources">ICU4J Resource Information</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#timezone">About ICU4J Time Zone</a></li>
<li><a href="#WhereToFindMore">Where to Find More Information</a></li>
<li><a href="#SubmittingComments">Submitting Comments, Requesting
Features and Reporting Bugs</a></li>
@@ -314,17 +315,14 @@
<p>There are two ways to download the ICU4J releases.
</p>
<ul type="disc">
- <li><b>Official Release Snapshot:</b><br>
+ <li><b>Official Release:</b><br>
If you want to use ICU4J (as opposed to developing it), your best bet
-is to download an official, packaged version of the ICU4J source
-code. These versions are tested more thoroughly than day-to-day
-development builds, and they are packaged in jar files for convenient
-download. These packaged files can be found at the <a
- href="http://www.icu-project.org/download/">ICU Downloads page</a>.
-A packaged snapshot is named <b>icu4j-XXX-src.jar</b>, where XXX
-is the release version number. Please unjar this file. It
-will reconstruct the source directory.</li>
-</ul>
+is to download an official, packaged version of the ICU4J library files.
+These versions are tested more thoroughly than day-to-day development
+builds, and they are packaged in jar files for convenient download.
+These packaged files can be found at the
+<a href="http://www.icu-project.org/download/">ICU Downloads page</a>.
+</li></ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li><b>Subversion Source Repository:</b><br>
If you are interested in developing features, patches, or bug fixes for
@@ -581,9 +579,6 @@
<p>To install ICU4J, simply place the prebuilt jar file <strong>icu4j.jar</strong>
on your Java CLASSPATH. If you need Charset API support please place
<strong>icu4j-charsets.jar</strong> on your class path. No other files are needed.</p>
-<p><b>Eclipse users:</b> See the ICU4J site for information on<a
- href="http://www.icu-project.org/docs/eclipse_howto/eclipse_howto.html">
-how to configure Eclipse</a> to build ICU4J.</p>
<p>To build ICU4J, you will need a J2SE SDK and the Ant build system.
We strongly recommend using the Ant build system to build ICU4J.
It's recommended to install both the J2SE SDK and Ant somewhere <em>outside</em>
@@ -749,6 +744,10 @@
<tt>"ant check"</tt> or
"java -classpath classes com.ibm.icu.dev.test.TestAll -nothrow".</p>
+<p><b>Eclipse users:</b> See the ICU4J site for information on<a
+ href="http://www.icu-project.org/docs/eclipse_howto/eclipse_howto.html">
+how to configure Eclipse</a> to build and develop ICU4J on Eclipse IDE.</p>
+
<p><b>Note: </b>To install/build ICU4J Locale Service Provider, please refer
<a href="localespi/readme.html">Read Me for ICU4J Locale Service Provider</a>.</p>
@@ -820,7 +819,7 @@
resource information
which is completely independent of the JRE resource information. (Note,
ICU4J 2.8 to 3.4, time zone information depends on the underlying JRE).
-The new ICU4J information is equivalent to the information in ICU4C and
+The ICU4J resource information is equivalent to the information in ICU4C and
many resources are, in fact, the same binary files that ICU4C uses.
<p>
By default the ICU4J distribution includes all of the standard resource
@@ -1005,6 +1004,18 @@
<li>Build and test icu4j</li>
</ol>
+<h3 class="doc"><a name="timezone"></a>About ICU4J Time Zone</h3>
+<p>ICU4J 4.0 includes time zone data version 2008c, which is the latest one as of
+the release date. However, time zone data is frequently updated in response
+to changes made by local governments around the world. If you need to update
+the time zone data, please refer the ICU user guide topic
+<a href="http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/dateTimezone.html#tzupdate">Updating the Time Zone Data</a>.</p>
+<p>Starting with ICU4J 4.0, you can optionally configure ICU4J date and time
+service classes to use underlying JDK TimeZone implementation (see the ICU4J API reference
+<a href="http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/util/TimeZone.html">TimeZone</a>
+for the details). When this configuration is enabled, ICU's own time zone data
+won't be used and you have to get time zone data patches from the JRE vendor.</p>
+
<h3 class="doc"><a name="WhereToFindMore"></a>Where to Find More
Information</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/">http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/</a>
