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Started by Michael Levin Aug 19, 2009.
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Started by Zemian Deng Nov 22, 2008.
In case you missed it, the new release marks a important date for them. Besides few big features and bugs fixes added, this release will mark as the implementation reference of their official…Continue
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Started by Zemian Deng Nov 14, 2008.
Here I attached two scripts that might help you working with jar files.Have you tried to verify that a Class must exists in a lib directory that has few dozens jar files? For example I read from a…Continue
Started by Zemian Deng Sep 11, 2008.
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