Summary of important user-visible changes for releases of the Java package

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java-1.2.9   Release Date: 2012-07-25   Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
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** Bug fixes & improvements:
--- configure.base: properly enable java if JAVA_ARCH was set beforehand
                    (Thomas Weber)
--- __java__.cc: restore the locale after initializing the JVM (Sbastien
    Villemot)
 
--- All dialog functions: accept cell array for dialog text caption (ML-
    compatible) (not for dialog title!) bug #36311

** Added pre_install.m, which should warn before, and if needed abort, actual
   installation step if JAVA_HOME wasn't properly set. If needed, pre_install.m
   also adds the directory containing the Java executables to the PATH,
   provided this resides in the expected place (i.e., JAVA_HOME/bin)

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java-1.2.8   Release Date: 2011-06-08   Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
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** Bug fixes & improvements:
--- Octave.java:  Support for java.lang.short & java.lang.long

--- __java__.cc: Fixed wrong input arg order for javaMethod()
                 Removed extra ")" in getcwd call
                 
** Updated docs and added doc generation scripts(Martin Hepperle)

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java-1.2.7   Release Date: 2010-03-04   Release Managers: Martin Hepperle & 
                                                          Philip Nienhuis
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** Bug fixes & improvements
--- Many many improvements by Martin Hepperle

** Added extensive docs in pdf, html and texinfo format (Martin Hepperle)

** Added TeX support (Martin Hepperle)

** Added dialog methods: msgbox, errordlg, inputdlg, warndlg, listdlg, questdlg,
                         helpdlg + test script (Martin Hepperle)
                         
** Implemented static classpath (Martin Hepperle)

** Added Matlab-compatible javaMethod and javaObject as wrappers for
   java_invoke() and java_new() (Martin Hepperle)

** Added javarmpath(), javamethods() (Martin Hepperle)

** Added javamem()
