Lang aims to provide:
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[21663|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21663] \[lang\] Add support in [ToStringStyle] for [DateFormat]. - *Grows quickly into commons-convert* |
[27643|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27643] \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].newInstance method - *Seems unnecessary* |
[29149|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29149] \[lang\] [StringEscapeUtils].unescapeHtml() doesn't handle an empty entity - *Empty entity is in fact illegal HTML, so need to decide if we should ignore. Current behaviour seems acceptable as we're not in the work with bad HTML market.* |
[26659|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26659] \[lang\] add method to [DateUtils] to get the distance between 2 dates - *Mainly replicated by [DurationFormatUtils], or non-obvious* |
[29692|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29692] \[lang\] String indentation feature request - *Needs design as a non-simple problem* |
[22172|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22172] \[lang\] [DateUtils].parseCVS behavior parsing "h:mm z" - *Moved to sandbox* |
[26297|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26297] \[lang\] [BitSetUtils] class, toIndexArray and fromIndexArray |
[30674|http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30674] Support [HttpClient]'s [DateParser] class - *This is basically a Date parseDate(String dateValue, String\[\] dateFormats) method.* |
This article http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/29392/0/page/6 discusses some of the interesting classes in Commons Lang with real world examples.