Release 0.2.0

Initial release of our Scala commons library. In no particular order:

• CommonsDef: object that is designed to be imported with import CommonsDef._ in any/all classes much like the way that scala.PreDef is imported in all files automatically.
• StringUtil: methods to manipulate and format strings.
• TimeUtil: methods for formatting time.
• PathUtil: utility methods for creating and manipulating Path objects and path-like Strings.
• IoUtil and Io: utility methods for input and output.
• Logger: a logging class to support logging at multiple levels (i.e. info, warning, error)
• ReflectionUtil: generic utility methods related to Java and Scala reflection.
• DelimitedDataParser: a parser for files of text columns delimited by some character (e.g. tab-delimited or csv).
• SimpleCounter and NumericCounter: classes to count occurrences of any kind of object, as well as numeric types.
  • NumericCounter has additional methods to provide various useful summary statistics.
• SelfClosingIterator: an Iterator that implements Closeable and auto-closes when it hits the end of the underlying iterator.
• BiMap: an iterable bi-directional map.
• BetterBufferedIterator: a better buffered iterator that provides implementations of takeWhile and dropWhile that don't discard extra values.
• ReflectiveBuilder: class to manage the process of inspecting another class and it's constructor(s) and then assembling the necessary information to build an instance reflectively.
• ClassFinder: uility class that can scan for classes in the classpath and find all the ones annotated with a particular annotation.
• CaptureSystemStreams: methods to help capture stdin and stderr streams (ex. when writing tests).
• AsyncStreamSink: class that is capable of reading output from a sub-process (or arbitrary other InputStream) and processing it through any method that accepts a String, while managing the extra thread necessary to ensure nothing blocks.