Released 10 Dec 2002
Enormous changes to the class and package structure in this release prohibit a class-by-class breakdown of changes. The focus is no longer on Exif metadata alone, but now on general metadata extraction from multiple media types.
Changes support:
- easier future extensibility
- IPTC metadata extraction
- multiple directories of tags
- descriptor class for interpreting values in a given directory
- multiple media and metadata types
- enhanced handling of Exif makernote values
- many more unit tests
- numerous other enhancements
- minor bug fixes
Simpler extensibility changes the focus from Exif extraction alone and opens the scope to general metadata extraction. Future development will introduce new media and metadata support with little or no impact to existing classes.