Changes in Version 1.2
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- Stream support

  Besides passing file names or files to the classes 'ConfigurationReader' 
  and 'FileCreator', you can now pass Input-/Outputstreams. This helps 
  to avoid path configuration issues - e.g. you simply can add your config
  files to java's classpath.

- Conversion methods for file generation

  Up to version 1.1, during file creation only some basic types were 
  supported; the converters have been used only for parsing.
  Now the converters are responsible for conversions in both directions.
  A converter has to offer an additional method to convert from bean to
  string (the opposite direction); its signature is
  
      public String convertT(Object obj, HashMap options)

  (The 'T' in 'convertT' should be replaced with a sensible description
  of the type, e.g. 'convertChar', 'convertGender' and so forth.)      

- Multiple padding characters

  The "conversion-option" element for "pad-character" recognizes
  all characters in the given "value" string - each of these
  characters will be stripped during parsing. On generating a file
  the value will be padded with the string's first character.

- Navigational expressions in 'beanref' attributes

  Up to version 1.1, the 'beanref' attributes in flatworm's XML
  descriptors only worked for "single hop" expressions like
  "customer.city". This has been fixed to support expressions like
  "customer.shippingAddress.city".