This version of geotools was checked out from http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/tags/2.4-RC0
at version 28803. Then, the patch found in geotools_386_wfs_2.4.x.txt was applied.

This patch corresponds to bug report GEOT-386 as described at: http://jira.codehaus.org

This version of geotools appears to work fine to communicate with geoserver-1.6-RC3