This version of geotools was checked out from http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/tags/2.4.x
at version 29131. Then, the patches found in geotools_386_2.4.x.txt 
and geotools_1703_2.4.x.txt were applied.

These patches correspond to bug reports GEOT-386 and GEOT-1703, respectively, as tracked
at: http://jira.codehaus.org

This version of geotools appears to work fine to communicate with geoserver-1.6.0-RC3