diff --git a/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/JsonAsserter.java b/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/JsonAsserter.java
index 9cff5bec..50092234 100644
--- a/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/JsonAsserter.java
+++ b/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/JsonAsserter.java
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ public interface JsonAsserter {
      */
     <T> JsonAsserter assertThat(String path, Matcher<T> matcher);
 
+    /**
+     * @param path
+     * @param matcher
+     * @param message
+     * @param <T>
+     * @return
+     */
+    <T> JsonAsserter assertThat(String path, Matcher<T> matcher, String message);
+
     /**
      * Asserts that object specified by path is equal to the expected value.
      * If they are not, an AssertionError is thrown with the given message.
@@ -37,6 +46,8 @@ public interface JsonAsserter {
      */
     <T> JsonAsserter assertEquals(String path, T expected);
 
+    <T> JsonAsserter assertEquals(String path, T expected, String message);
+
     /**
      * Checks that a path is not defined within a document. If the document contains the
      * given path, an AssertionError is thrown
@@ -46,6 +57,8 @@ public interface JsonAsserter {
      */
     JsonAsserter assertNotDefined(String path);
 
+    JsonAsserter assertNotDefined(String path, String message);
+
 
     /**
      * Asserts that object specified by path is null. If it is not, an AssertionError
@@ -55,6 +68,7 @@ public interface JsonAsserter {
      * @return this to allow fluent assertion chains
      */
     JsonAsserter assertNull(String path);
+    JsonAsserter assertNull(String path, String message);
 
     /**
      * Asserts that object specified by path is NOT null. If it is, an AssertionError
@@ -65,6 +79,8 @@ public interface JsonAsserter {
      */
     <T> JsonAsserter assertNotNull(String path);
 
+    <T> JsonAsserter assertNotNull(String path, String message);
+
     /**
      * Syntactic sugar to allow chaining assertions with a separating and() statement
      * <p/>
diff --git a/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java b/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java
index 2342336a..54e86f14 100644
--- a/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java
+++ b/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java
@@ -38,7 +38,19 @@ public class JsonAsserterImpl implements JsonAsserter {
         T obj = JsonPath.<T>read(jsonObject, path);
         if (!matcher.matches(obj)) {
 
-            throw new AssertionError(String.format("JSON doesn't match.\nExpected:\n%s\nActual:\n%s", matcher.toString(), obj));
+            throw new AssertionError(String.format("JSON path [%s] doesn't match.\nExpected:\n%s\nActual:\n%s", path, matcher.toString(), obj));
+        }
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public <T> JsonAsserter assertThat(String path, Matcher<T> matcher, String message) {
+        T obj = JsonPath.<T>read(jsonObject, path);
+        if (!matcher.matches(obj)) {
+            throw new AssertionError(String.format("JSON Assert Error: %s\nExpected:\n%s\nActual:\n%s", message, matcher.toString(), obj));
         }
         return this;
     }
@@ -63,6 +75,16 @@ public class JsonAsserterImpl implements JsonAsserter {
         return this;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public JsonAsserter assertNotDefined(String path, String message) {
+        try {
+            Object o = JsonPath.read(jsonObject, path);
+            throw new AssertionError(format("Document contains the path <%s> but was expected not to.", path));
+        } catch (InvalidPathException e) {
+        }
+        return this;
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */
@@ -70,6 +92,16 @@ public class JsonAsserterImpl implements JsonAsserter {
         return assertThat(path, nullValue());
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public JsonAsserter assertNull(String path, String message) {
+        return assertThat(path, nullValue(), message);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> JsonAsserter assertEquals(String path, T expected, String message) {
+        return null;  //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */
@@ -77,6 +109,11 @@ public class JsonAsserterImpl implements JsonAsserter {
         return assertThat(path, notNullValue());
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public <T> JsonAsserter assertNotNull(String path, String message) {
+        return assertThat(path, notNullValue(), message);
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
      */
diff --git a/json-path/pom.xml b/json-path/pom.xml
index 8f06999d..6e1edb9e 100644
--- a/json-path/pom.xml
+++ b/json-path/pom.xml
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        
 
 
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java
index 222c9dfa..8e67cf10 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ import java.util.*;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.notEmpty;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.notNull;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.notEmpty;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.notNull;
 
 /**
  * @author Kalle Stenflo
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Filter.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Filter.java
index 9de183bf..2b81e8b6 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Filter.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Filter.java
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ package com.jayway.jsonpath;
 
 import java.util.*;
 
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProvider;
+
 /**
  * A filter is used to filter the content of a JSON array in a JSONPath.
  *
@@ -45,10 +47,11 @@ public abstract class Filter<T> {
     /**
      * Filters the provided list based on this filter configuration
      * @param filterItems items to filter
+     * @param jsonProvider the json provider that is used to create the result list
      * @return the filtered list
      */
-    public List<T> doFilter(List<T> filterItems) {
-        List<T> result = new ArrayList<T>();
+    public List doFilter(List<T> filterItems, JsonProvider jsonProvider) {
+        List result = jsonProvider.createList();;
         for (T filterItem : filterItems) {
             if (accept(filterItem)) {
                 result.add(filterItem);
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java
index 5981c760..e9971b0a 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.*;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.*;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.*;
 
 /**
  * A JsonModel holds a parsed JSON document and provides easy read and write operations. In contrast to the
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
index 5af8a171..cb708788 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.filter.PathTokenFilter;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.HttpProviderFactory;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProvider;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProviderFactory;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.*;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.*;
 
 /**
  * <p/>
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayQueryFilter.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayQueryFilter.java
index 80892f78..35044a45 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayQueryFilter.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ArrayQueryFilter.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class ArrayQueryFilter extends PathTokenFilter {
 
         Filter filter = filters.poll();
 
-        return filter.doFilter((List)obj);
+        return filter.doFilter(jsonProvider.toList(obj), jsonProvider);
 
     }
 
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java
index 36bf57c8..e6077537 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/eval/ExpressionEvaluator.java
@@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ public class ExpressionEvaluator {
             } else if ("!=".equals(comparator) || "<>".equals(comparator)) {
                 return !a.equals(expected);
             }
+        } else if (actual instanceof Boolean) {
+
+            Boolean a = (Boolean) actual;
+            Boolean e = Boolean.valueOf(expected);
+            if ("==".equals(comparator)) {
+                return a.equals(e);
+            } else if ("!=".equals(comparator) || "<>".equals(comparator)) {
+                return !a.equals(e);
+            }
         }
 
         return false;
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java
index 10951b84..c0abb31e 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 package com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.impl;
 
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProvider;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.SerializationUtils;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.List;
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ExpressionEvalTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ExpressionEvalTest.java
index 8ee09297..be23e647 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ExpressionEvalTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ExpressionEvalTest.java
@@ -60,5 +60,23 @@ public class ExpressionEvalTest {
 
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void boolean_eval() throws Exception {
+
+        assertTrue(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(true, "==", "true"));
+        assertTrue(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(false, "==", "false"));
+        assertTrue(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(true, "!=", "false"));
+        assertTrue(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(true, "<>", "false"));
+        assertTrue(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(false, "!=", "true"));
+        assertTrue(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(false, "<>", "true"));
+
+        assertFalse(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(true, "==", "false"));
+        assertFalse(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(false, "==", "true"));
+        assertFalse(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(true, "!=", "true"));
+        assertFalse(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(true, "<>", "true"));
+        assertFalse(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(false, "!=", "false"));
+        assertFalse(ExpressionEvaluator.eval(false, "<>", "false"));
+
+    }
 
 }
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/HttpProviderTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/HttpProviderTest.java
index 1b732ef6..5e238637 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/HttpProviderTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/HttpProviderTest.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public class HttpProviderTest {
         try {
             inputStream =  HttpProviderFactory.getProvider().get(url);
 
-            byte[] bytes = sun.misc.IOUtils.readFully(inputStream, -1, true);
+            byte[] bytes = org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toByteArray(inputStream);
             
             String json = new String(bytes).trim();
 
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java
index c87d56b0..97949795 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.jayway.jsonpath;
 
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.impl.JacksonProvider;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.SerializationUtils;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e3c9bb00..b8cdc020 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
     <artifactId>json-path-parent</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    <version>0.8.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.8.1-HBO</version>
     <url>https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath</url>
     <name>json-path-parent-pom</name>
     <description>Java JsonPath implementation</description>
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>
-                <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-                <version>2.6</version>
+                <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+                <version>3.1</version>
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>
@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@
                 <version>4.10</version>
                 <scope>test</scope>
             </dependency>
+            
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                <version>2.4</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
 </project>
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