I won't say we froze JPA "in response to user demand", but otherwise
looks great to me.
Andrus
On May 27, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> This is the most wordy (and slightly controversial) release note
> I've written. I'll leave it 24 hours if anyone has amendments to
> this before I touch the front page to have it update, and send to
> the email lists/freshmeat/etc/etc
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> Cheers
> Ari
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> On 27/05/2009, at 11:32 PM, confluenc..pache.org wrote:
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>> New News: CAYSITE : Cayenne 3.0M6 Released (25 May 2009)
>> Cayenne 3.0M6 Released (25 May 2009) has been created by Ari
>> Maniatis (May 27, 2009).
>>
>> Content:
>> Another release on the journey to Cayenne 3.0! This milestone adds
>> a plethora of new features including quoting of identifiers (useful
>> for db column names with spaces), nested contexts in ROP, and EJBQL/
>> SQLTemplate/ProcedureQuery queries now support the full range of
>> configuration options available to native SelectQueries. The
>> Modeler received new features such schema analysis on startup
>> (which can prompt the user to create or upgrade the database
>> schema) and support for EJBQL. Naturally, lots of bug fixes have
>> also made it into Cayenne in the last 5 months since the previous
>> milestone.
>>
>> In response to user demand, the Cayenne team have also decided to
>> not target JPA compliance for 3.0, and instead focus on further
>> improvements to the range and flexibility of the native API.
>> Although Cayenne may return to focus on JPA in the future, the work
>> done already (such as lifecycle events, EJBQL, etc) has been very
>> useful and will remain important parts of Cayenne for everyone to
>> use. Cayenne's clean and powerful API is one of the main reasons
>> users choose this library and focussing our efforts there is our
>> primary goal.
>>
>> We hope you enjoy this latest release. There will probably be only
>> one more release with new features before 3.0 is settled into beta
>> testing, so we encourage everyone to try this latest milestone, and
>> report back to us with any important missing functionality. We have
>> several developers who track Cayenne trunk reasonably closely in
>> production systems, so we are confident of the stability of this
>> release. It is likely that there will be some API changes before
>> the final 3.0 is released.
>>
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