Re: [CONF] Apache Cayenne Website: Cayenne 3.0M6 Released (25 May 2009) (news created)

From: Michael Gentry (mgentr..asslight.net)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 13:40:21 EDT

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    "In response to user demand, the Cayenne team..."

    How about:

    "In response to developer revolt, the Cayenne team..." :-)

    Seriously, just leave out the user demand part and it'll probably be fine:

    "The Cayenne team..."

    Thanks,

    mrg

    On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <ar..aniatis.org> 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
    >
    >
    > Cheers
    > Ari
    >
    >
    > On 27/05/2009, at 11:32 PM, confluenc..pache.org wrote:
    >
    >> 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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