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

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 13:34:32 EDT

  • Next message: Michael Gentry: "Re: [CONF] Apache Cayenne Website: Cayenne 3.0M6 Released (25 May 2009) (news created)"

    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
    >
    >
    > 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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