On Oct 27, 2007, at 3:27 AM, Mikaël Cluseau wrote:
Didn't knew that, since 3.0 should implement JPA one day...
The way we handled it till now is by separating JDK 1.5 and 1.4 pieces in development to keep support for JDK 1.4 for the existing users. The 3.0 cayenne-server.jar is a mix of 1.4 and 1.5 classes, with later being either JPA-related stuff or optional extensions like enum extended types. But never mind what I just said :-). The decision has been made to go 1.5 all the way after 3.0M2, so we will be taking advantage of generics after that.
Regarding API ease of use... yes, some of the complexity emerged over time as we started to abstract things more (like the NamedQuery that allowed us to simplify ObjectContext interface). So 3.0 may be the time to address that, providing a new set of user-friendly API on top of all the new abstractions. This discussion came up a few times on the dev and user lists, with the latest round being this:
https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-877 Certainly lets keep this discussion going. Cheers, Andrus
