Great to see M6 release out guys. My favourite ORM keeps getting better. regards Malcolm Edgar
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <amania...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > Download: http://cayenne.apache.org/download.html > > Full release notes: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12313759&styleName=Text&projectId=12310903 > > > Ari Maniatis, on behalf of the Cayenne PMC >
