Release Notes for Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0-beta2


Overview

The Apache OpenJPA community is proud to release a Beta 2 distribution of OpenJPA 2.0.0. This distribution is based on the final JSR 317 Java Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification and passes the JPA 2.0 TCK, while remaining backwards compatiable with prior releases based on the Java Persistence API (JPA 1.0) part of Java Community Process JSR-220 (Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0). Included in this release are many enhancements, fixes, and new functionality; giving developers access to all the new features of JPA 2.0, including:

This Beta 2 distribution is based upon the contributions provided in development iterations after the Beta, as defined in the JPA 2.0 Roadmap at: http://openjpa.apache.org/jpa-20-roadmap.html

The JPA 2.0 Roadmap contains a complete list of implemented features and feature summaries, including what is on deck for future iterations.

Additional information on the OpenJPA project may be found at the project web site: http://openjpa.apache.org

Prerequisites

In normal usage, OpenJPA requires Java 5 or higher and a relational database of some sort.

Documentation

If you have questions about OpenJPA, a good source of information is the online product manual. You can find the manual for the current release as well as older releases of OpenJPA at http://openjpa.apache.org/documentation.html

If you can't find what you're looking for in the manual or would like more clarification you please post to the OpenJPA development mailing list. Information on all of the OpenJPA mailing lists may be found here: http://openjpa.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Getting Involved

The Apache OpenJPA project is being built by the open source community for the open source community - we welcome your input and contributions!

What we are looking for:

How do I Contribute?


License

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

The license may also be found in LICENSE.txt which is included in each release of OpenJPA.

Notice

Copyright 2006,2010 The Apache Software Foundation
This product includes software developed at The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Apache OpenJPA includes the persistence and orm schemas from the JPA specifications.
Copyright 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Apache OpenJPA elects to include this software in this distribution under the CDDL license.
You can obtain a copy of the License at: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL.html
The source code is available at: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/source/browse/glassfish/

The complete list of notices can be found in NOTICE.txt included in each assembly.


Release Notes

OpenJPA 2.0.0-beta2

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OpenJPA 2.0.0 Beta

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OpenJPA 2.0.0 Milestone 3

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OpenJPA 2.0.0 Milestone 2 Release

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OpenJPA 2.0.0 Milestone 1 Release

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Previous Releases

Release notes for earlier releases of OpenJPA may be found in SVN at the following locations.

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