DataNucleus Access Platform 1.1.0 Released

Feb 23rd 2009- DataNucleus Access Platform 1.1.0 ("Rutherford") is released. DataNucleus Access Platform provides persistence and retrieval of Java objects to/from a wide range of datastores including RDBMS, db4o, LDAP, XML, and Excel. Version 1.1 includes the following changes over 1.1 M4

  • Add support for JDK1.6+ enhancement during the compilation.
  • Add support for persistence to Open Document Format (ODF) spreadsheets.

Version 1.1 includes the following over 1.0

  • Requires JDK1.5+
  • Support for in-memory evaluation of JDOQL/JPQL subqueries
  • Support for JDO2 PersistenceManager proxy
  • Support for JDO2.3 Metadata API
  • Support for JDO2.3 Enhancer API
  • Support for JDO2.3 query timeout/cancel API
  • Support for JDO2.2 transaction isolation control
  • JPA2 preview support for datastore cache, @OrderColumn, standardised properties, and various new query methods
  • RDBMS : rewrite of locate, fetch and some select SQL using a new SQL API
  • RDBMS : start of an alternative JDOQL implementation using a new SQL API
  • RDBMS : Support for persistence of interface fields into a single column
  • ODF : Support for persistence/querying of OpenDocument format spreadsheets
  • XML : Added support for 1-1, 1-N, M-N relations
  • XML : Added many improvements in configurability
  • LDAP : Support for various new mapping configurations.
  • LDAP : Support for native querying
  • Support for enhancement as part of the compilation process (JDK1.6+)
  • Dropped support for NucleusSQL query language
  • Dropped support for BCEL enhancer

This release is downloadable under an Apache 2 license from the DataNucleus community site.