DataNucleus Access Platform 3.0.5 Released

Jan 11th 2012- DataNucleus Access Platform 3.0.5 ("Newton") 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 3.0.5 includes the following changes over 3.0.4

  • Make use of bulk load from L2 cache on use of PM.getObjectsById
  • Support for override of metadata for inherited fields/properties in embedded objects
  • Fix to in-memory query evaluation when an order clause is null
  • Some clean ups for logging
  • Fix to default value of "datanucleus.identifier.case" which was incorrect in 3.0.4
  • RDBMS : dont load all query results when running non-tx when we retain the connection
  • RDBMS : Support for use of sql-type when there are multiple possible for a jdbc-type
  • RDBMS : Support various MySQL sql types such as LONGTEXT, MEDIUMBLOB etc
  • RDBMS : Some improved error messages
  • JSON : Support for enum fields
  • JSON : Support datastore identity
  • JSON : Support 1-1/1-N/M-N relations
  • JSON : Support field types that have long/String converters
  • JSON : Support versioning of objects
  • DB4O : Remove invalid import from OSGi info

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