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+2014-Dec 
+Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project
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+ == Summary ==
+   Apache OpenJPA is a persistent object management kernel for relational and non-relational
+   databases. For relational database, OpenJPA provides persistence for Plain Old Java Object (POJO).
+   OpenJPA is compliant to industry-standard Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) version 2.0
+   version and runs in stand-alone JSE as well as JEE containers and many other lightweight frameworks, 
+   such as Tomcat, TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
+   
+
+ == Community ==
+   OpenJPA developers had, over past several years, not only developed a general-purpose,
+   stable software for complex Object-Relational Mapping but also ensured its stability 
+   across many released versions. 
+   
+   However, developer resource is shrinking as many senior committers are not active and 
+   new volunteers are hard to come by as new development opportunities are rare and hard 
+   to incorporate. Also lack of strong corporate interest/sponsorship is affecting future 
+   growth/expansion of the community.
+   
+   PMC members are exploring how to invigorate the project.
+   
+   We hope that the Board members may be able to share their experience on how to re-energize
+   a matured project in its maintenance phase of life. 
+      
+      
+   == Recent Work ==
+   OpenJPA development team member Jody Grassel has upgraded Serp bytecode library
+   to version 1.15 for Java 8 language features (e.g. lambda expression) and integrated 
+   OpenJPA with the upgrade. 
+   As OpenJPA natively uses bytecode enhancement, supporting Java 8 has more than usual impact on OpenJPA.       
+
+   Many requests have been received for upgrade to JPA 2.1 compliance. Prototype work for supporting
+   JPA 2.1 features such as Store Procedure support has started.
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