Minutes: JDO TCK Conference Call Friday, March 3, 9 am PST

[Craig L Russell <Cr...@Sun.COM>]

Attendees: Michelle Caisse, Michael Bouschen, Martin Zaun, Craig Russell

Agenda:

1. Test status (Michael) 1158 tests 2 failures 6 errors 2 of 48  
configurations fail. This is after JDO-311 is fixed, so inheritance2  
and inheritance3 tests don't run (JPOX doesn't support these optional  
mappings).

Two of the errors are unmodifiable query issues. AI Craig file a JIRA  
on the unmodifiable query.

2. New tests status (Martin) Patches have been added to JIRA issues  
JDO-299 and JDO-309. Signature test and multithreaded test. The  
signature test needs its own configuration (signature.conf) and the  
test should be in the package org.apache.jdo.tck next to JDO_Test.

3. Spec release status (Craig) Final approval ballot is underway in  
the JCP. So far, one vote in favor: Sun.

4. Detachment tests status (Matthew) no change. Craig has added a  
patch to the JIRA issue.

5. jdo metadata files issues (Michael) JPOX issues error messages  
with the XSD definitions but the tests run anyway. Probably not an  
issue. Michael has updated the XML test program.

6. Other issues (any and all)

Erik raised the issue of checking whether the native strategy is  
practical. It might be possible to avoid closing the PMF for each  
test. AI Craig reply to Erik's message with a JDO_Test patch.

Michael has added patches for query testing for projections of  
collections and maps; and public static final field.

Action Items from weeks past:

[Feb 24 2006]  Martin)Signature test is underway; due Tuesday.   
Thread safe test due today. In progress.

[Feb 24 2006] Michael send mail on putting the xsd header info into  
the specification. Done. It is part of the final spec.

[Feb 24 2006] The new XMLTest in the api20 project could be enhanced  
so users could  check their own .jdo .orm, and .jdoquery files. AI  
Michael file a  JIRA to discuss. Done.

[Feb 24 2006] We should add a negative query test for projecting a  
map and  collection field. AI Michael file a JIRA to add a new query.  
Done

[Feb 24 2006] One of the query tests fails. JDO-310 DERBY-39 for  
details. AI Craig: Can we  get some help on this from the Derby team?  
Craig asked at the team meeting. AI Craig: follow up.

[[Feb 17 2006] Implicit variable with the same name as a class modulo  
case, elicits a new problem wherein generated SQL does not execute on  
Derby. AI Michael B: file a JIRA.

[Feb 17 2006] AI: Michael B to check in fixes to xsd and upload patch  
to JIRA for tests. AI Craig: review schema tests. Done.

[Feb 17 2006] AI Eric: Investigate implementation's ability to use  
native identity strategy given an identity column in the schema. It  
looks good for Derby, but there is a performance issue with this. Done.

[Feb 17 2006] AI Craig: Discuss spec change involving native identity  
strategy with expert group. No longer needed.

[Feb 3 2006] AI Michael W fix list of teardown classes in company   
model reader. JDO-285. But this fix cannot be checked in until JPOX   
is fixed.

[Jan 20 2005]  AI Craig look at new life cycle tests to see if it  
can  fail at the end printing failure messages. AI Craig review the  
spec  updates to make sure the test is consistent. AI Craig: resolve  
the  test case and spec issues.

[Jan 20 2005]  AI Craig check in the released beta artifacts  to the  
JDO maven repository (create a new releases directory parallel  to  
trunk and branches). Done.

[Jan 13 2005] AI Martin look at the enhancement tests for   
completeness (JDO-64). Lower priority.

[Jan 6 2005] AI: Michael: need to add a public static final field in   
a public class to test fully qualified class name static field in  
query. Done. Filed a JIRA issue on JPOX.

[Dec 23 2005] Query tests (Michael B) Looking at JDO-194 errors on   
Windows that don't happen on Linux. Might be a JRE bug. AI Martin   
file a Java bug so we know that there is a Java issue. Done. Not a  
JDK bug.

[Dec 23 2005] Fetch depth discussion: The spec needs more  
information  than is there in the PFD. AI Craig get more jdo experts  
involved in  the discussion. In progress. Done. Added MaxFetchDepth  
property to FetchPlan.

[Dec 9 2005]: Nontransactional write semantics appear to differ   
between optimistic and datastore transactions. Is this intentional?   
AI: Craig discuss with expert group. Done. It is intentional.
[Dec 2 2005] Inheritance 3 fails. Optimization of inheritance 1  
where  there is no  table for abstract classes. JPOX doesn't support  
it. AI  Craig:  discuss this mapping with expert group. It might be  
an  optional feature. Done.

[Nov 18 2005] AI: BEA to sign the donation paperwork for their test    
suite. Review how to merge their test cases into JDO TCK. The latest  
news in BEA is that BEA plans to donate their object persistence  
engine to open source; it's not clear where they will do this,  
perhaps in Apache as a sister project to Apache JDO.

[Nov 4 2005] AI Martin: Update Martin's wiki with discusion of JDK    
1.5 issues. in progress

[Sep 2 2005] AI: To recruit members, update the web site. Articles   
on  TheServerSide directing attention to the site. T-shirts, logo.   
AI:  Craig write a ServerSide article.

[July 29 2005] AI: Michelle Chapter 18 wiki needs to be updated to    
include all JDO metadata elements and attributes. [not done]

[April 15 2005] AI: Brian Topping will do the maven goal for  
creating   and uploading the snapshots. He will create a directory  
parallel to   trunk called "releases" and put the snapshots there.

[May 13 2005] AI: Brian Topping will arrange for automated nightly    
builds.



Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!