Re: [ann] new release: OJB 1.0

[João Mota <jo...@ist.utl.pt>]

Congratulations,

we were very anxious waiting for this release. Thank you.

João Mota

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:08, Mahler Thomas wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm very happy to announce the final 1.0 release of OJB.
> After a long series of release candidates we finally got enough confidence in our software 
> to call it "ready for prime time".
> 
> As you can see by our ever growing list of junit tests we pay attention to quality assurance.
> So the long delay of the 1.0 version was not caused by "laziness" but rather by 
> our intention to deliver a piece of top quality software.
> 
> I want to say thanks to all committers and contributors: 
> You all helped to get OJB production ready!
> 
> I also want to thank all users for their patience and 
> I hope you all will be pleased by this 1.0 release!  
> 
> 
> >From the release notes:
> ========================================================================
> ObJectRelationalBridge -- Bridging Java Objects and Relational Databases
> ========================================================================
> 
> ObJectRelationalBridge (OJB) is an Object/Relational mapping tool that
> provides transparent transactional persistence for Java Objects against
> relational databases. OJB provides ODMG and JDO interfaces.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Release 1.0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> NEW FEATURES:
> --
> 
> NOTES:
> --
> 
> CHANGES:
> - We introduce new PersistentField implementations in OJB.properties file called
> PersistentFieldXXXXImplNew. Per default one of the new PersistentField implementations was
> used. If you hit problems please send a report. You can reverting to old impl by
> changing property 'PersistentFieldClass' in OJB.prperties file. The new versions
> has much better performance in read/write nested fields (up to 50 times faster than
> the 'old' implementions) and will replace the old classes on next version. Because
> PersistentField is an important kernel class we wait for community response before
> final replacement.
> 
> BUG FIXES:
> Please refer to our Bug tracking site (http://issues.apache.org/scarab/servlet/scarab/)
> under http://issues.apache.org/scarab/servlet/scarab/issues/id/OJBxxx
> to see details for a bug with id OJBxxx.
> 
> 
> KNOWN ISSUES:
> - The default ojb escape character '\' does not work for database using the same default as well and
> should therefore be double-escaped. As a workaround always use a custom escape character:
> 
> 	LikeCriteria.setEscapeCharacter('|');
> 	Criteria crit = new Criteria();
> 	crit.addLike("firstname", "h%|%");
> 
> This issue is fixed for MySql and PostgreSql so far.
> 
> - odmg-api: If a user exchange already existing objects in 1:n references without changing the size
> of the collection, the main object will not become dirty and the FK values of the exchanged objects
> will not be updated.
> E.g. two objects obj_1 anf obj_2 with 1:n reference to ref objects, each with one
> existing/persistent reference object, obj_1{ref_1} and obj_2{ref_2}.
> Lock objects and exchange the references in collection obj_1{ref_2}
> and obj_2{ref_1} and commit --> FK values of ref_1 and ref_2 will not be updated.
> 
> - odmg-api: Creation of m:n relation only works when objects created step by step (or use PB-api
> as workaround), persist a whole object graph seems not to work proper.
> 
> - ReportQueries should not be used with columns referencing Classes with extents:
> 
>     ReportQueryByCriteria q = QueryFactory.newReportQuery(ProductGroup.class, crit);
>     q.setAttributes(new String[] { "groupName", "sum(allArticlesInGroup.stock)", "sum(allArticlesInGroup.price)" });
>     q.addGroupBy("groupName");
> 
>     ProductGroup.allArticlesInGroup points to class Article having multiple extents.
> 
>     As a workaround the query can be 'reversed' :
> 
>     ReportQueryByCriteria q = QueryFactory.newReportQuery(Article.class, crit);
>     q.setAttributes(new String[] { "productGroup.groupName", "sum(stock)", "sum(price)" });
>     q.addGroupBy("productGroup.groupName");
> 
>     Due to the fact the Article has extents multiple selects will be executed,
>     so the same ProductGroup may show up more than once.
> 
>     Please see the testcases QueryTest#testReportQueryGroupByExtents1 and
>     QueryTest#testReportQueryGroupByExtents2.
> 
> - A count on ReportQueries containing groupBy does not deliver a correct result.
> 
> - Batch handling doesn't work proper with optimistic locking. This will be fixed
> before long after 1.0
> 
> 
> enjoy,
> Thomas
> 
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