[ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0-beta2 released

[Donald Woods <dw...@apache.org>]

The Apache OpenJPA project is proud to release OpenJPA 2.0.0 Beta 2 [1].
This distribution is based on the final JSR 317 Java Persistence API,
Version 2.0 specification [2] and passes the JPA 2.0 TCK. This release
includes several bugs fixes and enhancements since the first Beta
release as listed in the release notes [3]. This 2.0 release includes
many new enhancements and fixes; giving developers
access to a JPA 2.0 compliant implementation, while maintaining
backwards compatibility for existing JPA 1.0 applications.

Some of the new JPA 2.0 features worth noting, include:
Access Types, Embeddables, Enhanced Map Collections, Derived Identities,
Typed and type-safe Query and Query Results APIs, enhanced Locking, JPQL
updates, L2 Cache, Bean Validation, Metamodel and Criteria APIs for
programmatic construction of type-safe queries, new properties and query
hints, and many more....

Please visit the OpenJPA 2.0.0 Beta 2 page [1] to download the release
and obtain more details on the new JPA 2.0 features or visit the JPA 2.0
Roadmap page [4] for the latest status on the upcoming 2.0.0 release.

[1] http://cwiki.apache.org/openjpa/openjpa-200-beta-2.html
[2] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
[3]
http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/2.0.0-beta2/apache-openjpa-2.0.0-beta2/RELEASE-NOTES.html
[4] http://cwiki.apache.org/openjpa/jpa-20-roadmap.html


Thanks,
Donald Woods
Apache OpenJPA PMC