EclipseLink/Development/MOXy

Roadmap

EclipseLink2.2

• MOXy External Metadata
  • Support entries from deployment.xml that are currently not represented in external XML file
  • Annotation support for MOXy advanced mappings & deployment.xml content.
• MOXy Dynamic Persistence
  • Bootstrapping from external OXM file. Estimate required.
• OSGi testing strategy?
  • Ability to create pure JAXB bundle
• Performance
  • Needs scoping out to determine targets for this release
• User documentation
  • Continual improvements based on User Guide ToC outline
• Integration points/mash-ups
  • JAXB: JAX-RS integration
  • Spring support for MOXy component
  • Marshalling to/from JSON, YAML
  • Improve large document support
  • Improve logging, exception handling
    • Needs scoping out to determine targets for this release
• EclipseLink2.2 MOXY, SDO bugs: OPEN
  • "Future bugs" need to be reviewed.
• EclipseLink2.2 MOXY, SDO bugs: RESOLVED

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Backlog of development items (MOXY, SDO)

1. MOXy External Metadata
   • Annotation support for MOXy advanced mappings
   • Support entries from deployment.xml that are currently not represented in external XML file
     • Transformation, Inverse mappings
2. MOXy Dynamic Persistence
   • Bootstrapping from external OXM file
3. SDO3.0 feature work
   • New bootstrap API
   • Improve class generation to include new SDO 3.0 annotations
   • Enhanced key based relationships
     • Composite keys
     • Embedded key objects
   • Property Improvements
     • XML XPath based property access
     • Orphan properties
     • Enum support
   • Import - Moving DataObjects between HelperContexts
4. OSGi testing strategy
   • Ability to create pure JAXB bundle
5. Performance
   1. Reduce use of Lexical Handler
   2. SDO: Improve ChangeSummary processing
   3. SDO: Improve post processing of unmarshalling SDO Objects
6. JAXB extensions
   1. Identify features to continue to align ourselves with reference implementation
7. Integration points/mash-ups
   1. JAX-WS2.0: Integration with EclipseLink JAXB
   2. JAXB: JAX-RS integration
   3. JAXB on Glassfish: Test our current level of support
   4. Investigate Spring support for MOXy component
   5. Marshalling to/from JSON, YAML
   6. Improve large document support
   7. Improve logging, exception handling
8. Bug backlog
   • MOXy, SDO Future bugs
   • Enhancement/External requests
     • 235850 Allow user to specify that text values should be trimmed
     • 280779 Converting SDO object to SDO/JAXB object
     • 298220 Overriding mapped xpaths for composite objects
     • 269045 Need better error message for NoSuchElementException
     • 298125 Add ability to map collection of elements with different names
     • 301232 Need an API to persist SDO Change Summary to XML