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Dali feature backlog post 2.0
Dali Feature Backlog
(as of Dali 2.1 release)
Deferred from past releases
Extensibility
- Entity Generation extensibility 175177 (Help Wanted)
More Spec support
- Support Callbacks 198985 (Low Priority)
- Multiple Persistent Unit support (Non-overlapping – classes must be listed in persistence.xml) 194833 (3.0?)
- Java Class file support 197069 (2.2)
- Cross project references
Usability/Integration (take further advantage of Eclipse integration)
- Quick Fixes (lower priority)
- Java UI indicator to show where XML is overriding Java annotations 194673(lower priority)
- ORM XML element/attribute value completion 188940 (Medium)
Other Major Enhancement Requests
EclipseLink
- Additional support for EclipseLink provider specific annotations and mapping file content(2.2)
JPA 2.0
- Preview support for JPA 2.0 features (high)
Extensibility
- API
More Spec support
- Enhance Validation (many enhancements associated with this in bugzilla) (medium-high priority)
- Conflicting mapping annotations - Basic and One to One on same attribute; resource model validation
- Enhance inheritance support (change strategies mid hierarchy) 141528 (eclipselink related - lower priority)
- Additional Query support (high)
Usability/Integration (take further advantage of Eclipse integration)
- Tabbed Properties integration (not currently possible, but still fighting the good fight)
- Participate in Java Refactoring 136333 (higher priority)
- Enhance Entity Gen (look for contributions) (2.2)
- Type configuration (some support now by editing platform def files)
- Add relationship management code (add/remove)
- Detect existing entities when generating new entities from schema 146451 (helpwanted)
- Many others
- Autosync between project and persistence.xml 141421 (medium priority)
- Multi-select “Make Entity” support 182849 (low priority)
- Action to move annotation metadata to XML Mapping File metadata for a given attribute?, type, package, or project. 138622(3.0?)
- Remove Utility Module requirement 234383(higher priority)
- Unify class specification(linking, lightbulbs, etc) 231533(higher priority)