View source for Dali 0.5 planning

==0.5 Milestone Plan==

===Milestone 1 - Iteration 1: Feb 10, 2006 - Complete===
Iteration Goals:  
*Support broad array of annotations, including id, basic, and association mappings
*Support Embeddeds, MappedSuperclass,
*Integrated DB support via WTP's wst.rdb component
*DDL Generation (postponed to Milestone 2)
*Problems support for invalid mappings
*Compliant with EJB3 Persistence Spec - Proposed Final Draft (with exception of a name change for GeneratorType to GenerationType; this will be fixed in an early M1I2 build)

Target Compatibility:  Eclipse 3.1.2, WTP 1.0

===Milestone 1 - Iteration 2: March 10, 2006===
Iteration Goals:
*Entity Generation from Tables (Phase 1)
*DDL Generation from Entities
*Enhanced Problem reporting

Target Compatibility: Eclipse 3.1.2, WTP1.0.1

===Milestone 2: April 14, 2006===
Milestone Goals:
*Entity Generation from Tables (Phase 2)
*Management of persistence.xml (Moved to Milestone 3)
*Support for IdClass, EmbeddedID (Moved to Milestone 3)
*Support multiple JoinColumns for association mappings (Not implemented for M-M)
*Online Help, Developer guide (Added)

Target Compatibility: Eclipse 3.2M5, WTP1.5M5

===Milestone 3: May 12, 2006===
Milestone Goals:
*persistence.xml 
**Basic template creation when adding Java Persistence to a project
**Validation of persistence.xml (problems support)
**Support for synchronizing persistence.xml with Entity names
*Support for Inheritance (single table)
*Usability enhancements
**Off-line DB support through RDB component
**More intelligent listening of DB connection
*More Entity Generation enhancements

Target Compatibility: Eclipse 3.2RC2, WTP1.5RC2

===Milestone 4 / RC0: June 4th, 2006 (Feature freeze for 0.5)===
*More support for EmbeddedID 
*Support for Inheritance (join table)
*Better integration with Java refactoring
*Support for Temporal annotation
*Enhanced support for PK Generation
*Support for insertable and updateable

Target Compatibility: Eclipse 3.2RC6, WTP1.5RC4

===RC1: June 21st, 2006 (Code freeze for 0.5)===

Target Compatibility: Eclipse 3.2RC7, WTP1.5RC5

===RC2: Release 0.5: June 28, 2006===
This build should be available in as a WTP technology preview.

Target Compatibility: Eclipse 3.2, WTP1.5