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== EclipseLink 2.1: Advanced JPA ==

This page captures the work planned for EclipseLink 2.1 under the them of advanced JPA. The goal is to increase the number of advanced ORM features that can be accessed through JPA leveraging standard extension points, custom annotations, and custom XML.
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=== EntityManager ===

* Historical EntityManager
* EMF Broker

=== Mapping/Descriptor ===

* Additional Join (filter) on entity types and relationship mappings
* Instantiation Policy
* Historical Mapping
* Unary Table Sequencing

=== Querying ===

* Define additional FetchGroups using annotations or XML
* Additional operators
* user defined operators

=== Eclipselink ORM  ===

The following bugs are the current prioritized list of features that are to be worked on for the 2.1 release. NOTE: The complete list will not be completed. The list is worked on sequentially and potentially re-prioritized after a release. Bugs are ranked with a 1 through 5 priority which breaks down as follows:

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! Priority
! Description
|- 
| 1
| Must have for next release
|- 
| 2
| Important for next release
|- 
| 3
| Nice to have for next release
|- 
| 4
| Unlikely for next release
|- 
| 5
| Future
|}

Individual bugs will contain more information on the design and implementation. Queued bugs may not have any extra information at this time and are populated once those bugs become actively worked on.

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! Bug number
! Description
! Status 
! Priority
|- 
| {{bug|227219}}
| Expand EclipseLink-ORM.XML schema functionality for 2.1 release
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|296289}}
| Add current annotation metadata support on mapped superclasses
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|296612}}
| Add current annotation only metadata support of return insert/update
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|211323}}
| Class extractor support 
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|211324}}
| Additional event(s) support
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|211322}}
| Fetch-group(s) support 
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|303632}}
| attribute-type for mapping attributes (Dynamic persistence)
| Completed
|- 
| {{bug|267217}}
| VIRTUAL Access Type (Dynamic persistence)
| Completed
| 
|- 
| {{bug|307050}}
| VIRTUAL Access Type Defaults (Dynamic persistence)
| Completed
| 
|- 
| {{bug|309373}}
| Add parent class element to EclipseLink-ORM (Dynamic persistence)
| Completed
| 
|- 
| {{bug|253083}}
| Support for dynamic persistence using ORM.xml/eclipselink-orm.xml
| Completed
|
|}


Bugs to move to next release ...

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! Bug number
! Description
! Status 
! Priority
|- 
| {{bug|312910}}
| Expand EclipseLink-ORM.XML schema functionality for 2.x release
| Queued
| 1
|- 
| {{bug|312913}}
| Expand VIRTUAL class support
| Queued
| 1
|- 
| {{bug|312915}}
| Add id-class attributes (VIRTUAL class support)
| Queued
| 1
|- 
| {{bug|312918}}
| Add enum type support (VIRTUAL class support)
| Queued
| 1
|- 
| {{bug|211306}}
| Query-key(s) support
| Queued
| 1
|- 
| {{bug|211305}}
| XMLType or data-type support
| Queued
| 2
|- 
| {{bug|221876}}
| Structure support
| Queued
| 2
|- 
| {{bug|211299}}
| PLSQL support
| Queued
| 2
|- 
| {{bug|224634}}
| OneToOnes targeting non id fields and foreign target relationships
| Queued
| 3
|- 
| {{bug|211331}}
| target-join-column support
| Queued
| 3
|- 
| {{bug|211318}}
| Multiple table join support
| Queued
| 4
|- 
| {{bug|211319}}
| Multiple table foreign-key(s) support
| Queued
| 4
|- 
| {{bug|211320}}
| Inheritance-join(s) support
| Queued
| 4
|- 
| {{bug|211309}}
| Mapping custom-sql/call support
| Queued
| 4
|- 
| {{bug|211311}}
| Mapping selection-criteria
| Queued
| 4
|- 
| {{bug|211328}}
| History support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|211312}}
| Query sequence support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|222622}}
| XML file sequence support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|211314}}
| Unary table sequence support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|211327}}
| Interface(s) support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|224704}}
| All indirection policies and types support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|226515}}
| Descriptor query policy support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|211317}}
| Additional join support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|222295}}
| Read subclasses on queries support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|211301}}
| Aggregate collection mapping support
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|218082}}
| Provide EclipseLink Project to XMLEntityMappings conversion tool
| Queued
| 5
|- 
| {{bug|200043}}
| Migration from Oracle TopLink Metadata 
| Queued
| 5
|}

=== Database Specific Features ===

==== Oracle ====
* Spatial mapping and querying
* XML Type mapping and querying