EclipseLink/Development/2.1/AdvancedJPA
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.
Contents
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:
| 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.
| Bug number | Description | Status | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ...
| Bug number | Description | Status | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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