Apache Bean Validation 0.1-incubating voting completed

The Apache Bean Validation 0.1-incubating vote from the Incubator PMC has concluded and we can now publish our first release!

Apache OpenJPA Bean Validation primer

Jeremy has created a Bean Validation primer on the Apache OpenJPA site, which describes the new JSR-303 Bean Validation spec in Java EE 6 along with how it can be used with JPA 2.0. He also includes an image-gallery sample, which shows how to use Apache Bean Validation with Apache OpenJPA v2.

OSGi/JPA2 Feature Pack for IBM WAS v7

IBM released a combined OSGi and JPA Feature Pack for IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 today, which includes OSGi Blueprint and EBA based programming model from Apache Aries 0.1-incubating along with JPA 2.0 support from Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0.

Using OpenJPA2 Criteria API in Apache Daytrader

Dianne has created instructions and a patch on the Apache OpenJPA site which shows how to modify the Apache Geronimo Daytrader sample to use the new Criteria API that was introduced in JPA 2.0.

Apache Bean Validation now passes TCK

Apache Bean Validation 0.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT is now passing the JSR303 Bean Validation TCK!

Apache OpenJPA OpenBooks sample

Pinaki has created an OpenBooks sample in the Apache OpenJPA trunk, which can be used to demonstration new JPA 2.0 features such as: Criteria Query; Compound, Derived identity Orphan Delete; Persistent Domain Model API; ....

Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0 released

The Apache OpenJPA community is proud to announce the release of Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0. The release is available for download at [1].

This distribution is a fully compliant and production ready implementation of the Java Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification (JSR 317 - [2]).

For more information about OpenJPA 2.0.0, please checkout the release notes at [3].

[1] http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html
[2] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
[3] http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/2.0.0/apache-openjpa-2.0.0/RELEASE-NOTES.html