Sunday, June 07, 2009

EL4J Release 1.6 is out!

I am glad to announce the new EL4J release 1.6!

There are quite a large number of new features:

  • DataExtent for controlling eager loading of Hibernate Entities
  • JAX-WS upgrade
  • First release of the Hibernate offliner
  • Cleaned up env support (to share config between Maven and Spring, now each module can incrementally define its configuration in an XML file)
  • Database scripts can now be versioned and only the "right" upgrade scripts are then applied
  • ID fixer improvements (to get hibernate session semantics even outside of a Hibernate session, e.g. with remoting)
  • Support for the Maven Sonar plugin
  • Better handling of the PK with Hibernate (our convenience parent class for entity objects)
  • Full JPA support in Hibernate (e.g. @PrePersist can be enabled).
  • Upgrades for many libraries C3P0 instead of DBCP, Spring, Maven, …
  • Bugfixes and clean-ups
More info can be found in the release notes:
http://el4j.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/el4j/trunk/el4j/etc/ReleaseNotes.txt