[news.eclipse.rt.eclipselink] Re: mappingworkbench private owned vs. cas

[douglas.clarke@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug Clarke)]

Wolfgang,

It is actually the same development team from the Workbench who is 
building Dali. The Workbench provides a great solution for mapping classes 
based on their byte-codes but with JPA and JAXB providing mapping 
capabilities using annotations it becomes very difficult to have the 
workbench modify source without effectively building an IDE.

Our goal is to continue to enhance Dali to deliver all the standard JPA 
mapping features you need while also providing EclipseLink specific 
extensions to leverage advanced features. Dali does provide support for 
generating a JPA entity model from the schema and will soon support the 
eclipselink-orm.xml mapping file with our advanced features.

The Dali newsgroup is available here if you wish to give feedback directly 
to the development team:

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.technology.dali

and the features for the next Dali release are described here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Dali_2.1Planning

If there are features in the workbench you want to see in Dali please let 
us know.

Doug