[news.eclipse.technology.jsr220-orm] Re: M2 good, but missing important

["Robert Greene" <rgreene@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Darren,

We are planning on releasing support for most of the unimplemented features
before M2 moves out of beta.  The notable exception may be support for XML
meta data, but we are working to get this as well..  Constraint support is
also an issue as that is tied to the rdb module, so we may have constraint
support for only some subsection of databases.   We should get M2 done
within the next 4 weeks at the outside.   As far as requests for features
go, this news groups is as good a place as any right now.  In the future, we
will put more information on the website regarding the detailed roadmap of
features and their release timing.

We do not have as much testing as we would like, some may argue there is
never enough testing,  so we are hoping that the community will give us a
hand and play with the release in it's current form and provide feedback
that we can incorporate before the final Milestone release.   That being
said, thanks for the feedback ;-)

Can you provide more information on the @Id issue.  This annotation is
already supported, so we should not be marking the classes as having no
@Id.....unless there is a class that is not derived and does not define an
Id annotation.   Are you talking about the case where you are inheriting the
@Id tag from a superclass?   Is it only with the @EmbeddedSuperclass
annotated class hierarchies?   If that is the case, this should be a side
effect of us not currently supporting that annotation.   Classes that
inherit from Non-Embedded persistent super classes should be fine without an
@Id tag .... which should rightfully be inherited from the superclass.

Cheers,
-Robert

Robert Greene
JSR220-ORM team lead
rgreene@xxxxxxxxxxx



"Darren Bell" <djb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Just downloaded the M2 release and what i see so far is good.
> But, we cannot use it yet as all our domain classes extend a super
> class.  That superclass is annotated with @EmbeddedSuperclass and that
> class defines the @Id annotation.
>
> Also, the superclass also defines an @Embedded clas which contains
> things like entered date, updated date and so on.
>
> The plugin marks all the classes as having no @Id.  Looking on the
> website is does say that this is not implemented yet.
>
> When are those "unimplemented features" due to be implemented?  M3?
> Also, if not all those features, where can i request those?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darren
> Dolby Labs Inc.