EclipseLink Team Blog

EclipseLink: Multitenancy with Oracle VPD

2011-08-23T11:27:00.000-07:00

As of EclipseLink Indigo (2.3.0) you have been able to use the @Multitenant feature to share a database schema between multiple tenants. Did you know that you can also use this feature together with the Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) support that has been available in EclipseLink since version 1.0?

This powerful combination of features allows for the shared tables to be managed directly on the database, and for inserts to be automatically associated with the proper client. Any SQL executed by EclipseLink (even if EclipseLink did not generate it - ie native queries) will go through VPD and return only the client specific rows.

Since VPD can be configured per table, applications can be configured to use VPD on some tables, and share others.

A running example, complete with source code is available on the EclipseLink wiki.

GlassFish 3.1.1 Ships with EclipseLink 2.3!

2011-07-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

GlassFish 3.1.1 shipped today which makes it the first application server with the new multi-tenancy and extensible persistence unit support as well as all the other new features included in EclipseLink 2.3. If you're a GlassFish developer and you're upgrading to 3.1.1 you can find out all about the new features available in EclipseLink 2.3 on the EclipseLink Wiki.

To wet your appetite, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine posted a screencast of building a multi-tenant enabled application on a pre-release build of GlassFish 3.1.1 on his blog and now would be a great time to check it out!

Shaun Smith, EclipseLink Team
@shaunmsmith

EclipseLink 2.3.0 (Indigo) Released

2011-06-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

Since joining the family here at Eclipse a few years ago, one thing I can always count on is a hectic and exciting start to summer. This summer is no exception, and is kicked off with the release of EclipseLink 2.3.0 (Indigo).

Before I continue with brief descriptions of some of the new features of EclipseLink 2.3.0, I would like to thank everyone who was involved with this release. Whether your contribution to the project consisted of finding and entering bugs, contributing to the forums, or designing and implementing features, your contribution was important to the success of this project. Thank you, and I look forward to your contributions to our next major releases.

There are too many features and enhancement requests to touch on everything in this blog post, so I am going to limit it to what I believe are the highlights. For a complete 2.3.0 feature list, and to download and try out some of this stuff yourself, please click here.

Extend Entities
2.3.0 offers EclipseLink users the ability to extend their model (JPA entities or MOXy JAXB beans) so that a set of additional extended mappings can be used at runtime. These additional mappings offer more flexibility for developers that may not know all the mappings required for the application at design time.

Support Multiple Tenants
2.3.0 offers developers the ability to design and deploy applications where their persistent entities for multiple tenants are stored in a shared table. A column (or columns) in the table is designated as the discriminator for the tenant.

Externalize Mappings
Mappings for your model (JPA entities or MOXy JAXB beans) can now be stored externally to the running application. This allows mapping overrides and extended mappings (new in 2.3.0) to be easily and dynamically integrated into deployed applications.

Multiple Database
Developers can now store different entities in different databases, and even have relationships between them using Composite Persistence Units (PU). This feature gives developers the ability to build persistence units, each connecting to their own datasource, and compose them together under a parent PU. The parent PU is then used as if it is a standard persistence unit.

Click here for more information, including examples and docs, on the above features, and to download 2.3.0.

Peter

EclipseLink Indigo Preview: Shared Databases for Multiple Tenants

2011-06-17T12:11:00.000-07:00

Challenged to take an existing application and re-use it for a new customer or group of users (tenant)? Instead of customizing the application, adding new hardware or re-configuring the database for each new tenant, you can now build EclipseLink JPA enabled applications hosting requests from multiple tenants with all their data co-located.

Starting with EclipseLink 2.3, part of the annual Eclipse Indigo release, you can now have multiple application tenants sharing a database schema. EclipseLink enables you to configure your database tables for shared storage by simply providing tenant discriminator column(s) and providing values for these discriminators within your application. This allows your tenants to share the same schema without being aware of one another.

Of course in some instances, you may wish to share some data across tenants. No problem! EclipseLink allows you to share and isolate as much or as little as your application requires.

The beauty and ease of creating such an environment lies simply in decorating those entities that need to be isolated per tenants with an @Multitenant specification. Shared entities need not be configured any further then required by the JPA specification.

For more information on how to take advantage of this new functionality, follow the link:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Multitenant

Please note: The final release date for EclipseLink 2.3 is June 22, 2011 and the examples and documentation will evolve as the release date approaches. If you would like more detail, please check back after the release date or take advantage of our mailing lists and forums.

Extend your Persistence Unit on the fly

2011-06-10T11:02:00.001-07:00

Imagine a system that keeps track of player statistics in a sports league. Personal information such as name, height, weight and basic statistics such as the number of games played is stored for all players.

A persistence unit is deployed with all the mappings described above.

The system admin of a basketball league wants to use the system and add mappings for points scored and fouls. As the system is running they tell EcliseLink about mappings for those fields and the next EntityManager they get uses them.

Starting with EclipseLink 2.3, you can do just that. To do that, all you have to do is:

- Build a traditional persistence unit
- Tweak your Entities so they can hold added mappings
- Build room for additional data into your database schema
- Define a repository to contain your additional mappings and tell EclipseLink about it

With those steps, any EntityManager created from your persistence unit will use your new mappings.

Additionally, you can refresh your EntityManagerFactory. Any EntityManager created after the refresh will use any new mappings added to the repository since the previous refresh.

The following link shows an example of how a system as described above could be configured. Please note: The final release date for EclipseLink 2.3 is June 22, 2011 and the examples and documentation will evolve as we get closer to that date. If you would like more detail, please check back after the release date or take advantage of our mailing lists and forums.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Extensibility

EclipseLink RefCardz Available

2011-06-03T11:32:00.000-07:00

A new RefCardz is available from DZone on JPA development with EclipseLink:

http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/eclipselink-jpa

Thanks to Gordon Yorke for his hard work putting this together during the busy months leading up to the EclipseLink 2.3 (Indigo) release.

EclipseLink at Open World/Java One/Oracle Develop 2010

2010-09-20T06:32:00.000-07:00

The EclipseLink project will be well represented this year at Java One and Open World. If you are here attending the shows then I recommend you attend some of our sessions or drop by and visit us at the exhibition booths.

ID#: S314492
Title: Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 with EclipseLink
Date: 20-SEP-10
Time: 16:00-17:00
Hilton San Francisco, Golden Gate 4/5

ID#: S317452
Title: Advanced Enterprise Persistence
Date: 22-SEP-10
Time: 10:00-11:00
Hotel Nikko, Nikko Ballroom II

S314491: Effective XML: Leveraging JAXB and SDO
Date: 22-SEP-10
Time: 13:00-14:00
Hilton San Francisco, Yosemite A

S313434: Java Persistence API Futures BOF
Date: 22-SEP-10
Time: 14:15-15:15
Hilton San Francisco, Yosemite A

ID#: S318574
Title: Scaling JPA Applications with Oracle TopLink Grid and Oracle Coherence
Date: 22-SEP-10
Time: 16:45-17:45
Hilton San Francisco, Imperial Ballroom B

We also will be staffing exhibition booths on Oracle TopLink focusing on EclipseLink at the Oracle Fusion Middleware DEMOgrounds as well as helping staff the Oracle/Eclipse booth at the Java One exhibition hall and some time at the Eclipse Foundation booth.

We hope to meet as many EclipseLink users as possible and exchange ideas.

Doug

Using partial EclipseLink JPA entities with JAXB

2010-08-05T06:42:00.000-07:00

I spent much of the final months of the EclipseLink 2.1 (Helios) development championing the enhancements of our existing FetchGroup support to address additional uses cases around working with partial entities. The new functionality is referred to as AttributeGroup with support for FETCH (what columns get retrieved from the database), LOAD (what relationships are populated), COPY (what attributes and relationships and populated in detached copy), and MERGE (what attributes are merged from a detached partial entity). This additional support greatly simplifies application development where detached entities are used as well as providing additional performance tuning options and flexibility for other scenarios.

The purpose of this blog post is to help a user we were assisting on Twitter who wanted to use JAXB to marshal JPA entities into XML but only wanted a portion of the entities to be used. By default JAXB will traverse all available relationships including lazy ones that have not been loaded to build a complete XML document for the provided entities.

Here is a simple example reading a Customer with an Address (1:1) and PhoneNumber(s) (1:M) from a database and marshalling it into XML using EclipseLink JPA with EclipseLink MOXy.

Setup code for JPA and JAXB:

// JPA
EntityManagerFactory emf =
Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("CustomerService");
EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();

// JAXB
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Customer.class);
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT,
true);

Example: Find & Marshall Customer

Customer customer = em.find(Customer.class, 1);
marshaller.marshal(customer, System.out);

When executed this generates the following XML and causes the customer's address and phone numbers to be loaded from the database.
Now, if we wanted to generate a partial XML document including only the Customer's basic attributes and its address's attributes we could use a copy group to create a partial copy and marshal it:

Customer customer = em.find(Customer.class, (long) 1);

CopyGroup cg = new CopyGroup();
cg.addAttribute("id");
cg.addAttribute("firstName");
cg.addAttribute("lastName");
cg.addAttribute("address.id");
cg.addAttribute("address.city");
cg.addAttribute("address.street");

JpaEntityManger nativeEM = em.unwrap(JpaEntityManager.class);
Customer custCopy = (Customer) nativeEM .copy(customer, cg);

marshaller.marshal(custCopy , System.out);

Now the generated XML appears as:

There are other combined uses of AttributeGroup that can be used to control what is fetched and loaded as well but this copy example should illustrate some of the options available and how EclipseLink JPA and MOXy components can be easily used together.

Doug

Additional MOXy examples available here.

EclipseLink 2.1.0 Helios Release Now Available

2010-06-23T05:38:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the release of EclipseLink 2.1.0 (Helios). This release of brings a number of exciting features many of which were voted on, and chosen by the community.

Some of the JPA features included in this release are
- improved JPQL enhancements, and extensions including 'TREAT...AS' and 'FUNC'.
- Fetch, Load, Copy & Merge of partial entities using 'AttributeGroup'
- extentions to 'eclipselink-orm.xml'
- Dynamic Persistence: JPA without requiring Java classes.
- New Platforms: SAPNetWeaver Server Platform and Symfoware Database Platform
...and more...

Some of the MOXy features included in this release are
- JAXB 2.2.0 certified
- JAXB without annotations using externalized mappings in XML
- 'Dynamic Persistence': XML Binding without Java classes.
...and more...

Some of the SDO features included in this release are
- Support for EclipseLink SDO usage with 'WebSphere' and 'JBoss'
... and more...

Some of the DBWS features included in this release are
- Support DBWSBuilder-generated JAX-WS Provider on JRockit
- Support for Eclipse WTP Dynamic Web Project structure

2.1.0 also includes bug fixes that focus on performance, scalability, and stability. There were well over 300 bugs and enhancement requests closed for this release.

For a full list of features, and download instructions please see http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Release/2.1.0 .

We would like to thank everyone involved in the development of this release.

Peter Krogh and Douglas Clarke

EclipseLink Summit 2010 Wrap Up

2010-05-31T18:54:00.000-07:00

Last week we held our first EclipseLink Summit here in Ottawa with attendees from Canada, Germany, India, and the US. The principal goal of the summit was the exchange of technical information and ideas. We believe the event was a tremendous success!

We spent 2 days with committers leading technical sessions discussing areas from high level components and architecture to the detailed workings of EclipseLink's querying, caching, transactions, management, diagnostics, metadata processing, JPA 2.0 metamodel, and several other subsystems.

We would like to extend a big thank you to all of the committers who lead those sessions. The preparation time invested was obvious and the quality was amazing. We know it was tough to squeeze this additional work into your hectic pre-Helios schedules. The feedback from all attendees was excellent.

On the 3rd day of the Summit we focused more on the project itself. Starting with a talk from Jeff McAffer (EclipseSource) on OSGi and Eclipse RT technologies. We then discussed EclipseLink and OSGi, documentation, development process, build, testing and our road map planning.

While not all of these sessions allowed us to come to concrete conclusions the discussions were great and will hopefully carry on in our weekly committer meetings where we continue to improve our processes and refine our direction.

For those interested a more detailed summary of our Thursday sessions will be published to the eclipselink-dev@eclipse.org mailing list and topics requiring further discussion will be added to the weekly meeting agenda.

Thanks again to all the presenters and attendees. We are all looking forward to future EclipseLInk Summits where we can gather committers, contributors, and and users to share ideas and grow our community.

Your Summit Program Committee

Doug Clarke, Peter Krogh, and Shaun Smith

EclipseLink Summit 2010

2010-04-09T06:36:00.000-07:00

In an effort to increase the community of committers and contributors with in-depth knowledge of EclipseLink we have decided to host a 3-day Summit. The goal of this Summit will be to exchange detailed technical information and discuss future direction for the project and its persistence services.

All interested parties are welcome to participate.

More info on Summit is available here.

Doug

EclipseLink in Galileo: Persistence at your fingertips

2009-06-24T04:45:00.000-07:00

The Eclipse Galileo release signifies another important milestone for the EclipseLink project. The Galileo release makes EclipseLink 1.1.2 available and easier to use for the entire Eclipse community. Developers using the Java EE or Modeling Tools distributions of the Eclipse IDE will find EclipseLink included and available for use in Equinox OSGi, RCP, EMF, Java EE, and Java SE applications.

The EclipseLink 1.1.2 release includes a comprehensive set of persistence services:

EclipseLink JPA: Java Persistence API support for object-relational mapping with many advanced mapping, performance, and scalability features targeting Java EE, Java SE, and OSGi usage with Equinox specific extensions.
EclipseLink MOXy: Object-XML Binding (JAXB) support including advanced mappings, meet-in-the middle mapping without annotations, and pluggable parser support for optimal performance.
EclipseLink SDO: Service Data Objects 2.1.1 reference implementation including a Data Access solution for integrating JPA entities with SDO.
EclipseLink DBWS: Database Web Services solution enabling the generation of JAX-WS services based on relational metadata harnessing EclipseLink's JPA and MOXy capabilities.

EclipseLink for Java Developers

EclipseLink's inclusion in the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers combined with the extended support in WTP's Dali Java Persistence Tools project allows developers to start building JPA enabled applications quickly and easily. The Dali integration allows developers to optionally select EclipseLink as their JPA implementation and have it automatically added to their project classpath. This support along with Dali's rich validation and intelligent code assist provide a highly productive environment for developing, testing, packaging, and deploying JPA enabled applications.

EclipseLink for Modeling

The Eclipse Modeling Tools package of the Eclipse IDE includes the EclipseLink JPA feature and Teneo's EMF/EclipseLink integration. Teneo's EclipseLink support provides tools to generate JPA mappings from an EMF model or simply map their EMF models to a relational database. It also extends EclipseLink JPA with transparent runtime support for persisting EMF models. This out-of-the-box support for JPA persistence for EMF models will simplify the development of RCP and Equinox applications that leverage relational databases.

EclipseLink for RT

The EclipseLink project is also available as part of the Galileo update site under the EclipseRT Target Platform Components allowing developers to leverage P2 for provisioning of their Equinox (OSGi) environments. The provisioning allows developers to select the persistence services they require; JPA for object-relational, MOXy for Object-XML binding, or SDO for Service Data Object usage and have the necessary bundles downloaded and setup in their target platform environment.

Please download Galileo and try out the new EclipseLink capabilities. Provide us feedback on your experiences through our newsgroup.

The EclipseLink Team

SDO 2.1.1 (JSR-235) Releases with EclipseLink as the Reference Implementation

2009-04-07T08:06:00.001-07:00

I am happy to announce that SDO 2.1.1 (JSR-235) has been approved by the JCP, and EclipseLink SDO is the reference implementation.

EclipseLink Download
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/

Reference Implementation Download
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/ri.php

SDO is a generic structure to represent data from many sources such as XML and relational databases, most commonly associated with SCA.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/FAQ/WhatIsSDO

EclipseLink SDO was implemented as a thin layer on top of EclipseLink's object-to-XML layer (which is also the base for EclipseLink JAXB). EclipseLink SDO can be used alone, or as a means to expose POJOs as DataObjects so that components like EclipseLink JPA and JAXB can be used.

Accessing Relational Data as SDO DataObjects using JPA
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/SDO/JPA

Converting POJOs to/from SDO DataObjects using the POJO/SDO Bridge
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/SDO/JAXB

Thank you to all of the EclipseLink committers that contributed to the SDO component.

New EclipseLink Logo

2009-03-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

We have wrapped up our EclipseLink logo contest and we have a winner.

Thanks to everyone who submitted a logo, commented on the submissions, or voted for their favorite. You can see the image in use on the home page.

www.eclipse.org/eclipselink

Doug

EclipseLink 1.1.0 Released!

2009-03-12T12:15:00.000-07:00

I am happy to announce that EclipseLink 1.1.0 is now available for download.

There are some useful links off of the download page including a 'getting started page', and the 'release notes' for 1.1.0.

As well as bug fixes, 1.1.0 introduces feature enhancements in the following areas:

DBWS
The first release of EclipseLink DBWS allows developers to easily and efficiently expose database constructs (tables, SQL, stored procedures).

JPA
EclipseLink 1.1.0 JPA support is extended to introduce:

a new 1:M mapping that doesn't require a back pointer or a separate join table to hold the associations.

TABLE_PER_CLASS Inheritance has been added giving greater flexibility in how your relational tables associate with the classes in a hierarchy.

SDO
This release of EclipseLink includes an implementation of SDO 2.1.1 (JSR 235). This implementation conforms to the final draft and is being included with the final draft as the reference implementation.

Peter Krogh and Doug Clarke

EclipseLink at EclipseCon

2009-03-10T13:13:00.000-07:00

EclipseCon is fast approaching. It occurs between March 23 and March 26. There
are a number of sessions that would be of interest to EclipseLink users.

There is one tutorial:

Developing Java EE Web applications with JSF Facelets and JPA (Monday, March
23 @ 8 AM)

Four talks:

Preparing Java EE 6 development environment with Eclipse and GlassFish v3
(Tuesday, March 24 @ 10:10 AM)
Harnessing JPA 2.0 with Eclipse (Tuesday, March 24 @ 1:30 PM)
Building your first JPA application with Dali JPA Tools (Tuesday, March 24 @
4:30 PM)
Teneo--Integrating EMF & EclipseLink for Model-Driven Development with
Persistence (Thursday, March 26 @ 2:30 PM)

Two BOFs:

Pimp my Persistence (Tuesday, March 24 @ 7:30 PM)
Runtime Technology at Eclipse (Tuesday, March 24 @ 8:45 PM)

We hope to see you there.

EclipseLink Logo Contest

2009-03-04T11:15:00.000-08:00

We have just kicked off the EclipseLink Logo Contest to come up with an image we can use for the web, presentations, and other miscellaneous purposes. We are inviting all interested parties to both contribute ideas, provide feedback, and vote for their favorite.

We have had a variety of logos for TopLink over the years.

The first proposal is from one of our committers, Rick Sapir, connects us back to the original bridge between worlds logo. So far this is our only submission but definitely my favorite :)

All proposals will be posted to the contest page:

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/logocontest/

To submit a proposal, provide feedback, or vote please use the bug link provided on the contest page.

Doug

EclipseLink 1.0.2 Released

2008-10-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

A new EclipseLink release is now available for download. EclipseLink 1.0.2 is a patch release on the 1.0 stream, providing bug and usability fixes.

Please come and try it.

EclipseLink 1.0.1 Released

2008-09-09T18:29:00.000-07:00

A new EclipseLink release is now available for download. EclipseLink 1.0.1 is a patch release on the 1.0 stream, providing bug and usability fixes.

Come by and try it out now.

EclipseLink 1.0 Released

2008-07-09T12:29:00.000-07:00

The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release completes the transition of the persistence functionality developed in Oracle TopLink to being fully developed and maintained as an open source project at Eclipse. This also signifies the first release of a project under the recently created top-level Runtime (RT) project at Eclipse.

EclipseLink delivers persistence services for efficiently working with Java and relational, XML, and non-relational data sources. The highlights include:

· Compact: Standard Java distribution is composed of a single implementation jar and utility jars that can be used in any Java SE, IDE, or Java EE hosted environment.

· OSGi: EclipseLink is also available as a set of OSGi bundles. This distribution offers out of the box support for compliant OSGi implementations, as well as Equinox-specific extensions.

· JPA: Superior Java Persistence API 1.0 implementation with many advanced features offering greater flexibility and performance for mapping, caching, querying and transaction processing.

· MOXy: Object-XML binding support with JAXB, offering highly flexible mappings as well as a meet in the middle configuration approach.

· SDO: Service Data Objects 2.1 implementation enabling flexible service integration with dynamic and static models.

· Utils: Migration utilities to assist developers currently using Oracle TopLink or TopLink Essentials in their upgrade to EclipseLink as well as the workbench for compatibility with classic object-relational and object-XML mapping.

A complete index of features and the full user documentation for EclipseLink is available on the Eclipse wiki.

Standards Focused

The mandate of the EclipseLink project is to deliver a set of persistence services that leverage the leading Java standards. In addition, advanced features were added based on user requests but implemented in a way that allows developers to leverage them when needed but not be obstructed by them when they are not needed.

This is particularly true in JPA, where many advanced features are available through JPA persistence unit properties and query hints, in addition to custom annotations and XML. With EclipseLink replacing TopLink Essentials as the reference implementation for JPA 2.0, some of these advanced features will evolve into the specification defined metadata and interfaces. This approach of leading through delivery of advanced functionality, and then contributing back to the standards, is an important aspect of the EclipseLink project.

Growing The Community

The EclipseLink committers understand very well that developing in open source is much more than just providing access to the source code. Building a successful open source project is really about building an active community based on open communication and a transparent development process. We encourage the Java community to try out the 1.0 EclipseLink release and provide feedback. Your contributions and suggestions are valuable to us and will help ensure the project meets your current and future needs.

EclipseLink is currently available directly from the EclipseLink project web site and is also included within the GlassFish and Spring Framework distributions. Going forward, the Oracle TopLink product releases within the Oracle WebLogic Server will also include EclipseLink as its strategic persistence provider.

At present the project has committers from Oracle and Sun but we also have a growing community of users and developers contributing back enhancements. We are eager to expand this community on all fronts to establish the EclipseLink project as the leading persistence solution across Java EE, Java SE, and OSGi.

EclipseLink Graduates

2008-06-27T06:13:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, the EclipseLink project graduated from its incubation status, and was allowed to remove the egg from it's home page.

EclipseLink is on track for a release on July 9th. Mark your calendars, and come check it out.

Peter Krogh

EclipseLink 1.0M8 is available

2008-06-09T08:50:00.000-07:00

Hello,

We are pleased to announce that EclipseLink 1.0M8 is available for download. Please see the roadmap page for functionality that has been added since the M7 build: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Development/Release/1.0.

Download the milestone and try it out here - http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/index.php

We are currently targeting a 1.0 release in July, and moving to RC Milestones every two weeks in preparation for this release.

Peter Krogh

EclipseLink Webinar: May 1st

2008-04-24T07:00:00.000-07:00

The EclipseLink Webinar originally scheduled for April 24th (today) has been rescheduled to May 1st due to some technical issues. Please join us to discuss what EclipseLink is and gain a better understanding of many of the advanced features.

If you have any questions you would like to see addressed please post them in a comment here and I'll either address them in this session or provide the answers here.

Doug

Welcome to our new committer, Mitesh Meswani

2008-04-04T08:04:00.000-07:00

I want to welcome Mitesh Meswani of Sun Microsystems who has just joined the EclipseLink project as a committer.

Mitesh has been working with us on the EclispeLink code base since the beginnings of the Java Persistence API. Most recently, he has been helping us get our distribution to a state where it is easier for people using maven to consume. In the past he wrote our Derby/JavaDB support, added code to allow us to automically detect what database is being used, and provided a number of complex bug fixes.

Welcome Mitesh, we are excited to have you on board, and looking forward to more great contributions!

EclipseLink Day at Oracle Frankfurt

2008-03-26T06:33:00.000-07:00

If you're going, or thinking of going to Eclipse Forum Europe/JAX in Weisbaden in April or are within commuting distance to Frankfurt (which with German high speed trains means pretty much all of Western Europe), you might also be interested in a free EclipseLink Day event being organized by Oracle Germany. Peter Krogh and I will be speaking about EclipseLink--where it came from, what it can do, how to use it, and where it's going. Basically, everything you wanted to know about EclipseLink but were afraid to ask!

The number of attendees is limited so register asap using the link on the invitation.

See you there!

--Shaun

EclipseLink to provide JPA 2.0 Reference Implementation

2008-03-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

We are very happy to announce that the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) specification will have its reference implementation provided by EclipseLink. This is a natural extension of our work started with TopLink Essentials in GlassFish where we delivered the reference implementation for JPA 1.0.

The feedback received on TopLink Essentials from the community has been enthusiastic. To date it’s been distributed within the GlassFish, SunAS, OracleAS, JEUS (TmaxSoft) application servers as well as being included in the Spring Framework. This has put TopLink Essentials into many developer's hands and has lead to many requests for advanced functionality--functionality that was already provided in Oracle TopLink.

With the contribution of the full functionality of Oracle TopLink into EclipseLink and its selection as the JSR 317 reference implementation included with GlassFish, we can address these feature requests from our broad community.

For more information on this release and related materials:

As always we appreciate your feedback,

The EclipseLink Team

P.S. We will be at JavaOne where you can learn more about EclipseLink and GlassFish. We have an interesting session discussing how you can use EclipseLink with NetBeans (TS-5400: Developing Java™ Persistence API Applications with the NetBeans™ IDE and EclipseLink)

EclipseLink at EclipseCon 2008

2008-03-16T14:24:00.000-07:00

For those of you coming to EclipseCon this week in Santa Clara we are involved in several talks concerning the EclipseLink Project.

Tutorial: Eclipse Web Tools Platform – Uncovered: Java Persistence Development with Dali and EclipseLink

Session: Eclipse JPA

Short Talk: Model Driven Development with EMF and EclipseLink
BOF: Eclipse Persistence Services (EclipseLink) BoF

For those of you interested in JPA tooling you may want to check out the following Dali talks as well:

Please drop by and see us at one of the above sessions or at our exhibition hall booth. We are really looking forward to connecting with many of you at our first project BOF!

Doug & Shaun

Spring 2.5.2 Ships EclipseLink 1.0M4

2008-03-04T07:34:00.001-08:00

I knew it was coming but I was happy to see the announcement anyway! The Spring 2.5.2 release has shipped with EclipseLink 1.0M4 incubation build and includes specific support for using EclipseLink JPA (EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter, EclipseLinkJpaDialect). We'll continue to work with the Spring team to bring full support for EclipseLink in Spring as we work towards our 1.0 Release in June of this year.

More than JPA

Although Spring has specific support for EclipseLink JPA, you can also use EclipseLink MOXy with Spring Web Services and Remoting as a JAXB provider for XML message transformation. It doesn't require any special classes--it's all just configuration in your Spring application context XML. As I type this I find myself thinking "where is the how-to for that?" and I guess I'm on the hook now. Look out for a follow up on using EclipseLink MOXy with Spring!

--Shaun

EclipseLink at Eclipse Forum Europe/JAX Conference

2008-02-06T06:42:00.000-08:00

If you're planning on attending Eclipse Forum Europe 2008 held in conjunction with the JAX conference you might want to check out a couple of EclipseLink sessions.

Eclipse Forum Europe April 21-25, Wiesbaden, Germany

Eclipse JPA: EclipseLink and Dali: Shaun Smith, Peter Krogh

Developing with JPA and JAXB: Shaun Smith, Peter Krogh

2008-01-29T12:42:00.000-08:00

If you're interested in learning more about EclipseLink and JPA there are a few related sessions and tutorials coming up at EclipseCon 2008.

Eclipse JPA

Doug Clarke, Gordon Yorke Data Tooling · Long Talk Thursday, 10:10, 50 minutes | Room 207

Eclipse Web Tools Platform – Uncovered: Java Persistence Development with Dali and EclipseLink

Neil Hauge, Tom Ware
Web Tools · Tutorial
Monday, 13:30, 2 hours | Room 209

Dali JPA Tools--Everything You Need to Get Started in 10 Minutes or Less

Neil Hauge, Shaun Smith
Web Tools · Short Talk
Tuesday, 13:50, 10 minutes | Room 203/204

Hope to see you there! --Shaun

EclipseLink 1.0M2 is available

2007-12-05T14:00:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce that EclipseLink 1.0M2 is available for download.

Please see the roadmap page for functionality that has been added since the M1 build: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Development/Release/1.0.

Please download the milestone and try it out - http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/

Peter Krogh

1.0 Milestone 1 Now Available

2007-11-07T06:06:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce that EclipseLink 1.0M1 is available for download.

This is our first milestone as we work toward a 1.0 release. The current functionality and related materials produced for this milestone are available here.

This milestone is feature-rich with our native object-relational and object-XML support . Complete support for JPA 1.0 (with many important extensions) and almost complete JAXB 2.0 and SDO 2.1.

For those Oracle TopLink customers wishing to try out EclipseLink we have published an example to assist. Additional examples are available here.

Please download the milestone and try it out we are eager to get feedback.

Doug Clarke

Upcoming EclipseLink Conference Sessions

2007-09-24T19:24:00.000-07:00

If you're interested in learning more about EclipseLink there are a couple of opportunities coming up.

At Eclipse Summit Europe 2007, Shaun Smith is presenting "Introducing EclipseLink--The Eclipse Persistence Services Project".

At EclipseWorld 2007 in Reston, Virginia Peter Krogh and Doug Clarke will be presenting "Eclipse Java Persistence (EclipseLink) Platform: The Full Monty".

And Doug will be presenting "Eclipse MOXy: Freedom Through XML Binding".

Hope to see you there!

--Shaun

EclipseLink Update: Source checked in

2007-08-15T08:32:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce that under the Eclipse parallel IP review process we have checked the initial source contribution (Oracle TopLink) into the Eclipse SVN repository.

The EclipseLink committers are now busy resolving some open issues related to the switch to ANTR 3.0 and the default XML parser. When these issues are resolved and our build process fine tuned we'll produce a 0.1-incubation distribution for early adopters to work with. We expect this to be accomplished within next couple of weeks.

If you have any questions about EclipseLink functionality please send them to eclipselink-dev@eclipse.org

Doug Clarke & Peter Krogh
Project co-leads

Creation Review Scheduled

2007-05-27T09:23:00.000-07:00

We have been very busy within the TopLink engineering team and in discussions with other organizations and individuals who have expressed an interest in the proposed EclipseLink project at Eclipse. The creation review has been scheduled for this coming Wednesday (May 30th) @ 1500 UTC.

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/

Creation Review Slides

Review Comments

We are looking forward to our initial code contribution and working with the community on the evolution of this project.

Doug