JPA 2.0 Roadmap

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JPA 2.0 Road Map

Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0 is being developed in trunk and will be a JPA 2.0 certified release of the JSR-317 specification.

Development Process

The process that OpenJPA will be following for developing JPA 2.0 functionality is documented here. The specific roadmap and iteration details will be documented on this Roadmap page.

Test Coverage

For a list of databases being tested and current status, checkout the JPA 2.0 Test Coverage page.

Presentations

Take a look at the JPA 2.0 Presentations page for more details on the major new features of the JPA 2.0 specification and how they are being implemented in OpenJPA.

Iteration Schedule and Content

Milestone 1
- Iteration 1 (Dec. 1, 2008 - Dec. 19, 2008) - OPENJPA-800
- Iteration 1a (Dec. 22, 2008 - Jan. 2, 2009) - OPENJPA-831
- Iteration 2 (Jan. 5, 2009 - Jan. 23, 2009) - OPENJPA-807
Milestone 2
- Iteration 3 (Jan. 26, 2009 - Feb. 13, 2009) - OPENJPA-808
- Iteration 4 (Feb. 16, 2009 - Mar. 6, 2009) - OPENJPA-875
- Iteration 5 (Mar. 9, 2009 - Apr. 3, 2009) - OPENJPA-956
- Iteration 6 (Apr. 6, 2009 - May 1, 2009) - OPENJPA-1007
- Iteration 7 (May 4, 2009 - May 29, 2009) - OPENJPA-1052
Milestone 3
- Iteration 8 (June 1, 2009 - July 3, 2009) - OPENJPA-1105
- Iteration 9 (July 6, 2009 - July 31, 2009) - OPENJPA-1152
- Iteration 10 (Aug. 3, 2009 - Aug. 28, 2009) - OPENJPA-1209
- Iteration 11 (Aug. 31, 2009 - Oct. 2, 2009) - OPENJPA-1268
Milestone 4
- Iteration 12 (Oct. 5, 2009 - Oct. 30, 2009) - OPENJPA-1337
- Iteration 13 (Nov. 2, 2009 - Dec. 4, 2009) - OPENJPA-1373
- Iteration 14 (Dec. 7, 2009 - Dec. 28, 2009)
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Milestone 1

The Milestone 1 release was never "officially" released, due to the JSR-317 terms of use issues, but the files were tagged in svn and can be checked out using:

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/branches/2.0.0-M1/

Iteration 1 Summary - OPENJPA-800

With the completion of iteration 1, OpenJPA includes many new JPA 2.0 (based on the 10/31/2008 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

The current level of JPA 2.0 API. You can compile against and use implemented methods of the new API. Unimplemented methods will throw an UnsupportedOperationException.
Validation using the current JPA 2.0 orm and persistence schemas. Version 2.0 persistence and orm files will validate using these new schemas. Metadata elements provided in iteration 1 (collection-table and element-collection) will validate and can be specified in XML.
Support for nested embeddables. An embeddable can now be nested within another embeddable.
Support for relationships within embeddables. Embeddables can now contain relationships.
Collections of embeddables and basic types through the use of ElementCollection and CollectionTable. Element collections and collection tables can be specified using annotations or in a version 2.0 orm XML.
Support for the Criteria API based on the current spec level, including the new constructs; KEY(), VALUE(), and CASE(). OpenJPA also includes the ability to convert queries constructed with the Criteria API to JPQL.
Support for JPA 2.0 JPQL. Compilation of JPA 2.0 JPQL statements and execution of the new JPQL expressions including simple case expressions, general case expressions, coalesce, and the nullif expression. In addition, the select expression allows mathematical operations and the result alias can be specified in the select expression and in the ORDER BY clause. Execution of additional JPA 2.0 JPQL expressions will be added in future iterations.
Native sequence generators allow the database schema name to be specified on the annotation or in a version 2.0 orm XML.

Iteration 1a Summary - OPENJPA-831

With the completion of the 1a iteration, the OpenJPA documentation has been updated to contain the most current JPA 2.0 schemas.

Iteration 2 Summary - OPENJPA-807

With the completion of iteration 2, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 (based on the 10/31/2008 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Support for the JPA 2.0 level 2 cache interface. Operations on the OpenJPA data cache are now available from the entity manager factory through a standard JPA interface.
Support for use of order column through a JPA annotations or orm mapping file elements. Existing OpenJPA support for order columns has been extended to support the JPA standard OrderColumn definition. This iteration supports a configurable base value attribue. Support for the table and contiguous attributes will be provided in future iterations.
Enhanced map support. The use of Map collections has been significantly enhanced. This iteration includes use of the new MapKeyClass, MapKeyColumn, MapKeyJoinColumn, and MapKeyJoinColumns annotations and corresponding orm mapping file elements.
Support for JPQL INDEX() function within a query projection or predicate. Allows the index of ordered columns to be projected or used as part of a query predicate. Projection is currently not supported for element collection. This support will be added in a future iteration.
Support for entity TYPE() expression. Allows projection of or query criteria based on entity type. OpenJPA does not currently allow selection of an abstract entity type.
Support for new javax.persistence standard properties. Standard properties such as javax.persistence.jdbc.driver can now be specified as configuration properties.

Milestone 2

The Milestone 2 release will not be an official ASF release, but will be created as a Early Access 2 SNAPSHOT branch due to the JSR-317 terms of use restrictions. A distribution of the Early Access 2 SNAPSHOT is available here for download or the code can be checked out from svn.

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Iteration 3 Summary - OPENJPA-808

With the completion of iteration 3, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 (based on the 10/31/2008 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Support for collection-valued parameters in JPQL using the IN expression. A collection-valued parameter (List, Set, etc.) may now be used in conjunction with the IN expression within the where clause of a JPQL statement.

JPA specification level is available through OpenJPA configuration. The JPA specification level of the provider can now be retrieved via the openjpa.Specification property.

Support for derived identities including the use of MappedById. OpenJPA now supports entities which have an identity that is derived from the id of another identity for one-to-one and many-to-one relationships with a parent-dependent type association.

Support for getSupportedProperties and getProperties methods on the EntityManager and EntityManagerFactory. The active properties and their values, in addition to the full set of supported properties can be retrieved for the EntityManager and EntityManagerFactory.

The OrderColumn annotation and equivalent XML now allows the specification of the table element. The table element can be used to specify the join or collection table used to maintain the relationship.

Support for getHints and getSupportedHints on Query. The active hints and their values, in addition to supported hints can be retrieved for a Query.

Iteration 4 Summary - OPENJPA-875

With the completion of iteration 4, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 (based on the 10/31/2008 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Support new JPA LockModeType in find, lock and refresh methods in the EntityManager interface. A new "mixed" lock manager is introduced implementing the new mixed optimistic and pessimistic entity locking semantics.

AttributeOverride enhanced to allow navigation of multiple levels of embeddables, use with map keys and values, and use with element collections.

AssociationOverride enhanced to support specification of of a join table and override of embeddables within relationships.

Additional support of derived identities.

Support for general and qualified identification variables in JQPL selections. KEY, ENTRY, and VALUE qualifiers
can now be used within the SELECT clause.

Iteration 5 Summary - OPENJPA-956

With the completion of iteration 5, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 (based on the 03/13/2009 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Updated spec APIs and schemas based upon most current specification draft. New, unimplemented methods will throw an UnsupportedOperationException.
A lock timeout hint value can now be specified on applicable entity manager and query methods.
Lock mode (including the new pessimistic lock modes) can be specified on query methods and named queries. This allows for fine-grained locking configuration at the method level.
The unwrap method can be used to get access to underlying OpenJPA entity manager and query interfaces.
JPQL queries support the selection of KEY, VALUE, and ENTRY map values.
Single entities or an entity graph may be detached from the entity manager. Specifying the new cascade type of DETACH or ALL on relationships allows selective detachment of an entity graph.
The third argument of the JPQL SUBSTRING function is now optional.
JPQL queries have been enhanced to support the projection of element collections.
JPQL queries have been enhanced to support nested embeddables and relationships from embeddables.

Iteration 6 Summary - OPENJPA-1007

With the completion of iteration 6, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 (based on the 03/13/2009 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Query timeout detection for additional databases. Query timeouts are more accurately detected and reported in DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and Informix.

Support for scalar expressions in JPQL subqueries. Scalar expressions such as substring can now be used within a subquery.

Support for explicit access types on persistent types. The persistence access method to use can now be specified on a per-type and field/method level.

Updates to OrderColumn and EntityManager methods to match new spec draft.

JPQL queries now support key/value paths as arguments to scalar functions. KEY() and VALUE() can now be used to indicate that a map key or value should be used as an argument to a scalar function.

Iteration 7 Summary - OPENJPA-1052

With the completion of iteration 7, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 (based on the 03/13/2009 spec draft) features. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

New MapKeyEnumerated and MapKeyTemporal annotations and equivalent XML elements for tagging the key of a map collection as either an enumerated or temporal type.
Base support for JSR-303 Bean Validation including basic configuration and lifecycle-based event validation.
Support the use of delimited identifiers within annotation attributes for a subset of mapping annotations when using the Derby and DB2 databases. Support for additional databases will be added in future iterations.
JPQL subqueries now support derived path expressions and the use of KEY() on map collections.
OSGI bundle metadata has been added to the OpenJPA jar. This simplifies the use of OpenJPA in an OSGi environment such as Apache Felix.
OrderBy no longer requires name attribute when applied to a collection of basic type.

Milestone 3

The Milestone 3 release is an official ASF release, but we encourage you to upgrade to the final 2.0.0 as soon as possible after it is released. A distribution of the Milestone 3 is available here for download or the code can be checked out from svn.

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Iteration 8 Summary - OPENJPA-1105

With the completion of iteration 8, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Sub-project for JSR-303 (Bean Validation) testing with configurable bean validation providers.
Automatic detection of bean validation providers.
Support for bean validation groups, configurable through standard persistence.xml properties.
Bug fixes for attribute-overrides and embeddable processing.
Performance enhancements to class reflection utility. Provides 17% performance gain in some benchmarks.

Iteration 9 Summary - OPENJPA-1152

With the completion of iteration 9, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Bean Validation support for validation groups. Specific validation groups can be targeted for lifecycle events.
A TraversableResolver is now registered with the bean validator. The resolver ensures that only loaded attributes are validated.
A PersistenceProviderResolver and PersistenceProviderResolverHolder are available from the Geronimo Spec API. PersistenceProviderResolver can be used to return the list of persistence providers available in the runtime environment.
Availablility of ProviderUtil and PersistenceUnitUtil interfaces. These interfaces provide methods to determine the load state of a persistent entity or attribute. In addition, PersistenceUnitUtil can be used to get the identifier of an entity.
Significant improvements to OpenJPA's subquery processing.
OpenJPA now includes the ability to use a pluggable encryption provider. This provider can be used to support encrypted database passwords in the persistence.xml. See the Encryption Provider chapter in the documentation for more details.

Iteration 10 Summary - OPENJPA-1209

With the completion of iteration 10, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Support for the Criteria and Metamodel API. The Criteria and Metamodel API can be used in conjunction to create and execute strongly-typed programmatic queries.
Metamodel source file generation. OpenJPA provides tooling to generate metamodel source classes.
Support for the TypedQuery and Tuple interfaces. These interfaces are provided to manipulate typed queries and their results.
Automatic setting of compatibility options based upon persistence version. Compatibility options are configured based on persistence version to provide backward compatibility for OpenJPA version 1.x applications.
Support for naming of unique constraints.
Lob, Temporal, and Enumeration can now be specified on element collections.
JPQL now supports multiple constructors in the query projection list.
Support for the shared-cache-mode element in the persistence.xml. Provides configuration/enablement options for L2 cache.
Support for Cacheable annotation and CacheStoreMode/CacheRetriveMode properties. Allows per class configuration of L2 cacheing and per-operation tuning of cache behavior.
Database updates including updates for Derby reserved words, usage of a new version of commons-pool and commons-dbcp, and a new Derby network server test profile.
Support for JDBC date, time, and timestamp literals within JPQL and Criteria queries.

Iteration 11 Summary - OPENJPA-1268

With the completion of iteration 11, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

OpenJPA is based upon Proposed Final Draft 2 of JSR-317.
Support for cascading detach using cascade-detach as specified in the orm.xml.
Assertion that relationships in MappedSuperclass are unidirectional.
OpenJPA was updated to the CR5 level of the bean validation specification.
A new code sample which showcases the use of embeddables.
Corrected an XML encoding issue which occurred when using XML data with SQL Server.
Many documentation updates.
Improved test coverage for many database platforms. The current test matrix is available here.

Milestone 4

Iteration 12 Summary - OPENJPA-1337

With the completion of iteration 12, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features
and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

Continued improvements to test coverage for additional databases.
Many documentation updates, notably for Criteria API and Metamodel tooling.

Iteration 13 Summary - OPENJPA-1373

OpenJPA 2.0 Tasks

JPA 2.0 Spec Features

Status	JIRA(s)	Effort	Summary	Area	JPA 2.0 Spec Reference(s)
In Progress	OPENJPA-962 OPENJPA-1115	Medium	New database object naming conventions (delimited-identifiers)	General	2.13, 12.2.1.13, 12.3
In Progress	OPENJPA-1306	Medium	Added new javax.persistence.lock.scope property	Locking	3.4.3
In Progress	OPENJPA-1358	Low	Added find method that accepts properties (no lock mode)	EM	3.1.1
In Progress	OPENJPA-1358	Low	New refresh method that accepts properties (no lock mode)	EM	3.1.1
In Progress	OPENJPA-1358	Low	Verify cache mode properties support on find, refresh and Query	Cache	3.7.2
Complete	OPENJPA-1253	Medium	Review @JoinColumn elements for behavioral changes	Mapping	11.1.21
Complete	OPENJPA-1306	Medium	Review clarifications to locking modes	Locking	3.4.3
Complete		Low	Review chapter on deployment and bootstrapping contracts for updates.	General	Ch 9
Complete	OPENJPA-1270	Low	Assert that relationships defined in a mapped superclass must be unidirectional.	General	2.11.2
Complete	Spec updated	TBD	New JPQL reserved identifiers.	JPQL	4.4.1
Complete	OPENJPA-1069	Low	Review @OrderBy for behavioral changes	Mapping	11.1.38
Complete	OPENJPA-1274	Low	Test CascadeType.DETACH via orm.xml	Testing	12.3
Complete	Routine JPQL BNF update	Low	Updated single_valued_path_expression definition	JPQL	4.4.4
Complete	Routine JPQL BNF update	Low	New JPQL reserved identifiers should not be used as result variables	JPQL	4.4.1
Complete	OPENJPA-1272	Low	attribute-override and association-override available from element-collection XML schema type	Mapping	12.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1271	Medium	Support for CacheRetrieveMode and CacheStoreMode properties.	Cache	3.7.2
Complete	OPENJPA-1264	Low	Cacheable attribute added to entity element in orm.xml	Cache	12.2.3.3, 12.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1264	Medium	Cacheable annotation	Cache	3.7, 11.1.7
Complete	OPENJPA-1266	Low	Support for JDBC escape sequence for date/time literals (6/19 rev)	JPQL	4.6.1
Complete	OPENJPA-1240	Low	Allow Lob, Temporal, Enumerated annotations to be applied to element collections annotations and in XML.	Mapping	11.1.16, 11.1.24, 11.1.47
Complete	OPENJPA-1264	Low	Cache mode elements added to persistence.xml	Cache	3.7.1, 3.7.2, 8.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1228	Low	Default value change of exclude-unlisted-classes element	General	8.2.1.6.1 (7/23)
Complete	OPENJPA-1251	Low	EntityManagerFactory getProperties returns Map of <String, Object>	EMF	7.4
Complete	OPENJPA-1251	Medium	Added setProperty method	EM	3.1.1
Complete	OPENJPA-1013	High	Build strictly-typed Criteria API	Criteria	Ch 6
Complete	OPENJPA-1014	High	Build weakly-typed Criteria API	Criteria	Ch 6
Complete	OPENJPA-1180	High	Added getParameters, getParameterValue, getParameter methods to Query interface	Typed Parameters	3.8.1, 3.8.5
Complete	OPENJPA-1009	High	Populate canonical meta-model for strictly typed Criteria Query building	Metamodel	Ch 5
Complete	OPENJPA-1010	High	Instantiate meta-model classes for JPA 2.0 from source code annotations	Metamodel	Ch 5
Complete	OPENJPA-1008	High	Generate meta-model for JPA 2.0	Metamodel	Ch 5
Complete	OPENJPA-1235	Low	Optional name element to UniqueConstraint annotation and corresponding XML type.	Mapping	11.1.49, 12.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1107	Medium	Provide TraversableResolver for use with Bean Validation Factory	Spec API	3.6.1.2
Complete	OPENJPA-1013	Low	Modified getQueryBuilder to return updated criteria query builder	EMF, Criteria	7.4
Complete	OPENJPA-1010	Low	New getMetamodel method	EMF, Metamodel	7.4
Complete	OPENJPA-1191	High	Implement Typed Query interface	Typed Query	3.8.1, 3.8.5
Complete	OPENJPA-1191	High	Implement Tuple interface	Typed Query	3.8.1, 3.8.5
Complete	OPENJPA-1068	High	Support Bean Validation: Entity validation upon lifecycle events.	Bean Validation	3.6, 3.2.9
Complete	OPENJPA-1082	Low	Validation target groups via persistence.xml or createEMF properties Map	Bean Validation	3.6.1.2, 8.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1013	Low	Modified createQuery to accept updated criteria query definition	EM, Criteria	3.1.1
Complete	OPENJPA-1013	Low	Modified getQueryBuilder to return updated criteria query builder	EM, Criteria	3.1.1.
Complete	OPENJPA-805 OPENJPA-855 OPENJPA-856 OPENJPA-865 OPENJPA-879 OPENJPA-961 OPENJPA-967 OPENJPA-978 OPENJPA-1035 OPENJPA-1024 OPENJPA-1016	High	JPQL Updates	JPQL	Ch. 4
Complete	OPENJPA-995	High	Migrate existing Criteria Query implementation as OpenJPA extension	Criteria	Ch 6
Complete	OPENJPA-1069	Medium	OrderBy annotation applied to an element collection of basic type doesn't require property or field name	Mapping	11.1.38
Complete	OPENJPA-1055	Medium	Added MapKeyEnumerated and MapKeyTemporal annotations and XML.	Mapping	11.1.30, 11.1.33, 12.3
Complete	OPENJPA-937	Medium	Allow use of AssociationOverrides with mapped superclass relationships.	Mapping	11.1.2
Complete	OPENJPA-878 OPENJPA-963 OPENJPA-964	Medium	Support default query hint for query timeout	EM, Query	3.8.8
Complete	OPENJPA-926	Medium	Support persistent access types including @Access annotation and AccessType enum and XML	General	2.3, 11.1.1, 12.2.1.4, 12.2.2.4, 12.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1034	Low	Remove contiguous and base elements from OrderColumn annotation	Mapping	11.1.39
Complete	OPENJPA-1032	Low	Removal and revert behavior of getNamedParameters and getPositionalParameters	Query	3.8.1
Complete	OPENJPA-1013	Low	Added getMetamodel method	EM, Metamodel	3.1.1
Complete	OPENJPA-773	Low	Renamed clear method to detach	EM	3.1.1
Complete	OPENJPA-773	Low	Changed target-entity attribute to target-class in element-collection	Mapping	12.3
Complete	OPENJPA-773	Low	Update pessimistic lock mode names	Locking	3.4.4
Complete	OPENJPA-878	Low	Timeouts are in milliseconds.	Query, Locking	3.8.8, 3.4.4.3
Complete	OPENJPA-773	Low	Renamed cascade CLEAR to DETACH	EM	3.1.1, 3.2.6
Complete	OPENJPA-1077	Low	Validation-mode element support added to persistence.xml and to createEMF properties Map	Bean Validation	3.6.1.1, 8.3
Complete	OPENJPA-1102	Low	Support application/container provided ValidatorFactory	Bean Validation	3.6.2
Complete	OPENJPA-1076	Medium	PersistenceProviderResolver interface and PersistenceProviderResolverHolder class	Spec API	9.3

Task list for JSR-317 10/31/2008 public draft

Other Improvements

Status	JIRA	Summary
Not Started	OPENJPA-1011	Instantiate meta-model classes for JPA 2.0 from XML descriptors
Complete	OPENJPA-766	Tests that currently fail should be committed to the repository
Complete	OPENJPA-5	Allow compilation with JDK 6
Complete	OPENJPA-1114	Bean Validation APIs should be an optional runtime dependency
Complete	OPENJPA-1113	Reflection class performance improvement

General Tasks

Status	JIRA	Summary
Not Started	OPENJPA-837	OpenJPA does not fully support database catalogs
Not Started	OPENJPA-910	Allow multiple keys for the same property to be specified at different levels
Ongoing	OPENJPA-773	Upgrade to JPA 2 - umbrella task - includes updating spec API
In Progress	OPENJPA-757	Map existing OpenJPA extensions to new features of JPA 2.0
Complete	OPENJPA-857 OPENJPA-1208	Detect and store JPA version
Not Started	OPENJPA-1103	Remove early-access disclaimer from the NOTICE files once the spec is released

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