Author: ppoddar
Date: Sun Dec 7 17:55:36 2014
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+2014-Dec
+Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project
+
+ == Summary ==
+ Apache OpenJPA is a persistent object management kernel for relational and
non-relational
+ databases. For relational database, OpenJPA provides persistence for Plain
Old Java Object (POJO).
+ OpenJPA is compliant to industry-standard Java Persistence Architecture
(JPA) version 2.0
+ version and runs in stand-alone JSE as well as JEE containers and many
other lightweight frameworks,
+ such as Tomcat, TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
+
+
+ == Community ==
+ OpenJPA developers had, over past several years, not only developed a
general-purpose,
+ stable software for complex Object-Relational Mapping but also ensured its
stability
+ across many released versions.
+
+ However, developer resource is shrinking as many senior committers are not
active and
+ new volunteers are hard to come by as new development opportunities are
rare and hard
+ to incorporate. Also lack of strong corporate interest/sponsorship is
affecting future
+ growth/expansion of the community.
+
+ PMC members are exploring how to invigorate the project.
+
+ We hope that the Board members may be able to share their experience on how
to re-energize
+ a matured project in its maintenance phase of life.
+
+
+ == Recent Work ==
+ OpenJPA development team member Jody Grassel has upgraded Serp bytecode
library
+ to version 1.15 for Java 8 language features (e.g. lambda expression) and
integrated
+ OpenJPA with the upgrade.
+ As OpenJPA natively uses bytecode enhancement, supporting Java 8 has more
than usual impact on OpenJPA.
+
+ Many requests have been received for upgrade to JPA 2.1 compliance.
Prototype work for supporting
+ JPA 2.1 features such as Store Procedure support has started.
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