On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:14:52 +0200, Guttmann Werner MAX SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> one of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been missing support > for polymorphism. After the 0.9.6 release back in Februray, which mainly > focused on bug fixing, we decided to tackle this missing feature and start > work for adding support for > polymorphism to Castor JDO. For a complete history of the work done so far > and the tests conducted, please have a look at > http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1881. > > As of last week, most of the work (originally initiated by myself) has been > finished, and we are now in a position where we'd like to ask you, our users, > for feedback. In other words, we think that the current implementation is > stable enough to make it available as described below. But as we want to get > this new feature as stable as possible before heading for a new release (mots > likely 0.9.7, but maybe 1.0), we now need feedback from our users. > > To be able to use Castor with support for polymorphism and to run the tests > packaged with the bug report, you will have to checkout a fresh copy of > castor from CVS, and apply the following patches: > > Patch castor to add polymorphism support > http://bugzilla.exolab.org/attachment.cgi?id=975&action=view > > Patch CTF-JDO to fix problems with old tests > http://bugzilla.exolab.org/attachment.cgi?id=977&action=view > > Patch with examples and tests related to polymorphism > http://bugzilla.exolab.org/attachment.cgi?id=980&action=view > > If there's sufficient interest, I can in addition offer to make a binary > distribution available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/. Werner, For convenience, could you prepare a jar containing these patches and make it available for users to simply download and drop it in? Maybe it could be named something like castor-0.9.6-bug1881patches.jar, no? Just a thought. Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)[EMAIL PROTECTED]&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' The Castor Project http://www.castor.org/ Apache Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org/
