Apache Cayenne is an open source persistence framework providing object-relational mapping (ORM) and remoting services.
Development Work on 3.0.3 (STABLE) and 3.1 (ALPHA) releases continue. Artifacts for 3.1 Milestone 3 prepared and awaiting vote for release. This release was delayed by changing the build/release procedures to be more Maven-centric. Google Summer of Code: Ksenia Khailenko was mentoring Eshan Sudharaka on adding Cayenne Modeler support into Eclipse. The project was completed successfully and will now be evolving further within the project. DocBook migration of the project documentation (currently in Confluence) is beginning. We are happy with the toolset so far. Output to html and pdf already working, which is an improvement on Confluence. Web site Unfinished items from Branding Requirements: Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included -> Needs work. Consider how to rearrange navigation to avoid confusion between links which leave the Cayenne site and those which don't. Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site -> OK, other than 'tm' symbols Further work on the website styling on hold pending our evaluation of Apache CMS as a replacement for Confluence (for the pages which aren't product documentation). Community Dzmitry Kazimirchyk added as a committer. Mailing list activity is above average on developer and user lists. The user list has seen a spike of questions from newcomers to Cayenne and several of the questions led to wide-ranging discussions. Many users are also starting to use the 3.1 milestone and asking questions about configuration which aren't well documented yet.
