Hi Ron, WebSphere continues to support their JPA solutions via improvements to the corresponding OpenJPA offerings. The OSGi/JPA 2.0 Feature Pack is based on the OpenJPA 2.0.x service stream. WebSphere's v8 solution is based on the OpenJPA 2.1.x service stream.
If issues are discovered in any of these environments, then an appropriate fix is developed for the Apache OpenJPA service stream and that is ultimately pulled into an iFix or fixpack for the WebSphere product. An issue that is discovered in WAS v8, for example, can normally be back-ported to previous releases, such as the OSGi/JPA 2.0 Feature Pack (as it applies). New features for one release (ie. WebSphere v8) are not normally candidates for back-porting to previous releases (ie. OSGi/JPA 2.0 Feature Pack). Hope this helps, Kevin On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Ron Grabowski <rongrabow...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I couldn't find anything on the OpenJPA or IBM WAS website(s) about > how/if/when IBM decides to package OpenJPA improvements into future feature > packs. Does anyone know if a future WAS7 feature pack will include OpenJPA > 2.1.x? Along those same lines, is WAS8's JPA implementation based on > OpenJPA 2.1.x?
