Hi, There have been several discussions on the OpenJPA forums [1, 2, ...] about the support for JPA 2.1... Instead of just talking about it, let's see if we can get this development effort kick-started. As you'll see, this will be a major effort and we'll need help from more than just the core OpenJPA team. We'll need help for development, test, documentation, evangelism, etc.
To get started, I created some JPA 2.1 pages on the OpenJPA wiki. Some of the pages still need some work, but I wanted to get something out before JavaOne in order to generate some interest... JPA 2.1 Tasks: http://openjpa.apache.org/jpa-2.1-tasks.html Main Roadmap: http://openjpa.apache.org/jpa-2.1-roadmap.html You'll notice there are a few preliminary items that will need to be done before JPA 2.1 development can be performed in trunk. One of the main items is to create an OpenJPA 2.3.0 release (along with the associated service stream). I've heard from Mark that he might be interested in this activity. Once that is done, then we can start some of the other preliminary development activities in trunk (java 7, jpa 2.1 interfaces, tck setup, etc). The rest of the tasks identified were compiled with some help from Pinaki. Pinaki had started to experiment with JPA 2.1 in a sandbox. Another investigative piece of work is to evaluate that sandbox and pull in the appropriate pieces to trunk. If you are looking for general information on the JPA 2.1 features, here are a couple of references. JPA 2.1 Specification: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=338 JPA 2.1 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgzNT7p7wA That's enough for this first note. Take a look at the material. Offer suggestions, improvements, and ideas. Most of all, offer up some time and effort to help upgrade OpenJPA to the next JPA 2.1 specification level. Thanks, Kevin [1] http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/DISCUSSION-JPA-2-1-spec-implementation-tp7581978.html [2] http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/OpenJPA-support-for-JPA-2-1-when-tp7584157.html
