The second release towards JPA 2 support. Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-1 include:
- Initial implementation of criteria query compiling and execution
- Better metamodel API coverage, including StaticMetamodel support in conjunction with the Hibernate StaticMetamodel Generator Annotation Processor. Still a few use cases missing wrt distinguishing cardinality.
Additional enhancements from Beta-1 include:
- JDBC 4 support
- Support for column-level read/write fragments (HBM only for now)
- Support for Infinispan as a second-level cache provider
Check out the release notes for the full list of changes.
The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository. Additionally the release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.
Please report any issues to Jira. Visit us on IRC or the forums if you have a usage question.
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