Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-2 include:
- Complete criteria and JPAQL support
- Full metamodel API support, including StaticMetamodel support in conjunction with the Hibernate StaticMetamodel Generator Annotation Processor.
- Initial lock support, mostly what is missing/needed is verification of all the dialects
- Mostly complete JPA 2 mapping enhancements including @Access and full Map support.
Additional enhancements from Beta-2 include:
- Expanded and more consistent read-only support
Check out the release details 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.
A lot of effort from many folks went into this release and I'd like to thank everyone for all the bug reports, patches and development work that went into this.
Thanks!
