EclipseLink/Development/2.5.0

EclipseLink 2.5.0 Development Plan

This is the early plan for EclipseLink 2.5.0. The focus will be on JPA 2.1 and extending the new persistence capabilities of version 2.4.

Proposed Features

• JPA
  • 2.1 Reference Implementation
  • HANA Platform (SAP Contribution)
• Extend NoSQL support
  • Additional Data Sources
• JPA-RS Enhancements
  • Enhanced metamodel
  • Declarative Data Validation
  • Data Level Security
• MOXy
  • NamedObjectGraphs
    • Design doc
      • Allow a subset of attributes to be marshaled and unmarshaled
    • Examples
      • Specifying Object Graphs through Metadata
      • Specifying Object Graphs Programmatically
      • Handling Inheritance
      • Object Graphs & Dynamic JAXB
  • Mapping Enhancements
    • @XmlInverseReferecne is writable in both directions
    • Better support for Mapping a Collection to both XML and JSON by leveraging @XmlElementWrapper as JSON key
  • JAX-RS Enhancements
    • Added support for JSON with Padding
    • MOXyJsonProvider - support for further JAX-RS implementations