Dali New And Noteworthy

Pre-milestone functionality

• Supported Annotations (configurable through UI)
  • Basic
  • Column
  • Embeddable
  • Embedded
  • Entity
  • GeneratedValue
  • Id
  • JoinColumn
  • ManyToOne
  • MappedSuperclass
  • OneToMany
  • OneToOne
  • Table
  • TableGenerator
  • Transient
• Entity Defaults assistance
  • Ability to see what the default selection is for a given value
• Entity Validation
  • Entity compliance problems(example - No Id defined)
  • Defaults based problems(example - default column name is not on the table defined by the entity)

M1 Iteration 1

• Basic support for ManyToMany mapping - does not support multiple JoinColumns
• Support for SequenceGenerator and TableGenerator
• Support for Version annotation
• Support for AttributeOverrides in Entities and Embeddeds
• Utilization of Generics information in mapping info
• Ability to specify any DB Schema to map to from your chosen connection
• Unified on the PFD version of the spec (with exception of a name change for GeneratorType to GenerationType; this will be fixed in an early M1I2 build)
  • Among other things, this accounts for the removal of AccessType from the annotation based definition- AccessType is now determined by where applicable annotations are placed.
• String based OrderBy support

M1 (Iteration 2)

• Basic support for Entity generation from Tables (Reverse Engineering)
  • Does not yet support generation of 1-M or M-M associations; this is scheduled for phase 2 in M2
• DDL Generation from Entities (Forward Engineering)
• Bug fixes and various minor enhancements

M2

• Entity generation from Tables – phase 2 (supports 1-M, M-1, M-M, Java code conventions)
• Multiple JoinColumns support for relationship mappings
• Embedded, Context sensitive help - Dali User Guide
• Now building against WTP 1.5M6

M3

• persistence.xml
  • When adding the Java Persistence capability to a Java Project, you can optionally have a persistence.xml created.
  • Schema validation and application validation is performed on the persistence.xml
  • Right-click on the persistence.xml to synchronize the defined classes available in your project. This functionality will create a "class" element for every Entity defined in the project.
• Inheritance
  • Single Table inheritance can now be fully configured in the UI
  • Joining Table inheritance is partially supported, and will be fully supported in M4.
• Offline DB support is now compatible with Dali. Using RDB functionality, you can save your DB schema offline and continue to work with Dali as if you were connected.