New and Noteworthy

JPA 2.1
The features in this section are some of the new features added in JPA 2.1. Criteria Bulk Update/Delete Stored Procedures JPQL Generic function support Injectable Entity Listeners Treat Converters DDL Gen JPA 2.1 - Entity Graphs	Documentation
Maven Central
EclipseLink has established Maven publication through the Sonatype OSS Nexus instance to Maven Central	Documentation
MOXy Named Object Graphs
Allow a subset of attributes to be marshaled and unmarshaled	JSON with Padding
JSON and XML Mappings with JAX-RS
	JSON with Padding MOXyJsonProvider @XmlInverseReference @XmlElementWrapper

Enhancements and Resolved Issues

In addition to the features highlighted in the New and Noteworthy section this release also includes a substantial number of bug fixes and enhancements.

• 2.5.2: All Fixed Bugs and enhancement requests

  Component: Foundation , JPA , MOXy , SDO , DBWS

Known Issues

The following are known issues that have been identified as potentially effecting users of EclipseLink 2.5.

• As of the 2.5.2 patch set, builds will no longer be published to the download.eclipse.org Maven repository. Builds will continue to be published oss.sonatype.com
• Bug 374771

  Some TREAT expressions in the where clause will not work properly.

• Bug 404294

  Application managed persistence contexts (EntityManager) using JTA transactions must join the active transaction where as previously it automatically joined. Without the joinTransaction call, the changes made in the Entitymanager will not be commited when the JTA transaction compltes.

• Bug 407570

  Attribute defined in an unmapped POJO and inhertited by an Entity, may not be be persisted. Simplest solution is to ensure that all the persisted attributes are mapped (ie. @MappedSuperclass). See the bug for futher details.

• Bug 408015

  Redploying a JPA-RS persistence unit will not always update the persistence unit with new mappings. Two workarounds are described in the bug.

• When running EclipseLink 2.5 in Glassfish 4.0, you must specify a valid datasource in the persistence.xml through either the jta-data-source or non-jta-data-source tags.

Standards

EclipseLink remains focused on the delivering support for the latest standards. EclipseLink 2.5 offers certified support for:

• Java Persistence (JPA) 2.1 - JSR 338
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2 - JSR 222
• Service Data Objects (SDO) 2.1.1 - JSR 235

Deprecated Functionality

In EclipseLink 2.5 the following features/API have been deprecated. Please upgrade to the suggested alternatives to avoid issues in the future when these deprecated features/AIP might be removed. release pages

• Bug 399676: Deprecation of non-versions REST URIs

  JPA-RS accepts request urls with and without version. The URIs without version are deprecated and clients are encourage use versioned ones.

Retention Policy

The previous EclipseLink 2.5 releases will remain available for download from the previous releases page where it remain for a minimum period of 2 years before becoming available for archival.

Future Releases

For more information about future planned EclipseLink releases and patch sets please refer to the releases section of the project summary.