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EclipseLink 2.5.2

The primary focus of the EclipseLink 2.5 release is the delivery of the JPA 2.1 (JSR 338) Reference Implementation.

New features include:

  • Full JPA 2.1 support
  • Maven Central support
  • New DB platforms: HANA and Pervasive
  • JPA-RS Enhancements
  • MOXy - NamedObjectGraphs

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

Maven Central

EclipseLink has established Maven publication through the Sonatype OSS Nexus instance to Maven Central

MOXy Named Object Graphs

Allow a subset of attributes to be marshaled and unmarshaled

JSON and XML Mappings with JAX-RS

    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.

      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

            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.

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