Yes, it does sound like there will be a JPA 2.2 MR planned for Java EE 8.
Linda will no longer lead the expert group, but I'm sure she will still be
involved. Linda told me the name of the new lead at JavaOne and now I
can't remember it... Maybe he/she will introduce themselves for this
conversation? :-)
-- Kevin Sutter
arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote on 11/10/2015 05:42:00 PM:
> From: arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>
> To: users <users_at_javaee-spec.java.net>
> Date: 11/10/2015 08:01 PM
> Subject: [javaee-spec users] Re: JPA.next?
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com> wrote:
> Did anyone ever respond to this?
>
> None of the vendors mentioned replied unfortunately.
>
> I did see some coverage of a JPA 2.2 MR in one of the JavaOne
> videos. See this at 4:19:26:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OKEpg5zpsU#t=4h19m26s
>
> It mentions:
>
> * CDI support in attribute converters
> * Meta annotations
> * Repeating annotations
>
> * Date/time support
> * Stream support in queries
> * JPQL/SQL string from Query
>
> * Autocloseable for entity manager/factory (for Java SE)
> * Pagination support for JPQL and Criteria
> * Creating criteria from query
> * Subquery(entityType) to criteria
> * Query metamodel by entity name
> * NoSQL
> * Multitenacy
>
> Sounds like a good list ;)
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, June 29, 2015, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently there are still a lot of open JPA issues in the spec JIRA,
> but no new version of JPA is planned yet. If I'm not mistaken Oracle
> indicated earlier that it's more of a resource question than anything
else.
>
> If that's indeed the case, I wonder if it wouldn't be an option to
> ask eg Red Hat to take up a bunch of the work. They clearly have
> much experience with JPA via Hibernate. An other option is perhaps
> asking the ObjectDB guys.
>
> In such setup the spec could still be officially Oracle led, but
> Oracle could be more in an arbitrating role instead of being
> responsible for the bulk of the work.
>
> Just wondering if such setup has been considered.
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
>
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