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We are happy to announce that Empire-db has been accepted by the Apache Software Foundation for incubation and is now available from the Apache Incubator (http://incubator.apache.org).

Hence from August 2008 the source code repository and issue tracking facilities of the Apache-Software-Foundation will be used exclusively for all activities concerning the Empire-db and Empire-Struts2-Extenstions. The same applies for further announcements.... read more

The new Empire-db release 2.0.2 is available from today (July 6, 2008).
Above others the new release features two major improvements:

1. The implementation of the createView method for all existing database drivers now allows creating and modifying database views by supplying the corresponding DDL commands.

2. In order to provide uniform client level access of data and metadata for both relational and non-relational data sources, Empire-db now features new classes which work with any JavaBean or data object and hence allow dealing with data from Web-Services or flat files in the same way as DMBS data. For metadata definition three new classes called BeanDomain, BeanClass and BeanProperty are provided with the latter implementing the Column interface. A fourth class called BeanRecordProxy implements the Record interface for any given JavaBean or data object.
The Empire-Struts2-Extentions project has been changed accordingly with all tags and input controls now working with the Column and Record interfaces accepting JavaBean and DBMS data alike.... read more

The new empire-db release 2.0.1 now brings comprehensive MySQL Database support with the capability of creating DLL and DML statements in the MySQL dialect.

Additionally some new methods for using SQL string functions have been added and handling of DDL Scripts has been improved.

For further information please see the file ReleaseNotes supplied with the distribution.

The empire-db website is now online.
Please visit http://www.empire-db.org

Enjoy.