[OJB-developers] weekly status update and new release !

[Thomas M. <tho...@ho...>]

Hi all,

Here is the weekly status update. See attached todo list.

There is also a new release focussing on documentation, bug fixes and a
Testsuite for the LockManager.

from the release notes:

Release 0.5.200

changes in this release:

New features
- Write Tutorial 3 
- Make access to OJB.properties configurable ( System property pref.) 
- Make implicit locking of associated objects configurable 
- Use the JDK 1.3 Dynamic Proxies for PB Lazy loading 
- Documentation for LockManager 

refactorings
- ODMG: no registering in Constructors of ODMG Collections 
- Unify Manual and Dynamic Proxy Mechanism, 
- provide compatibility patch for JDK 1.2 
- Remove superfluous methods from PB interface 
- Remove all code references to SequenceManager 
- Write a complete Testsuite for Locking mechanism 
- Integrate with new version 3.7 of JUnit framework 

bug fixes
- A bind / lookup sequence does not work within one transaction 
- ODMG: bind must register new objects to current transaction 
- ObjectStateTable.commit() must call PB.abort() in case of an exception 
- JDBCAcccess must use getBytes() to read BINARY, VARBINARY and
LONGVARBINARY 
- Make Identities extent aware 

best regards,

Thomas