The Torque development team is pleased to announce the release of Torque 4.0-beta1. The "look and feel" of Torque 3 was maintained. However, there are some sunstantial changes: - The generator is now a general-purpose code generator. - This means that the templates must now be specified as explicit dependency in the generator. Check the tutorial for details. - As the templates are now modular, it is easy to extend or modify the generated code without having to replace the whole templates. - A new Criteria implementation was created, with easier semantics. The old Criteria implementation was retained but deprecated. - The Torque runtime does not use the village library any more. - Prepared statements are used throughout all queries. - Column names are now encapsulated in objects. - At least Java 1.5 is now required - Database views are now supported out-of-the-box - Supplying "null" as value for a database connection now results in an error in Torque 4. In Torque 3, Torque automatically opened a database connection if a connection argument was null.
Home page: http://db.apache.org/torque/releases/torque-4.0/index.html Migration guide: http://db.apache.org/torque/releases/torque-4.0/migration-from-torque-3.html Tutorial: http://db.apache.org/torque/releases/torque-4.0/tutorial/index.html Torque 4.0-beta1 is available via maven central under the following ids: runtime: <groupId>org.apache.torque</groupId> <artifactId>torque-runtime</artifactId> <version>4.0-beta1</version> maven plugin: <groupId>org.apache.torque</groupId> <artifactId>torque-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>4.0-beta1</version> templates: <groupId>org.apache.torque</groupId> <artifactId>torque-templates</artifactId> <version>4.0-beta1</version> Alternatively, source and binary documentation are available at: http://db.apache.org/torque/releases/torque-4.0/download.html Changelog: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310280&version=12312102 Feel free to contact the torque-user mailing lists if you have any questions. The Torque development team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: torque-dev-unsubscr...@db.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: torque-dev-h...@db.apache.org