First public milestone release now available at GitHub and Maven Central

[Neale Upstone [Dev]]

Yesterday we published the first public milestone release of our fuzzy
matching database technology.

The source and issue tracking are hosted on GitHub at
https://github.com/whirlwind-match/whirlwind-db.

In publishing the 1.0.0.M1 release we've added the following features
aimed at allowing new users to get started with minimal fuss (and
we're working on more for M2):
- Support for embedded instances
- Support for in non-persistent databases (we'll be working on
CloudFoundry examples during M2)
- Spring Framework transaction management (i.e. supports
@Transactional annotation)
- Direct configuration from a Spring context

See: https://github.com/whirlwind-match/whirlwind-db/issues?milestone=2&state=closed
for full details of what went in this release.

We're well aware that documentation is thin at the moment. We'll be
working by example in the first instance by providing some useful
samples ready to run.

Until then, do give us a shout here, and we'll help you get fuzzy.