Release 1.5.3 is ready with a lot of additional stored procedure support

[Lukas Eder]

Hi Community,

With the help of Espen, we have succeeded in releasing version 1.5.3 with lots of additional stored procedure support and bugfixes. Check out the release notes for details:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jooq/files/Release/RELEASENOTES.txt

Extended support for stored procedures, advanced datatypes and other vendor-specific RDBMS constructs are the primary goals and features of jOOQ, apart from its fluent DSL that helps for fast creation of SQL in Java. The feedback I had in my dzone article about stored procedures, as well as on stackoverflow and other media is promising. We're on the right track. Check out the dzone article here:
http://java.dzone.com/articles/2011-great-year-stored

This means that our primary goals for release 1.5.4 will be:

• More stored procedure / package / UDT integration
• Support for ARRAY types
• Support for CURSOR types and similar constructs
• Support for at least one more database

Take part in the database discussion thread here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4685107/what-other-rdbms-should-my-open-source-java-persistence-library-support

The change of paradigm is manifesting more and more. When I started creating jOOQ, I was thinking that I was about to create YAORM - Yet Another OR-mapper. Very untrue as can be seen today. See for example Timo Westkämper's appreciated comments on the jOOQ user group:
http://groups.google.com/group/jooq-user/browse_thread/thread/bbde77f2e01ea8e8

In fact, jOOQ really embraces the active record pattern, staying close to the "relational" and to the database. With this switch of paradigm, long-term goals will be to interface with JPA/Hibernate and possibly other ORMs in a different way where the OR-mapper can be put "on top" of jOOQ.

We'll see what the future brings. Let's get to work for release 1.5.4! :-)

Cheers
Lukas

[Espen Strømsnes]

Congratulations on the 1.5.3 release!

Espen

2011/1/13 Lukas Eder <lukas...@gmail.com>

[Lukas Eder]

Thanks Espen. Downloads are going up:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jooq/files/stats/timeline

Hope there is the odd committer among them, as enthusiast as you :-)
Do you have any Sybase experience? I have good feedback on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4685107/what-other-rdbms-should-my-open-source-java-persistence-library-support

Or MS SQL...?

Cheers
Lukas

2011/1/14 Espen Strømsnes <estro...@gmail.com>

[Espen Strømsnes]

I noticed the Sybase comment made on stackoverflow.

I don't have any experience with Sybase (at the moment), but I'm about to start in a new job next month and they use Sybase (with extensive use of stored procedures). :-)

Espen

2011/1/14 Lukas Eder <lukas...@gmail.com>

[Lukas Eder]

Oh Espen, you will be the company's new big hero! Good for you! :D

2011/1/14 Espen Strømsnes <estro...@gmail.com>