Cayenne 4.1 Milestone 2 Released
Jul 23, 2018

Apache Cayenne team is glad to announce next milestone release of Cayenne 4.1. This is a development release that introduces a number of nice new features along with many fixes and improvements.

Notable changes are:
  1. New reverse engineering UI in Cayenne Modeler, that is much more intuitive and customizable, more over configuration is now saved so you can evolve it with your model and perform reverse engineering in one click.
  1. User controlled transaction propagation logic and isolation level.
    TransactionManager manager = runtime.getInjector().getInstance(TransactionManager.class);
    TransactionDescriptor descriptor = new TransactionDescriptor(
            Connection.TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE, // set transaction isolation to SERIALIZABLE 
            TransactionPropagation.REQUIRES_NEW  // require new transaction for every operation
    );
    manager.performInTransaction(() -> {
        // perform some DB operations...
        return null;
    }, descriptor);

Important note: this release removes all code deprecated in Cayenne 4.0, so review and fix your code before update.

Cayenne can be downloaded from here.

Changes/New Features:

  • CAY-1683 Injectable PkGenerator
  • CAY-2304 Custom ClassLoader for Maven and Gradle plugins that use project dependencies
  • CAY-2334 cgen: option to force run from maven/gradle
  • CAY-2337 Save reverse engineering configuration with datamap XML
  • CAY-2372 Extract new modules from cayenne-server
  • CAY-2377 Cleanup deprecated code.
  • CAY-2391 cdbimport: add option to skip user-defined relationships
  • CAY-2393 Add sqlserver-docker profile to automate tests on SQLServer
  • CAY-2394 Upgrade to Apache Velocity 2.0
  • CAY-2395 cdbimport: add option to create project file
  • CAY-2396 Upgrade maven-assembly-plugin to 3.1.0
  • CAY-2398 Deprecate cayenne-joda
  • CAY-2400 Deprecate cayenne-dbcp2
  • CAY-2403 Extract eventbridges to top level
  • CAY-2404 Move itests to maven-plugins
  • CAY-2406 Add prefetch-related API to SQLSelect
  • CAY-2407 Modeler: add prefetch support for the SQLTemplate query
  • CAY-2410 Add prefetch type support for SQLTemplate query and SelectQuery
  • CAY-2414 Modeler: new icon design
  • CAY-2415 Transaction isolation and propagation support
  • CAY-2416 Change TreeMap for HashMap to store data in Cayenne model classes
  • CAY-2422 Modeler: Open driver setup window on driver load error
  • CAY-2438 Split DataChannel filter into two independent filters
  • CAY-2440 cdbimport: allow cross-schema relationships
  • CAY-2443 Make SqlTemplate and SqlExec possible to return generated keys

Bug Fixes:

  • CAY-2282 Various Update Issues With Vertical Inheritance
  • CAY-2370 ValueObjectType for byte[] fails lookup
  • CAY-2380 ReferenceMap should not store or return null values
  • CAY-2381 cgen: meaningful PK with boxed type ends up with primitive type in generated source
  • CAY-2382 Lack of synchronization in DataContext serialization
  • CAY-2387 Can’t select byte[] property with ColumnSelect
  • CAY-2388 Modeler: Visualization issues with undo/redo actions for attributes and relationships
  • CAY-2389 DbEntity qualifier with DbPath expression translates into wrong SQL
  • CAY-2392 Modeler: Unable to remove DataNode
  • CAY-2397 Modeler: Unable to set enum:value as Entity qualifier
  • CAY-2401 Modeler: NPE in ObjEntity sync action
  • CAY-2405 Broken prefetch of entity with inheritance and attribute with custom java type
  • CAY-2408 Cayenne JDK 10 compatibility
  • CAY-2411 Wrong resolution of ExtendedType with ValueObjectType for inherited class
  • CAY-2418 Modeler: unable to edit entity selected via Search
  • CAY-2419 Modeler: Not changing highlight on selecting search results within one entity
  • CAY-2420 Modeler: search is not performed for Stored Procedures
  • CAY-2425 Modeler: Migrate DB Direction field is locked if no option was selected in dropdown list
  • CAY-2427 Modeler: Undo throws exception
  • CAY-2429 Generate classes: Invalid template type: EMBEDDABLE_SINGLE_CLASS
  • CAY-2430 Modeler: Redo throws NPE
  • CAY-2435 cdbimport: procedure parameters are not imported
  • CAY-2436 NPE in CayenneRuntimeException constructor
  • CAY-2439 Modeler: Error deleting dbEntity when show only dbEntities filter is set
  • CAY-2442 Broken EventBridge providers implementations
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