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List:       castor-user
Subject:    Re: [castor-user] Castor JDO: Support for polymorphism - A test drive
From:       "Werner Guttmann" <werner.guttmann () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-03-31 19:40:38
Message-ID: 200503311939.j2VJd40e005009 () mailer ! progressive-comp ! com
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Dear users, 

I have just uploaded binaries for this preview release to

http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/previews/0.9.6_with_polymorphism/

Regards
Werner

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:14:52 +0200, Guttmann Werner MAX SD wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> one of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been missing support for \
> polymorphism. After the 0.9.6 release 
back in Februray, which mainly focused on bug fixing, we decided to tackle this \
missing feature and start work for adding  support for 
> polymorphism to Castor JDO. For a complete history of the work done so far and the \
> tests conducted, please have a look at 
http://bugzilla.exolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1881.
> 
> As of last week, most of the work (originally initiated by myself) has been \
> finished, and we are now in a position where we'd 
like to ask you, our users, for feedback. In other words, we think that the current \
implementation is stable enough to make it  available as described below. But as we \
want to get this new feature as stable as possible before heading for a new release  \
(mots likely 0.9.7, but maybe 1.0), we now need feedback from our users.
> 
> To be able to use Castor with support for polymorphism and to run the tests \
> packaged with the bug report, you will have to 
checkout a fresh copy of castor from CVS, and apply the following patches:
> 
> Patch castor to add polymorphism support
> http://bugzilla.exolab.org/attachment.cgi?id=975&action=view
> 
> Patch CTF-JDO to fix problems with old tests
> http://bugzilla.exolab.org/attachment.cgi?id=977&action=view
> 
> Patch with examples and tests related to polymorphism
> http://bugzilla.exolab.org/attachment.cgi?id=980&action=view
> 
> If there's sufficient interest, I can in addition offer to make a binary \
> distribution available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/. 
> Regards
> Werner
> 


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