Dec 11th 2008- DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.3 ("Faraday") is released. DataNucleus Access Platform provides persistence and retrieval of Java objects to/from a wide range of datastores including RDBMS, db4o, LDAP, XML, and Excel. It continues from the Java Persistent Objects (JPOX) project. Version 1.0.3 includes the following changes

• Upgrade to Apache POI 3.2
• Support for String.startsWith/endsWith/indexOf with parameter/primary expressions
• Catch leading/trailing blanks in persistence properties
• Support for OpenJPA/Kodo style datastore identity (for people migrating from Kodo)
• Support for Xcalia style datastore identity (for people migrating from Xcalia)
• LDAP : Support for native queries rather than performing all in-memory.
• Fix for unary minus in generic query mechanism
• Remove enhancer "verify" mode since no longer used
• Provide access to class bytes after enhancement via enhancer API
• Fix to replication in some cases where object didnt exist in datastore 2
• Fix to RDBMS large result "count" method to ignore ordering

This release is downloadable under an Apache 2 license from the DataNucleus community site.