April 25th 2008- DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0 ("Faraday") Milestone 1 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 Milestone 1 includes the following changes (to JPOX codebase)

• Support for persistence to and simple JDOQL querying of LDAP
• Support for persistence to and simple JDOQL querying of Excel
• Support for persistence to and simple JDOQL querying of XML
• Support for SQL querying of db4o
• Several bug fixes, and much restructuring of the JPOX codebase

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