June 17th 2009- DataNucleus Access Platform 1.1.4 ("Rutherford") is released. DataNucleus Access Platform provides persistence and retrieval of Java objects to/from a wide range of datastores including RDBMS, db4o, LDAP, XML, Excel, ODF and BigTable. Version 1.1.4 includes the following changes over 1.1.3

• Make the query cache pluggable, allowing use of external caching products
• Add support for use of Memcache, javax.cache, and EHCache for the query cache
• Addition of upfront checks on whether the datastore supports particular features so allowing quick fail
• Bug fix to datastores which don't provide non-transactional connections
• Simplification of specification of L2 caching, for consistency with L1 cache and Query cache.
• Improvement to classloading for RDBMS "requests" for use in OSGi containers
• Change JPA default for discriminator value to use "class name" when no value specified.
• Improvements to fallback process for persisting a type as a String
• Add control over cascade delete of map keys, and minor change in default
• Bug fix to JPQL "LOWER"/"UPPER" compilation
• Bug fix to List.set() methods when using cascade delete
• Respect JPA "fetch" setting on 1-1 relations
• Support JPA "columnDefinition" in a minimalistic way
• RDBMS : Change fetch process to allow fetching of related (1-1, N-1) objects in same SQL
• RDBSM : Change to Oracle BLOB/CLOB handling to use new SQL API instead of legacy code.
• XML : Bug fix to addition of elements to collection of persistent object
• LDAP : Bug fix to JNDI connection pooling
• LDAP : Support for persisting embedded elements as child entries
• LDAP : Support for inheritance in relationships

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