Apache OpenJPA 2.4.2
Licensed under Apache License 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Content
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   * Overview
   * License
   * Notices
   * Prerequisites
   * Documentation
   * Getting Involved
   * Included Changes
     * Sub-tasks
     * Bugs
     * Improvements
     * New Features
     * Test


Overview
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   The Apache OpenJPA community is proud to release a SNAPSHOT distribution of
   OpenJPA 2.4.2. This distribution is based on the final JSR 317 Java 
   Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification and passes the JPA 2.0 TCK,
   while remaining backwards compatible with prior releases based on the
   Java Persistence API (JPA 1.0) part of Java Community Process JSR-220
   (Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0).
   
   Additional information on the OpenJPA project may be found at the project
   web site:
      http://openjpa.apache.org


License
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   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this
   work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF
   licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
   License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
   WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
   License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
   under the License.

   The license may also be found in LICENSE.txt included in each assembly.


Notices
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   Copyright 2006,2012 The Apache Software Foundation.
   Apache, the Apache feather logo and OpenJPA are trademarks of
   The Apache Software Foundation.

   This product includes software developed at
   The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

   OpenJPA includes the persistence and orm schemas from the JPA specifications.
   Copyright 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
   OpenJPA elects to include this software in this distribution under the
   CDDL license.  You can obtain a copy of the License at:
       https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL.html
   The source code is available at:
       http://java.net/projects/glassfish

   The complete list of notices can be found in NOTICE.txt included in each
   assembly.


Prerequisites
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   OpenJPA requires Java SE 6 or higher and a relational 
   database of some sort.


Documentation
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   If you have questions about OpenJPA, a good source of information is the
   online product manual. You can find the manual for the current release as
   well as older releases of OpenJPA at
       http://openjpa.apache.org/documentation.html

   If you can't find what you are looking for in the manual or would like more
   clarification, please post to the OpenJPA development mailing list.
   Information on all of the OpenJPA mailing lists may be found here:
       http://openjpa.apache.org/mailing-lists.html


Getting Involved
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   The Apache OpenJPA project is being built by the open source community for
   the open source community - we welcome your input and contributions!

   What we are looking for
        * Source code and fixes contributions
        * Documentation assistance
        * Product and feature suggestions
        * Detailed and constructive feedback
        * Articles and whitepapers

   How do I contribute?
        * To discuss Apache OpenJPA topics check out the mailing lists.
        * Informal discussion also occurs on the #openjpa IRC channel on
          freenode.net.
        * Bugs and other issues can be posted on the issue tracker at
          https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA


Included Changes in OpenJPA 2.4.2
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** Bug
    * [OPENJPA-2245] - NotSerializableException when using a remote QueryCache and the Criteria API
    * [OPENJPA-2631] - ClassCastException occurs when an equals comparison query is executed on an entity with an @EmbeddedId that contains more than one field.
    * [OPENJPA-2632] - select new not working if result class is not in same classloader
    * [OPENJPA-2636] - Custom plugins (e.g. JDBCListener, DBDictionary) can cause Classloader leaks.
    * [OPENJPA-2640] - Cannot use custom DBDictionary with Maven plugin
    * [OPENJPA-2650] - When SchemaFactory and useSchemaName=false is set, a schema name is incorrectly used.
    * [OPENJPA-2651] - IDs of entities are incorrectly assigned when @SqlResultSetMapping is used with inheritance and a ManyToOne relationship.
    * [OPENJPA-2672] - ConfigurationImpl.loadGlobals() has java.util.ConcurrentModificationException vulnerability
    * [OPENJPA-2674] - JarFile is not closed
    * [OPENJPA-2675] - Missing check for null parameter in equals()
    * [OPENJPA-2676] - openjpa relies on default locale
    * [OPENJPA-2684] - Persistence entities not recognized in Wildfly 10 if in a JAR

** Improvement
    * [OPENJPA-2660] - Resolve Maven warnings