Waiting for Roma 1.0 apha

While Roma project staff is working to release the first alpha version of 1.0 many things are changed in SVN repository:

• USERS module was splitted (refactored) in USERS + ADMIN following responsability rules
  
• New Xml Desktop to render component in dynamic desktop described in XML form
• New JPOX libraries that resolve some bugs
• Much other

Following this link you'll find more details about integration with old projects based on Roma:

Waiting for Roma 1.0 alpha

JPA vs JDO

Many people think that the newest JPA is always the best choice now that first EJB 3.0 implementations are released.

JPA is a subset of Sun Microsystem JDO 2.0 standard. JPOX team published a matrix to compare their.

JPA vs JDO 2.0

Today Freshmeat wakes up my email account with the new version of JPOX 1.1.4. I'll try it tonight to release it in the next RomaFramework distribution.

Congratulation JPOX team, the best ORM tool I never used. If you cannot use a pure ODBMS, JPOX is the best choice to work with objects and a Relational DBMS. With no doubts!