[Topaz-general] Ann: 0.8.3 Release of Topaz

[Amit Kapoor]

Hi folks,

    We are pleased to announce the 0.8.3 release of the Topaz platform. Some
    significant amount of work has gone into this release and feedback would be
    much appreciated. Besides the usual bunch of bug fixes, there are some
    significant changes that have gone in:

      * Support for JTA

        a) You can use Topaz within an external JTA compliant transaction manager
        b) Topaz uses JTA to communicate with the underlying stores

      * Structural revamp of OTM

        OTM package has been revamped (more needs to be done) to be able to do
        non-POJO bindings.

      * Lazy loading for collection of associations

        Please see http://www.topazproject.org/trac/ticket/627

      * Infrastructure work for content models

        Still more work needs to be done here to provide support for OWL/RDFS.

      * Use of RMI instead of SOAP to communicate with Mulgara

      * Support for read-only transactions

        Should lead to better performance as it will allow concurrent
        transactions on Mulgara

      * Support for Mulgara 1.2

    regards

Amit