Blaze-Persistence 1.2.0-Alpha3 Release

By Christian Beikov on 27 April 2017

This release which should already be available on Maven Central includes some very hot features

#406 Spring Boot 1.5.0 support
#375 Entity views support primitive types now
#357 Allow to refer to this in entity view mappings
#351 Spring Data JPA Specification support
#312 Treat support and inheritance mapping support for entity views
#257 Support for specifying fetches in entity views
#198 Proper One-To-One mapping support

and lots of bugfixes

#381 Query caching issues with advanced SQL queries
#338 Workaround for Hibernate CASE WHEN parser bug
#330 Group by KEY expression regression
#319 Fixes for raw type uses in entities

There will be 1-2 subsequent Alpha releases until feature completeness is reached for the 1.2.0 release.
After that we will focus on stabilizing the API and release 1-2 Beta versions before the final version goes out.

In the next Alpha release you can expect the following

#414 Updatable entity view prototype
#321 Better support for JPA field access strategy
#88 Avoid generation of duplicate GROUP BY clauses
#188 SIZE to COUNT transformation when used in WHERE clause
#387 Macro for referring to query root in entity views
#317 Nesting of OUTER functions for proper multi-level subquery-to-parent access
#401 Mapping of java.util.Map in entity views with custom keys
#367 Support for referring to embedding query in subquery of entity view
#325 Support providing EntityViewSetting to Spring-Data repositories
#352 Support Blaze-Persistence Criteria Specification in Spring-Data repositories