JPA Diagram Editor 0.5 RC2 released

The JPA Diagram Editor project has just published the next release candidate - 0.5 RC2. This milestone build requires Graphiti 0.7.0 RC1. Check the project's wiki page for installation instructions.

This RC comes with a significant list of bugs fixed. There are still some more left. So we are going to have one more RC in the next weeks and then we will officially release version 0.5, which will be compatible with Helios and Graphiti 0.7.

I'd like to thank my colleagues Stefan and Petya for their great job in driving the project. Kudos go also to Ram, Tuukka and Alex for the great bugs they have reported.

By the way, we have set up a Hudson build, so everybody can have an early look at the bug fixes we commit to CVS. More info: http://wiki.eclipse.org/JPA_Diagram_Editor_Project#Build_Infrastructure

And, by the way, the JPA Diagram Editor will be presented at the Eclipse Summit Europe 2010 :-)

Stay tuned!

JPA Diagram Editor first milestone released

I am happy to announce that the JPA Diagram Editor project made its first milestone release - 0.5 RC1. Just follow the installation instructions, posted on the project's wiki, and you are ready to build your JPA model in a diagram. There is a nice Getting Started tutorial to help your first steps. If you want to take a quick look before installing, then check our demo on YouTube.



The JPA Diagram Editor is a new incubating project in the WTP Incubator. The project is initiated by SAP and aims to contribute the existing JPA Diagram Editor from the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, and continue its future development in the Eclipse community. This contribution is based on the Graphiti project - the new graphics modeling infrastructure in Eclipse.

The official 0.5 version of the project will provide a stable release of the initial contribution. Due to the migration to Graphiti, there are some bugs to be cleaned and we are actively working on them. Nevertheless, we decided to release early to hear your feedback sooner. If you eventually find a bug, then please report it in the WTP Incubator Bugzilla (use component wtp.inc.jpaeditor). You can check the list of already reported bugs if that bug has already been found - we are actively testing at the moment.

Please, note that currently the JPA Diagram Editor supports only JPA 1.0 projects. This mean that you will not see the "Open Diagram" action in the context menu of JPA 2.0 projects. JPA 2.0 support is definitely on our radar screen. We will start working on it after releasing the stable 0.5 version.

Any feedback is very welcome. Especially with suggestions how to evolve the project in the future months. We are available on the WTP Incubator Forum and wtp-incubator-dev@eclipse.org mailing list.