Re: EJBQL improvings?

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 19:23:55 EST

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    Too late to change anything in 3.0...

    As for EJBQL, the term may not be familiar to many users. I am
    actually a bit confused myself. All the JPA literature talks of JPQL,
    and only the spec talks of EJBQL. We picked the worst term of the 2
    IMO :)

    Andrus

    On Dec 14, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

    > On 15/12/09 2:42 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
    >> Yes, we probably should, as well as finishing EJB3.0 missing pieces
    >> like
    >> support for constructors and OUTER joins (IIRC these are the 2 things
    >> not working in Cayenne 3.0 EJBQL)...
    >>
    >> Also probably should rename it to CQL (Cayenne Query Language) to
    >> avoid
    >> wrong associations and allow us to add our own extensions (e.g. add
    >> support for DB expressions).
    >
    > If we are going to rename it, we should do it now, before the
    > release and before people start relying on the naming we've just
    > introduced with 3.0.
    >
    > But I think it is OK to leave it as EJBQL since it will help
    > convince people moving from some other tool where they have created
    > lots of queries they don't want to have to rewrite. A bit like HTML,
    > it is mostly the same, most of the time. Except when it isn't
    > because we do extra bits.
    >
    >
    > Ari
    >
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