Release Notes for corm-party-snapshot-01

This is the first release of the CORM project. It contains some of the objects in the party archetype pattern, as well as JDO mappings to a MySQL database backend. Users will need to download and install MySQL on their own, and they'll also need to get the plugin jars necessary to meet the project's dependencies. Some of these jars are proprietary and are not readily available in Maven's directory on iBiblio, such as the MySQL JDBC jar, and the SUN JDO jars. See our guide on building the CORM project for more details.

This first snapshot is for experienced Open Source Java developers only, who are familiar with building projects in Maven. Code coverage should be at or very near 100%, and no test should break.

The following can be assumed about the corm-party-1.0-snapshot-01 release:

• The software requires Java 5.0.
• The project can be built in Maven 1.x.
• The release requires a functional MySQL environment.
• The tests require a functional JPOX v1.1.0 beta-5 installation.
• There is not yet any support for Hibernate.
• The model beans are 100% POJOs--no JDO dependencies whatsoever.