News and Status

This document contains the latest news and status regarding the Torque project. It is here that you'll find announcements related to Torque.

This release of the Torque 4 branch allows feedback before the 4.0 release. The main changes with respect to Torque 3.3 are:

The "look and feel" of Torque 3 was maintained.
The generator is now a general-purpose code generator.
As the templates are now modular, it is easy to extend or modify the generated code without having to replace the whole templates.
A new Criteria implementation was created, with slightly changed semantics. The old Criteria implementation was retained but deprecated.
Prepared statements are sued throughout all queries.
Column names are now encapsulated in objects.

Village is the bridge between Torque and the JDBC-API. This release fixes some long outstanding bugs and can be used as a drop-in replacement for village-3.3. The source and binaries are available in the Maven Repository

Changes in this version:

Fixed: Case sensitivity issues with cached metadata.
Fixed: Getting the metadata from a prepared statement without execution does not work with Oracle.
Fixed: Use cached metadata when running selects. Metadata can be loaded into the cache with Schema.initSchemas(Connection) Issue: TORQUE-36.
Fixed: Statement is left open when Exception is thrown in the QueryDataSet constructor. Issue: TORQUE-123.
Fixed: Village does not close every resultSet it opens. Issue: TORQUE-8.
Deal with situation arising in jre1.6.0_18 where an IllegalArgumentException is encountered for dates with a single digit month or day of month. Issue: TORQUE-133.
Fixed the infamous NPE when Oracle returns null for a blob.

The idea of Torque 4 is to allow major reworking of the internals of Torque 3. The usage of Torque should not change much, however, some more exotic features could change. Details on Torque 4 can be found on the Torque 4 site

This version is virtually identical to 3.3-RC3. The Torque community has voted to use this release candidate as final release.

You can obtain the Torque 3.3 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository. Please refer for the full changes to the changes reports at Changes Report.

This version contains a fair number of fixes against 3.3-RC2, among them the integtration of the Village library into the Torque project. Others are

Improvements and fixes for the Maven2-plugin
Several improvements and corrections to templates to improve SQL and Java code generation for different databases, namely Sybase and MS-SQL.
Improvements and corrections to the templates.
and much more...

You can obtain the Torque 3.3-rc3 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository. Please refer for the full changes to the changes reports at Changes Report.

This version contains a couple of fixes against 3.3-RC1, namely

A fix for the handling of the interface attribute of tables.
Improvements and fixes for the Maven2-plugin
Several improvements and corrections to templates to improve SQL and Java code generation for different databases. Packages should now be taken care of everywhere.
Centralization of the MapBuilder handling to allow repeated initialization/shutdown cycles.
and much more...

You can obtain the Torque 3.3-rc2 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository. Please refer for the full changes to the changes reports at Changes Report.

Maven default repository has moved and now Maven 1.0.x is unable to find required dependencies without a minor configuration change. You will need to add the following to your project.properties file:

maven.repo.remote=http://repo1.maven.org/maven A good place to do add this is in your user id's default Maven project.properties file. This is in your user home directory, e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\userid on Windows or ~userid on *nix. If it doesn't exist, just create one with just that line.

For more information see the Maven 1.1 Site.

The most prominent changes are:

A maven-2 plugin.
Added better support for Apache Derby.
A lot of improvements and corrections have been made to the support of different databases, namely MS-SQL, Oracle and Firebird.
Added support for option tags in most elements of database.dtd
Preserve case of column names in constants (can be switched off in the configuration)
Subqueries are now supported in Criteria.
Added setByName, setByPeerName, and setByPosition methods to OM classes.
Added optional support for Java5 generics support in the generated classes
Build process reworked to make template/generator class add-ons/local mods easier.

You can obtain the Torque 3.3-rc1 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository. Please refer for the full changes to the changes reports at Changes Report.

The most prominent changes since 3.1.1 are:

Added database schema support, both in the generator and in the runtime
Added support for outer joins
Added support for creation of simple java beans from persistent objects
The old connection pool is removed (only dbcp is supported out of the box)
Some smaller changes were made in the database.dtd
The build-torque ant file for the generator is contained again in the generator release

You can obtain the Torque 3.2 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository.
This is the renamed rc3. Please refer to the Changes report for a full list of changes and fixed bugs.

You can obtain the Torque 3.2-rc3 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository.
The focus of this release candidate was fixing bugs in 3.2-rc2. Please refer to the Changes report for a full list of changes and fixed bugs.

You can obtain the Torque 3.2-rc2 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository.
Please refer to the Changes report for a full list of changes.

The most prominent changes are:

Added database schema support, both in the generator and in the runtime
Added support for outer joins
Added support for creation of simple java beans from persistent objects
The old connection pool is removed (only dbcp is supported out of the box)
Some smaller changes were made in the database.dtd
The build-torque ant file for the generator is contained again in the generator release

You can obtain the Torque 3.2-rc1 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository. Please refer for the full changes to the changes reports at Changes Report.

You can obtain the Torque 3.1.1 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository.
This is a bugfix release. The docs including a full list of changes are available here Please refer to the Changes report for a full list of changes.

You can obtain the Torque 3.1.1-rc3 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from the ibiblio maven repository.

A problem handling limit and offset has been corrected. You can obtain the Torque 3.1.1-rc2 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from the ibiblio maven repository.

We are working on setting up the mirrored download page for 3.1.1 final. In the mean time you can obtain the Torque 3.1.1-rc1 generator, runtime and maven-plugin from the ibiblio maven repository.

Farewell to Martin Pöschl.

You can obtain the Torque 3.1 release from our Download page or from the ibiblio maven repository.
The docs including a full list of changes are available here Downloads are available here.

Downloads are available here.

Downloads are available here.
This is a bugfix release. The full list of changes is available here

Downloads are available here.