18/07/2012 - EL4J moved to private project. ELCA, the sponsor of EL4J, has decided to stop the further development of the public EL4J framework. The project EL4J will continue internally within ELCA, after all it was used in more than 30 projects! In case you are interested in EL4J or payed support, please get in touch with ELCA via http://www.elca.ch/contact_us .
22/12/2010 - EL4J 3.1 is out. Upgrade to Maven 3.0, better test support (e.g. @ExtendedContextConfiguration to lauch Spring in a test), a new GenericJpaDao, a new DataExtent that optimizes roundtrips to the db, and as always many bug fixes. For more information please refer to the release notes.
07/09/2010 - EL4J 3.0 is out - a new era of EL4J has begun: Upgrade to Spring 3.0, the new JPA 2.0-ready Hibernate 3.5.4, switch to more annotation-based configuration. Some streamlining and as always many bug fixes. For more information please refer to the release notes.
16/12/2009 - EL4J 1.7 released. On time for christmas, the 1.7 release of EL4J is available. Apart from a lot of smaller improvements, the main new features are: Upgrade to Maven 2.2.1, support for H2 databases, improved integration of FindBugs, upgraded to Spring Security 2.0.4, upgrade to Hibernate 3.3.2, full support of Spring IDE for eclipse in the normal maven lifecycle, added support for the Joda-Time library, upgrade of all major maven plugins to the newest versions... and a lot more. Check out the ReleaseNotes for more information on EL4J 1.7.
01/06/2009 - EL4J 1.6 released. Quite a large number of new features: DataExtent for controlling lazy loading, JAX-WS upgrade, first release of the Hibernate offliner, cleaned up env support (to share config between Maven and Spring, now each module can incrementally define its configuration), database scripts can now be versioned and only the "right" scripts are then applied, ID fixer improvements, support for the Maven Sonar plugin, better handling of the PK handling with Hibernate, full JPA support in Hibernate (e.g. @PrePersist can be enabled). Upgrades for many libraries C3P0 instead of DBCP, Spring, Maven, ...
24/10/2008 - EL4J 1.5.1 released. This is mainly a maintenance release: Clean ups, upgrade to new plugins and improved modules.
14/07/2008 - EL4J 1.5 released. Main features: Clean ups (some older parts were removed, some bugs fixed), more convenience methods for hibernate access, new beans:beans maven plugin that generates Spring IDE files, ...
04/5/2008 - EL4J 1.4 released. Main features: More convenience methods for database access, new support to layout Swing GUIs in XML (similar to XAML), many maven improvements, jconsole can connect by default to EL4J applications, clean-ups, ...
14/12/2007 - EL4J 1.2 released. Main features: New Swing GUI framework, JAXWS usable via POJO programming model, new libraries, improved doc, seam demo, clean-ups, ....
13/08/2007 - EL4J 1.1.3 released. Main features: Upgrade to new libraries, mysql support, improved doc, many bugfixes.
20/02/2007 - EL4J 1.1.1 released. Main features: Many clean ups and simplifications, new maven artefact, database and dependency maven plugins, JAXB support for webservices.
03/11/2006 - EL4J 1.1 released.
03/10/2006 - The license of EL4J is weakened to the LGPL license!
21/09/2006 - EL4J 1.1 is delayed due to the delay of Spring 2.0. It is planned for the beginning of October.
08/08/2006 - Published article about identity fixer on documentation page.
21/07/2006 - EL4J 1.1 planned for august: Maven and JDK 1.5 support, generic DAO, more integrations, ...
