Dali Java Persistence Tools

Dali 3.2 Released with Juno!

Dali 3.2 has been released as of June 27th, 2012 as a part of the larger Juno release.

Download
• Dali 3.2 is available for download via the Juno Java EE Package, Juno software repository, WTP zip file or p2 repository , or via the Web Tools update site: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/.
New and Noteworthy
• There are a bunch of new features in 3.2. Check out the Noteworthy items in the 3.2 release. Since Indigo, we have made 76 enhancements and fixed 153 bugs!

About Dali

The Dali Java Persistence Tools Project, a sub-project of the Web Tools Platform Project , provides extensible frameworks and tools for the definition and editing of Object-Relational (O/R) mappings for Java Persistence API (JPA) entities. JPA mapping support focuses on minimizing the complexity of mapping by providing entity generation wizards, design-time validation, and a rich UI for entity and persistence unit configuration.

Why Dali?

Salvador Dali . The Persistence of Memory . 1931. (c) 2005 Salvador Dali , Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The focus of Dali is support for JPA O/R mapping which is concerned with the persistence of in memory Java POJOs to relational databases. The title of the famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" aptly describes the goal of the JPA specification and provides the link to the Spanish painter Salvador Dali.

Project News

• Dali 2.2 Released
  The Dali 2.2 maintenance release is available as of June 24th. June 2009
• Dali at JavaOne
  If you'd like to see Dali "up close and personal", Shaun Smith and Doug Clarke will be at JavaOne on the exhibition floor at either the Eclipse booth or the Oracle Community and EclipseLink booths and we'd love to meet you!
• Dali at JAX
  Peter Krogh, co-lead of the EclipseLink project, and Shaun Smith will be presenting a session on building JPA applications with EclipseLink and Dali at JAX. April 2008
• Dali Webinar
  Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT / 3:00 pm GMT/UTC Presented by Shaun Smith, Dali Project Co-lead and Oracle TopLink Product Manager. To register email webinar-dali at eclipse dot org. April 2006
• Dali at Eclipse Summit Europe
  Plan to attend an introduction to Dali at the upcoming Eclipse Summit Europe . August 2006
• Dali at EclipseWorld 2006
  If you'll be at EclipseWorld this year plan to attend the session Building Applications with the Java Persistence API and Dali . August 2006
• Dali 0.5 Released
  Dali Preview Release 0.5 is now available for download . June 2006
• Dali Milestone 3 Released
  Dali Milestone 3 is now available for download . New viewlets of the basic functionality have also been posted (see right hand sidebar). May 2006
• Dali at EclipseCon 2006
  Dali project co-leads Neil Hauge and Shaun Smith will be presenting along side EJB 3.0 spec co-lead Mike Keith at EclipseCon in Santa Clara in March. The presentation title says it all EJB 3.0 Persistence and the Dali EJB ORM Project . Jan 2006
• Dali at Javapolis 2005
  As part of the Eclipse In Action track at Javapolis 2005 , Dali co-lead Shaun Smith will present an introduction to EJB 3.0 development using Dali. Nov 2005
• Hello, Dali! - EJB 3.0 Persistence Tools at Eclipse
  In his blog , Arthur Ryman the Web Tools Project co-lead discusses Dali and other new WTP-related Eclipse projects. Sept 2005
• EclipseWorld Demos now available as Viewlets
  Demos of the Dali tools given at EclipseWorld are now available as viewlets. See the 'Dali Demos' sidebar on the right. Sept 2005
• Dali article in SD Times
  The article EJB Mapping Gets Go-Ahead From Eclipse by Jenniffer deJong provides details on the project and discusses the role of JSR220 in defining a standard Java persistence API. Sept 2005
• Eclipse EJB ORM Project has a new nickname: Dali
  At EclipseWorld 2005 in New York, the new nickname of the Eclipse EJB ORM project was unveiled: 'Dali'. See above for details. Aug 2005
• Eclipse EJB ORM Project approved
  The EMO held the proposal creation review on Tuesday, July 26th. The review attendees included the leads of the Web Tools Project and a representative from the Data Tools Project PMC. Soon after the review we received the news that the Eclipse EJB Object-Relational Mapping Project was approved! We're now going through the provisioning process to get CVS and other resources setup. July 2005
• JBoss joins the Eclipse EJB ORM Project
  JBoss has joined Oracle and SolarMetric on the Eclipse EJB ORM Project. The participation of three of the most active companies on the EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert group will ensure that the tools and frameworks produced by the project will provide excellent support for the development of standards compliant EJB 3.0 Entities. July 2005
• SolarMetric joins the Eclipse EJB ORM Project
  EJB 3.0 Expert Group member company SolarMetric joins Oracle to work on the creation of vendor neutral JPA tooling for Eclipse. July 2005
• JavaOne Demo
  At the Oracle EJB 3.0 booth the first version of the Eclipse EJB 3.0 plugin was on display. A viewlet of the plugin is now available. June/July 2005
• UI Design Concept Document Posted
  The first draft of the ui design document was posted on the project newsgroup for feedback. The document lays out the prpposed code-centric mapping ui approach. June 2005
• Oracle Proposes Eclipse EJB ORM Project
  Oracle announced that it is expanding its leadership role in driving developer adoption of the next-generation enterprise Java platform by spearheading a project within the Eclipse open-source community to support the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 JPA specification. April 2005