jOOQ Newsletter October 10, 2013

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jOOQ 3.2 Released

After a bit of time, jOOQ 3.2 has finally been released. This interesting release mainly includes two new SPIs (Service Provider Interfaces), which allow for:

• Injecting pre and post CRUD operation behaviour, which is useful for global ID generators.
• Injecting behaviour into the SQL rendering lifecycle allowing for arbitrary SQL transformations. This is very useful for things like shared-schema multi-tenancy.

Besides, the code generator has seen lots of improvements. More details can be seen in the release notes.

jOOQ Licensing and Support

With the new jOOQ 3.2, apart from introducing great new features, we are changing quite a few things on how we operate. At Data Geekery GmbH, we believe in Open Source. But we also believe in the creative power enabled by commercial software. This is why we have chosen to implement a dual-licensing strategy. Read more about this strategy here:

http://blog.jooq.org/2013/10/09/jooq-3-2-offering-commercial-licensing-and-support

SQL2jOOQ

A very interesting open source tool is being developed by a third-party vendor called GUDU Soft in cooperation with Data Geekery: SQL2jOOQ. This tool is based on GUDU Soft’s SQL Parser application, which can parse a variety of text-based SQL strings, transform ASTs and render new dialects. One of these output dialects is jOOQ. For jOOQ developers migrating large amounts of legacy SQL to jOOQ, this will be an invaluable tool in the tool chain.

MongoDB and NoSQL Heat

MongoDB was in the news big time last week when they announced their recent raise of $150 million in a venture-funding round. While cynics claimed that they failed to write the transaction to disk, this is still a very important milestone for 10gen. After all, MongoDB is the only non-relational DBMS figuring in a quite objective top 10 rating considering 194 systems.

To SQL or not to SQL? Our take from the jOOQ perspective is clear. Any competitor in the market dominated by Oracle and SQL Server is good, even (or maybe because) it is a non-SQL vendor:

http://blog.jooq.org/2013/10/02/the-premature-return-to-sql/