Toplink 11g

Question

Hello All,
I'm a novice with JEE development and DB persistence and have some basic questions about Toplink 11g. Are there any EJB3.0/JPA tutorials for this release? I tried running through the 10g tutorial using JDev 11g (and therefore Toplink 11g) but ran into a few problems. I don't think that's really what I want anyway because I want to see how JPA has been incorporated into the new release, particularly, what will Workbench provide. From what I understand of the 10g release, and correct me if I'm wrong, Workbench will graphically allow the developer to map their object model to their database schema. The output from doing that mapping is the project.xml file which is used at runtime. If using JPA and code annotations, what does Workbench do for you? Is the product of the object/table mapping task an updated set of annotated source files? Assuming this is how it works, how does Workbench tie into the development process if not using JDeveloper? If using some other IDE, like JBuilder or Eclipse, would you design and develop your code using your chosen IDE, import the source into Workbench, do the mappings and produce the updated source files, and then check those source files into configuration control to be used for the next round of code modifications. I hope these questions make sense to people.
On a related note, is there a production release date known for Toplink 11g? I assume that's the time when we'll see updated documentation and more support (tutorials, FAQs, HowTos, etc). Without knowing this date, it makes it difficult to choose Toplink as the ORM tool in any serious project development that wants to use an EJB3.0/JPA architecture.
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Yes. TopLink and EclipseLink support any database with a compliant JDBC driver. We have extended platform support for several database platforms including Oracle 10g.
-- James : http://www.eclipselink.org