Chapter 20. What's new in DODS 6.6-1

This chapter lists the new or updated features associated with DODS 6.6-1.

- jTDS driver (MS SQL Server 2000) version 1.2 is included in DODS release.

- Sequoia 2.5 jdbc driver is included in DODS release.

- JOTM 2.0.10 integrated in this DODS release.

- Added support for Microsoft JDBC driver for SQL server 2005.

- DODS generator also creates file with stored procedures and database functions which return next available oid. Currently supported for MSQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

- Added support for "lazy oid allocation" feature in dods.

- Added support for "oid-per-table" feature in dods.

- Added support for "identity columns" feature in dods.

- Added "ConnectionAllocateCheckSql" parameter, used to validate connections from connection pool, just before returning them.

- Added patch for data source "DisableConnectionPool" parameter.

- Added "UsePrefixWithUpdate" parameter,tell DODS to use full column name ( with table name prefix ) or just column name, during QueryBuilder.addUpdateColumn(RDBColumn column, Object value) method call.

- Added support for jTDS driver (MS SQL Server 2000)

- Added PreparedStatement Cache for all PreparedStatements (including Select/Query).

- Patch for oracle problem with "to many open cursors".

- Added driver specific "PrepareStatementCacheLatency" parameter to patch problem with PreparedStatementCache and msjdbc driver.

- Documentation update, added "ConnectionAllocateCheckSql", "UsePrefixWithUpdate", "AllocationScope", "DriverDependenciesClass" and "ObjectIdAllocationSource" parameters description.

- Documentation update, added chapters "Using database generated identity columns in DODS" and "Using OID per Table feature in DODS".