What’s New in This Guide

The following topics introduce the new and changed features of Oracle TopLink and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information. 

New and Changed Features for 14c (14.1.1.0.0)

Oracle TopLink 14c (14.1.1.0.0) supports the following JPA 2.2 features:
  • JPA 2.2 supports @Repeatable annotation, which simplifies your entity mappings. See Using Repeatable Annotations.
  • You can now retrieve the result of your query as a stream and move through a result set more efficiently. See Streaming a Query Result.
  • TopLink supports CDI injection into the AttributeConverter classes which allows you to inject reusable conversion implementation into the AttributeConverter. See Allowing AttributeConverters to be CDI Injectable.
  • All JPA annotations can now be used in meta-annotations.
  • JPA 2.2 supports date-time API java.time containing the following classes:
    • java.time.LocalDate
    • java.time.LocalTime
    • java.time.LocalDateTime
    • java.time.OffsetTime
    • java.time.OffsetDateTime

    See Date and Time Entities.