Facets Release Roadmap

This document lists the features, enhancements and improvements that are planned to be included over the next several Facets releases. This isn't cast in stone - features may be added, removed or rescheduled as GemStone sees fit.

Facets 3.0.1 Released March 2006

• Performance improvements to upgrade/conversion process
• Increased per stone session limit to 5000
• JDK 1.4.2_08 update
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Facets 4.0 Released June 2006

• Quality improvements to Distributed Shared Page Cache functionality
• Parallel Epoch Garbage Collection
• Optimizations to online Dead Object Reclamation
• Support for JBoss 4.x
• Support for WebLogic 8.1
• Documentation improvements
• Deprecation of JDO 1.0 API's

Facets 4.1

• Performance and improvements to Distributed Shared Page Cache functionality
• Completion of Object Reclamation Optimizations
• Support for additional Application Servers
• Additional Documentation
• Additional Examples

Planned for 2007

• Update to Java SE 6.0
• Linux 64 bit
• 64 bit Object addressing
• Increased XML capabilities
• JMX management tools
• Improved testing and integration support for various open source solutions (Axis, others TBD)
• Transformation performance improvements/enhancements
• Query service improvements/enhancements
• Other administrative improvements
• Support for open source contributions (Facets Portal)
• Open sourcing of selected portions of product