Hi,

I am pleased to announce the release of ODB 1.1.0.

ODB is an open-source object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. It
allows you to persist C++ objects to a relational database without having
to deal with tables, columns, or SQL and without manually writing any of
the mapping code.

Major new features in this release:

* Support for storing containers in the database, for example:

#pragma db object
class person
{
...

std::set<std::string> emails_;
};

* Support for unidirectional and bidirectional object relationships,
including lazy loading. For example:

#pragma db object
class employer
{
...

#pragma db inverse(employer_)
std::vector<lazy_weak_ptr<employee> > employees_;
};

#pragma db object
class employee
{
...

shared_ptr<employer> employer_;
};

* Support for composite value types, for example:

#pragma db value
class name
{
...

std::string first_;
std::string last_;
};

#pragma db object
class person
{
...

name name_;
};

* Support for optional object cache (session).

* Support for native SQL statement execution.

* Support for customization of object pointers that allows you to
use smart pointers to return, pass, and cache persistent objects.

A more detailed discussion of the major new features can be found in
the following blog post:

http://www.codesynthesis.com/~boris/...-1-0-released/

For the complete list of new features in this version see the official
release announcement:

http://www.codesynthesis.com/piperma...11/000001.html

ODB is written in portable C++ and you should be able to use it with any
modern C++ compiler. In particular, we have tested this release on GNU/Linux
(x86/x86-64), Windows (x86/x86-64), Mac OS X, and Solaris (x86/x86-64/SPARC)
with GNU g++ 4.2.x-4.5.x, MS Visual C++ 2008 and 2010, and Sun Studio 12.

More information, documentation, source code, and pre-compiled binaries are
available from:

http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/

Enjoy,
Boris