Upgrade EclipseLink from 2.7.10 to 2.7.12

[pepness]

Library Notes:

• This is mainly a maintenance release and contains bug fixes

NetBeans Testing:

• Full build done
• Verify successful execution of libraries and licenses Ant test
• Verify successful execution of unit tests for modules websvc.restlib, j2ee.eclipselink, j2ee.eclipselinkmodelgen, j2ee.jpa.refactoring, j2ee.metadata.model.support, j2ee.persistence and j2ee.persistenceapi
• Started NetBeans and ensure the log didn't have any ERROR or new WARNINGS
• Checked the files are in the Ant Library Manager
• Successfully create project as per NetBeans Documentation, with MariaDB, TomEE 8 plus and GlassFish 5.1.0

EclipseLink Web Page
EclipseLink Release Notes

[tbw777]

why not 4.0.1 ?

[mbien]

looks good to me

[matthiasblaesing]

@tbw777

why not 4.0.1 ?

EclipseLink is the reference implementation of JPA. As part of the transition of JavaEE from Oracle to the Eclipse Foundation, the project had to change its name and someone (my gut feeling is lawyers/markting people) force the Eclipse Foundation to also change the package names. JavaEE got renamed to JakartaEE and building against recent versions are the libraries require users to switch from the javax to the jakarta based classes.

As long as we stay in the 2.X series for Eclipselink this is a save update, Eclipselink 4.X and newser need to be packaged as separate modules as I assume, we will see a long time of coexistence of JakarteEE 8 and JakartaEE 10+ (the former still in the javax packages, the latter in the jakarta package namespace).