Rob Bygrave

Discussion point - Buffer recycling on readBuffer but not writeBuffer (maybe)

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I could be wrong or low on caffeine but it looks to me like there is effective buffer recycling with `readBuffer` but not with `writeBuffer` at the moment? Am I...

Change the getter methods to use accessor style

Migrate Ebean to use of JDK System.Logger (make SLF4J-API an optional dependency)

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In case people are unaware Java 9 introduced **`System.Logger`**. Ebean and all its dependencies (ebean-datasource, avaje-config, avaje classpath-scanner etc) have been using **`slf4j-api`** and that has been the good and...

Normally `@Entity` beans can not extend another `@Entity` bean without using the inheritance annotations and discriminator column. What this is about is allowing an `@Entity` bean to extend another `@Entity`....

JSON - Long term view of moving away from Jackson to avaje-jsonb (my json library)

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I believe longer term we will move away from using Jackson for JSON parsing and generation for the reasons of - weight, speed and security. - Weight - Jackson-databind weights...

Move Joda time support into separate optional module

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Joda types have been superseded by the types in `java.time`. That means, people should be migrating off from using Joda types to using `java.time` types. As such, we should look...

Proposal: Always use JSON String format for Date/DateTime. Remove formatting as millis and nanos.

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## Proposal Remove the support for JSON formatting Date as millis and DateTime as millis or nanos. This means that all Dates and DateTime types would be formatted in JSON...

Also remove h2sqldb in favour of always using H2 This feature is expected to only be used by older Ebean users with DB2 and Oracle with sequences as `increment by...

Improve the documentation at: https://ebean.io/docs/monitoring/ - metrics collection including dumpMetricsOnShutdown - labels - profile location - query plan collection - metrics reporting - CollectD, Avaje metrics

Update the documentation in: https://ebean.io/docs/persist/ ... document the differences and uses for `update` vs `stateless update` vs `merge`