The Torque team is pleased to announce the 3.0 release! http://db.apache.org/torque/ Torque is a persistence layer. Torque generates all database-related resources used by most applications (SQL scripts and Java object model/persistance mapping classes) required by your application. It includes a runtime environment to run the generated classes. Torque was developed as part of the Turbine Framework, but has been decoupled and can be used separately. You can find a full list of changes here: http://db.apache.org/torque/changes.html You can find the Torque distributions here: http://db.apache.org/builds/db-torque/release/