RELEASES
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- Slide 1.0.x: The only *real* Slide release. As a matter of fact no longer supported.
- Slide 2.0: Yet to come. A beta is scheduled for late January 2004. Have a look at the release plan.
- Slide 2.1: Will change some interfaces, but still will be a minor release as it will be compatible to 2.0

BRANCHES
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- SLIDE_1_0: The Slide 1.0 release branch. Inactiv!


JDK SUPPORT
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- Slide requires 1.3 , 1.4 recommended
- ANT 1.5 will be needed for the source build


STUFF IN THE PIPELINE FOR 2.0
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- docs
- source structure

STUFF IN THE PIPELINE FOR 2.(x>0)
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Oliver / Christophe
- Port of J2EE store to Oracle

Stefano / Christophe
- Further DASL support

Peter
- DeltaV advanced features

Oliver
- Request tunneling to RDBMS stores
- Augment isolation for kernel level caching
- Port of J2EE store to DB2

STORES
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- Slide 2.0 will feature two fully transactional stores and a fully 
transactional cache operable with both stores.
- The default store will be the tx file store as it requires no 
additional installations.