databene benerator

This is a maintenance release that fixes critical bugs for Windows systems as well as for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Features were added for processing CSV files without header row. All users who are using release 0.6.4 are strongly encouranged to upgrade.

This release adds major enhancements to Benerator's functionality: The transcoding feature enables a user to transfer full or partial table content from one database to another, reassigning and transforming foreign keys. DB Sanity enables Benerator to check pre- and post-conditions in a database. As minor improvements, database metadata handling performance has been increased, and several technical and domain components have been added, extended, or improved. All known bugs have been fixed and the manual has been corrected, updated, and completed.

This release introduces several convenience features like monitoring Benerator execution via JMX, support for new literal forms of distributions, acceptance of unknown database column types, new helper classes for defining custom generators, more convenient cache size handling, and exporting of data to different database tables at the same time. Several bugs have been fixed.

This is primarily a bugfix release. A small enhancement is the support of Oracle's NVARCHAR and NCHAR types.

This release mainly is a bugfix release and improves user convenience in several details. Descriptive array generation has been introduced for simplifying programmatic access to Benerator for test data generation in other programs, such as feed4testng.