Please use the google group to ask questions - thanks.

Well, the current plan is to get some feedback to see if people really want this.

I suspect that some will, and really it is really in Ebean this would just be a way of builiding a FindByPredicates object using EJBQL sytax.

If you really want this feature then please let me know.

Thanks, Rob.

BTW: I am now pretty convinced I need to support JPA QL. As Alex pointed out, this would make it easy for people to use Ebean or JPA in a DAO pattern.

Initially the plan would be to support simpler JPA Queries and work on the aggregate type queries later. Anyway, I'll get onto this shortly.

If you have any opinions on this I'd still like to hear them - thanks, Rob.

There are various reasons why I created a separate query language first. Mostly to support partial object queries. It will be interesting to see where JPA 2.0 goes with query support for partial objects.