Release Update - Moved to EMFT: builds and support

Hi,
Elver persistency has now been moved to EMFT as the Teneo project. The first Teneo build is 
available here:
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/emft/downloads/?proj=teneo

 From now on there will be builds on a regular (probably weekly) basis.

The elver.org update site has been disabled, the new update site is:
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/emft/updates/site-interim.xml

Support is from now only given on the EMFT newsgroup:
news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.technology.emft

The Elver mailinglist is discontinued (gmane archive remains available)

The documentation for Teneo will remain on the elver.org website (for a while atleast).

Summary of the changes in the Teneo build:
- We have changed the way annotations can be specified, in our view the syntax was to verbose. There
are now two new ways of specifying jpa annotations: 1) Java style annotations in the model itself
(in the EAnnotations), 2) XML: annotations can be specified in a separate xml document. The previous
syntax will be phased out in the coming releases.
- Support for a few extra annotations has been added.
- Solved a few bugs.
- Teneo is only tested with the Callisto release and for EMF 2.2. Eclipse 3.1 and emf 2.1 are not
supported anymore but may work.
- Support for jpox has been upgraded to 1.1.1. We will look at 1.1.2 the coming weeks.
- Package names have changed from org.elver.store.jpox/org.elver.store.hibernate to
org.eclipse.emf.teneo.jpox and org.eclipse.emf.teneo.hibernate.
- The buddypolicy of the plugins has changed so it is not necessary anymore to set a
Eclipse-RegisterBuddy in your model plugin.
- The hibernate and jpox libraries are not included anymore in the download. You have to download
these jars separately. A common approach is to place these jars in a separate plugin, note that you 
need to set the eclipse buddypolicy in the Manifest.MF of this separate plugin, for example
Eclipse-BuddyPolicy: dependent

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