add (current_)date and concat functions
diff --git a/extensions/trunk/org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.maxdb/src/org/eclipse/persistence/extensions/platform/database/MaxDBPlatform.java b/extensions/trunk/org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.maxdb/src/org/eclipse/persistence/extensions/platform/database/MaxDBPlatform.java
index f87cd4c..48fb9d0 100644
--- a/extensions/trunk/org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.maxdb/src/org/eclipse/persistence/extensions/platform/database/MaxDBPlatform.java
+++ b/extensions/trunk/org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.maxdb/src/org/eclipse/persistence/extensions/platform/database/MaxDBPlatform.java
@@ -104,30 +104,31 @@
     protected final void initializePlatformOperators() {

         super.initializePlatformOperators();

         this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createConcatExpressionOperator());

-        this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createTrim2ExpressionOperator());

-        //this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createEqualOuterJoinOperator());

+        this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createTrim2ExpressionOperator());        

         this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createToNumberOperator());

         this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createNullifOperator());

         this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createCoalesceOperator());

+        this.addOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createTodayExpressionOperator());

         this.addNonBindingOperator(MaxDBPlatform.createNullValueOperator());

     }

     

-    private static final ExpressionOperator createConcatExpressionOperator() { // not checked

-        return ExpressionOperator.simpleTwoArgumentFunction(ExpressionOperator.Concat, "CONCAT");

+    private static final ExpressionOperator createConcatExpressionOperator() {

+        return ExpressionOperator.simpleLogicalNoParens(ExpressionOperator.Concat, "||");

     }

-

-    private static final ExpressionOperator createTrim2ExpressionOperator() { // not checked

+    

+    private static final ExpressionOperator createTodayExpressionOperator() {

+        return ExpressionOperator.simpleLogicalNoParens(ExpressionOperator.Today, "DATE");

+    }        

+    

+    private static final ExpressionOperator createTrim2ExpressionOperator() { 

         return ExpressionOperator.simpleTwoArgumentFunction(ExpressionOperator.Trim2, "TRIM");

     }

 

-    //private static final ExpressionOperator createEqualOuterJoinOperator() {

-    //    return ExpressionOperator.simpleRelation(ExpressionOperator.EqualOuterJoin, "(+)=");

-    //}

-

     private static final ExpressionOperator createNullValueOperator() {

         return ExpressionOperator.simpleTwoArgumentFunction(ExpressionOperator.Nvl, "VALUE");

     }

     

+    /* see bug 316774 */

     private static final ExpressionOperator createCoalesceOperator() {

         ListExpressionOperator operator = (ListExpressionOperator) ExpressionOperator.coalesce();

         operator.setStartString("VALUE(");

@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@
         return new ValueReadQuery("SELECT " + this.getQualifiedSequenceName(sequenceName) + ".NEXTVAL FROM DUAL");

     }

 

-    // not checked starts here Andreas <°)))><

+    // not checked starts here; Andreas <°)))><

     

     @Override

     protected final String getCreateTempTableSqlBodyForTable(final DatabaseTable table) {

@@ -196,11 +197,7 @@
         return new DatabaseTable("$" + table.getName(), "TEMP");

     }

 

-    

-

-    /**************

-     * @Override This will only qualify as an override when isMaxDB appears in DatabasePlatform

-     ***************/

+    @Override     

     public final boolean isMaxDB() {

         return true;

     }

@@ -242,6 +239,11 @@
     public final boolean supportsNativeSequenceNumbers() {

         return true;

     }

+    

+    @Override

+    public boolean supportsSequenceObjects() {

+        return true;

+    }

 

     @Override

     public final boolean supportsStoredFunctions() {