[hibernate-announce] Hibernate Core 3.3.0.CR1

The Hibernate team is pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Core 3.3.0.CR1. This release features: * a redesign of the "second level cache" SPI * a new integration with JBossCache 2.x taking full advantage of this new SPI (special thanks to Brian Stansberry for his help and hard work on this) * introduction of the org.hibernate.jdbc.Work API for performing JDBC work without interfering with connection release modes Another change in this release from previous releases is the switch Maven, which has a few implications for users. The biggest is the splitting of the project into what Maven terms modules. Essentially we utilized modules for isolating optional features sets. For example, there is a module for the integration of JBoss Cache 2.x as the "second level cache". In terms of users, that means that there is a separate jar defining that integration. But also, for those using Maven or another library which understands its notion of transitive dependencies, the specific dependencies of JBoss Cache 2.x are isolated to just that module. The Maven artifacts are deployed to the JBoss Maven repository (http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 ) under the groupId of org.hibernate. The main artifactId is hibernate-core. Over the next few days we will be writing up some descriptions for the web site describing the various modules/ artifactIds and the purpose of each. For those not using Maven, we do still build a dist for upload to SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40712&package_i... There have been a few issues identified with the SourceForge bundles. They have all been pretty minor and none code related. The issue with the biggest impact is probably the fact that a few dependencies are missing from the bundles. We have identified jta.jar, javaassist and cglib (and its asm deps). These will be corrected for another CR and eventual GA. ----------------------------- Steve Ebersole Project Lead http://hibernate.org steve(a)hibernate.org