I cleaned up the org.hibernate.classic package last night, including removing o.h.classic.Session, o.h.classic.Validatable and o.h.classic.ValidationException. I ran into trouble with o.h.classic.Lifecycle because tests in the org.hibernate.test.legacy package make pretty extensive (and sometimes extremely odd) use of it. Which leads to an ugly choice with regards to these tests. --- Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; http://hibernate.org