Hibernate Shards 3.0.0.Beta2 released The Hibernate Shards team is pleased to announce the availability of Hibernate Shards 3.0.0.Beta2. The most significant improvements in this release are: * Support for Hibernate Annotations * Fewer gaps in the sharded implementations of Session and Criteria (Session is almost completely supported in fact) * More flexible configuration (no longer necessary to construct a prototype Configuration object) Please visit http://shards.hibernate.org for more information. Max (on behalf of the Hibernate Shards team)