[not sure if non-members can post to hibernate-dev, if this doesn't make it to the list can someone please forward it?] Sorry for the long delay, Google sucked my time away and I'm not sure what happened to Juozas. Version 2.2 uses ASM 3.1 and fixes a recently discovered thread safety bug. Steve wrote: > Our (default) dependency on CGLIB is starting to cause problems due > to > other libraries using newer versions of ASM (3.x) then the released > versions of CGLIB use (2.x). We have now been waiting about a year > for a new CGLIB release to use these newer ASM APIs. With 3.3 being > eminent, we need to rectify this situation. FWIW, no one told me you were waiting for a CGLIB release--that probably would have been a good idea. Also, the "nodep" version which embeds ASM was created specifically to avoid ASM dependency issues. Chris