Hi Anirudh, SHARDS is not actively maintained. Still it's open source and this could be revived with enough interest and contributions; If you think you can help I'd suggest to address your comments to the Hibernate-dev mailinst list:

http://www.hibernate.org/community/mailinglists

I know for sure most of those interested in Shards are currently on vacations, I guess you'd be better of waiting for ~10 days.

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