Hi Brett. I haven't used Hibernate for a while, but I didn't know that the Criteria API was deprecated. Could you please provide a reference of the deprecation? What is the proposed alternative?

The manual still has a chapter on Criteria queries,
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/manual/en-US/html_single/#querycriteria

I couldn't find notes or Deprecated annotation in the JavaDocs.
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/javadocs/org/hibernate/Criteria.html
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/javadocs/org/hibernate/criterion/DetachedCriteria.html

Are there plans to update the documentation?