[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Annotations, EntityManager and Validator compatible with Core 3.3.x

[Emmanuel Bernard]

The Hibernate team is pleased to announce the synchronized release of:
  - Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0 CR1
  - Hibernate EntityManager 3.4.0 CR1
  - Hibernate Validator 3.1.0 CR1
  - Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.1.0 CR1

These release primarily ensure compatibility with the new Hibernate  
Core 3.3

Aside from the compatibility, noticeable work are:
  - Maven POM distributed and deployed at http://repository.jboss.org/maven2
  - the logging facade is now SLF4J (aligned with Hibernate Core)
  - the build system no longer rely on relative directory structures  
(especially we no longer need the hibernate-3.2 directory): all  
dependencies are downloaded from http://repository.jboss.org/maven2

Hibernate Search 3.1.x will also target Hibernate Core 3.3

There will probably be a CR2 fixing a couple of bugs, cleaning up  
backward compatible code and updating the documentation.

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