The Hibernate team is please to announce Hibernate EntityManager 3.1beta6 and Hibernate Annotations 3.1beta8, a compliant implementation of the latest and greatest EJB3 Proposed Final Draft.
What's new in the spec and in Hibernate's implementation:
- cleaner way to persist enums
- enhancement round queries including support for scalar and composite primary keys in native queries
- implicit entity access type depending on the @Id annotation position
- callbacks and entity listeners inheritance in an entity hierarchy
- more natural annotation design (better separation of concern for some features)
- possibility to have mapped superclasses or even non mapped superclasses in between two entities in the hierarchy
- support for long conversation programmatic model
- enhanced locking API
- multiple persistence unit declaration per jar file
- possibility to disable entities autodiscovery in jar files
- .par extension no longer needed
