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Member of the Hibernate team.
Founder of Hibernate Search, Hibernate OGM, Hibernate Validator, Les Cast Codeurs, JBoss Asylum. Lead the JPA implementation of Hibernate ORM.
Data platform architect for the JBoss portfolio at Red Hat. Particularly involved in the Hibernate portfolio as well as Infinispan.
Spec lead of Bean Validation and JPA expert group member.
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FindBugs(tm) actually does it
I heard about FindBugs(tm) while listening to one of the Java Posse podcast. Since Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager are very close to their respective final releases, I decided to give it a shot.
I've seen lot's of people writing (or using) third party abstraction frameworks on top of ORM solutions like Hibernate so that they can potentially get rid of one ORM engine to another (or even an other technology). Such frameworks are even considered by some architectsas a must-have.
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.
Hibernate 3.1.1 released
Hibernate 3.1.1 has been released earlier this week. This maintenance release focused on bugfixes and improvements, especially regarding:
par-tition your application
Packaging has always been a manual operation in ORM world. In Hibernate, you have to list the mapped entities either through the configuration API or through the hibernate.cfg.xml file. For a while now, JBoss AS has introduced the notion of .har, basically an archive scanned by the deployer to discover the Hibernate configuration and the hbm.xml files in it.
New releases of both Hibernate Entity Manager and Hibernate Annotations are available.
Hibernate Annotations alpha1
We just released the brand new Hibernate Annotations module as an alpha version. This module provides the Hibernate facilities to declare Hibernate O/R mapping metadata through JDK 5.0 metadata annotations (instead of XML mapping files or XDoclet preprocessing). We have implemented the EJB3 (JSR-220) O/R metadata annotations defined in the early draft 1 of the spec. This set of annotations covers all common mappings cases.
It happens sometimes that a domain model objet dettached from a previous session needs/can be reattached without trigging an UPDATE (whether it has optimistic locking or not). Hibernate supports this kind of feature by providing:
Maybe you haven't noticed, but every single piece of information on JDK 1.5 Metadata Annotations is nothing but a simple /Hello World/ tutorial (of course, I exclude the specification). There is no real world implementation. This is especially true for codes processing the annotations. I'll call such an application an annotation reader.
