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Dan did a webinar yesterday looking at Java EE 6 and CDI, showing how it can be used to improve your application development.

Time to announce the 1.1.0.CR1 release for the Hibernate Metamodel Generator (hibernate-metamodelgen). In case you don't remember what this annotation processor does read this blog entry.

It's all in the title, we have released a new beta of Hibernate Search. This is primarily a consolidation release plus the move to Lucene 3.0. The main changes are:

Hibernate 4 (master branch on GitHub) has been switched to use Gradle for its builds. Mainly I just liked the alliteration of Git and Gradle... :)

The Hibernate team is proud to announce the release of 3.6.0.Final. Lot of stuff has been going on.

Yyou probably don't know it yet but Hibernate Core and Hibernate Validator source code is now on Git and Hibernate Search and co will likely follow very soon. There are various reasons for the move but to summarize it, life was not bad under SVN but it's really great under Git.

Weld Extensions is a portable library (licensed under the ASL 2) providing utilities and common functionality for CDI applications and libraries or frameworks based on CDI alike. We'll be using it as the base of Seam 3. It contains extensions to the core CDI programming model, typed logging (courtesy of JBoss Logging 3), managed resource loading and support for evaluating EL anywhere.