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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.

Hibernate 3.6.0.CR2 has mainly minor bug fixes with several improvements.

At JavaOne this year, I gave a more advanced presentation than usual on how to use Bean Validation. A few folks have asked me to share it and there it is.

Emmanuel mentioned in his previous Search post the new Statistics interface which is new in Hibernate search 3.3 (latest version 3.3.0.Beta1). I thought it is time to write a little bit more about it. The API is actually self-explanatory: