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Quite a few folks have asked about the new Hibernate Core modules introduced with the 3.3 release: what each is for, when to use which, etc. I wanted to take a bit to describe what each of the main modules is for and when/how you would use certain combinations. (These modules also define maven artifacts; all Hibernate Core artifacts use org.hibernate groupId).

Hibernate Core 3.3.1 has just been released with its artifacts published to the JBoss Maven Repository. This release fixed a serious issue with CurrentSessionContext (SessionFactory.getCurrentSession()) when running on IBM WebSphere. It also includes quite a few improvements to the enhanced id generators. For details about all the changes in this release, check out it's changelog

I've written a new article describing how to integrate Seam Security with OpenLDAP, using the new features in Seam 2.1.0. You can read the article here. Comments are welcome here, enjoy.

I will be talking about JBoss Tools and Developer Studio at JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark 28th September. You should also be able to catch me hanging out at the JBoss/Red Hat booth Monday to Wednesday.

Last month we released GA versions of Hibernate Annotations and EntityManager, but only a CR for Validator. This has changed of today with the release of Validator 3.1.0.GA.

Then you should attend this webinar - I'll spend about 40 minutes introducing some of the key ideas behind Seam (contexts, Seam managed persistence contexts and transactions, validation, navigation) and then they'll be 20 minutes for questions. The webinar is on Thursday, 18th September, at 10:00 East Coast US (or everywhere else for us international types).

I'm pleased to announce the release of Seam 2.1.0.BETA1.

It's been a while since I wrote about JSF, but over the past few weeks I've been working hard on JSF 2, trying to bring some of the lessons we learnt in Seam back to the expert group. Invariably, this leads to an improvement of the idea, as we've all had to solve the same problems, often with slightly varying solutions.

Today we are releasing JBoss Tools 3 Alpha1!