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I'm happy to announce the 5th developer snapshot of the IronJacamar 1.1 container, which implements the Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 specification.

One of the new features in 4.1 will be the addition of an actual API for loading entities by natural id. Yes previous versions had the ability to do natural id loading leveraging criteria queries, but that approach was very limiting. The new API will allow caching at both the Session and SessionFactory level in addition to providing a consistent API. The new approach has been made available for identifier based loading as well, again for consistency.

It has gone some time since I announced the last release of the Hibernate JPA Metamodel Generator. It is time to announce the release of version 1.2.0.CR1. Just as a reminder, JPA Metamodel Generator is an annotation processor which generates the canonical metamodel classes needed for using the strongly typed JPA 2 Criteria queries.

I am very proud to announce the very first alpha release of Weld 2. Weld is the reference implementation of Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI). In the 2.x series of Weld releases, we will be focusing on JSR-346 which is the next version (1.1) of the CDI specification.

A bit late, but better then never, in case you missed it - JUDCon is coming to India:

We tagged Hibernate Search 4.1.0.Alpha1, and artifacts are now ready to be downloaded. 4.1 is meant to mainly upgrade the core dependencies and will have a quick development cycle.

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Seam 3.1 Final.

The GitHub repo formerly named hibernate-core will be getting renamed after the 4.0.1 release today. Its new name will be hibernate-orm. The whys have been discussed over the past few weeks in the developer meetings, so I will not go into all that; see the meeting minutes if you are interested. I did, however, want to discuss the ramifications of this rename.