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Fresh back from JUDCon 2011:London, I quickly want to blog about my Hibernate OGM presentation. For the impatient, all the code and the presentation itself is available on GitHub - ogm-kitchensink. The README.md gets you started with building, testing and deploying the code. Deployment is possible into a local JBoss AS 7 instance as well as into OpenShift Express.

I'm happy to announce the 3rd developer snapshot of the IronJacamar 1.1 series.

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR5 has just been released.

Hibernate Core 3.6.8.Final is a maintenance release with some bugfixes and improvements:

As per usual, let's get the links out of the way first:

As promised, we finally put our OpenBlend 2011 photos online. You can see them here:

It’s more than a week since I returned home from this year’s JavaOne, hence it’s probably high time I put down a few words on what was going on there.

I had the pleasure of gabbing about JBoss Modules a couple times at the Red Hat/JBoss booth at JavaOne this year, drawing frankly more interest than I thought I'd see. As a part of my talk (the video for which you can download here [well, soon anyway]), I chatted a bit about what the future may hold for Java in terms of modular runtime, modular development lifecycle, and distribution management. Some things seem certain - that the current paradigm won't hold, for example - and some are very uncertain - such as what, if anything, will replace Maven as the ubiquitous modular build/distribution system of the future.