What's new in Hibernate 4?

Question

I just saw that a beta of Hibernate 4 was released. What\'s new in 4 compared to 3(.6)? I couldn\'t find this info in the beta announcement, nor when Googling the title of t

Answer 1

New features that are introduced in Hibernate core 4.0 releases are as follows:

• Provide support for initial multi-tenancy

• Introduces a ServiceRegistry.

• Clean up of Session opening from SessionFactory.

• Using org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator made integration and auto discovery more desirable.

• Improve to work with i18n and message codes.

• Clean up of deprecated interfaces, methods, etc.