Hibernate version:
3.0rc1

Hi,

We plan to host Hibernate for our web applications in our propritery application server. Besides exposing Hibernate, we are building a layer on top of it to provide CRUD operations for SessionFactory creation, versioned object, and auditing.

Hibernate.jar will be placed in the server
I don't know why JBoss needs this, as suppose to placing hibernate.jar in each web application's web-inf/lib. If we place the hibernate.jar in the server, whenever the server's hibernate.jar gets upgraded, the webapps are forced to migrate.

A SessionFactory created for each web application
We want to load the hibernate mappings for each web application as they are deployed into the web server. Since SessionFactory can only be configured once, it looks to me this is the way to provide flexibility of deployment

Thanks!

Theen-Theen