Hi all,

I am proud to announce the new release of Gilead library (http://gilead.sourceforge.net), previously known as Hibernate4GWT.

Gilead stands for Generic Light Entity Adapter

It permits you to send Hibernate entities (and especially the partially loaded ones) outside the JVM (GWT, Flex, Web-Services, ...) without pain, by taking care of uninitialized proxy and persistent collections for you.

No LazyInitialisationException. No DTO mapping. Just POJO and Domain Driven Design :) !

This release is a maintenance one, fixing half a dozen bugs, and providing many improvements (mainly on improving performances).

Hope this helps !
Bruno

Hi Bruno,

We are developing a large appliation and need to use hibernate along with GWT 1.6. I wanted to know if GILEAD is compatible with GWT 1.6. I am not able to integrate the HIbernate4GWT with my application as of now.

Thanks in Advance.

Evolving frameworks such as Gilead is just a proof that hibernate team should now be focusing on about the problems faced by using detached objects and not side stepping the problem by recommending the use of "extended persistence"; it's simply not fitting to the given circumstance such as in web services or any situation where the use of detached entities is inevitable.

I hope Gavin and Christian could see this "gap".

Hi all,

@Vishal : Gilead supports GWT 1.6, since RPC serialization has not changed since last major release (1.5). Note that I will publish a new sample application based on GWT 1.6 shortly (it is already available in project SVN trunk).

About detached objects issues, I agree that it would be the job of any ORM framework (TopLink, OpenJPA or DataNucleus _ used by Google AppEngine) to provide *real*, clean, POJOs, since they all suffer from enhancement and serialization hell.

It would probably save a lot of my spare time ;-)

Regards
Bruno