Are the package names for hibernate going to be changing to org.hibernate.xxx from net.sf.hibernate???

Obviously.

Sorry for the obvious post...just in the past few major versions the packages names keep changing.

No, they didn't, this is the first time.

This will be the only the second time they have changed and it is Major release. I would always expect some form porting involved. Last time we supplied some scripts to help convert the package names. No doubt that will happen again this time. I would expect the base package name to be stable from this point on.

When was the first time?

All of you: having new package names means you can run Hibernate2 and Hibernate3 in parallel, which is very very nice for most people.

I tried to find an old archive to confirm but Hibernate 1.x was cirrus.* and we converted to sf on release of hibernate 2.0.

I agree it is good that users can have both libs if appropriate (and depended libraries don't clash).

Oh yes, cirrus.*. That has been awhile :)