Hello,

I am pleased to announce the new release of Gilead (http://gilead.sourceforge.net), an open-source framework to seamlessly integrate Hibernate with GWT, Flex or any serialization process.

This new release brings many new features. Among others :
-Predefined remote services, for both GWT and Flex :
* Loading service allows you to load an entity or a lazy association from the client side,
* Request service brings the ability to execute a HQL request directly from the client side,
- A new specific transport annotation (@LimitedAccess) to implement custom access to entity fields (for example role based). It is useful to prevent sending sensitive information over the wire.
- Lazy property checking on client side, to know if a null association on client side was already null on server or just lazy but not loaded (and thus replaced with null by Gilead)
- A ConfigurationHelper class, to limit Gilead configuration to one line of code

A specific effort has also been made to improve performances and GWT serialization.
Finally, this release also fixes many issues, reported since 1.2.3, especially on persistent collections.

Hope this helps
Bruno