
What are the new features in hibernate 4, which is recently released and available for development and deployment of enterprise web applications.

Here are the list of new features in hibernate 4:
Hibernate core now allows to multi-tenancies in three different ways. These are Separate database instances, Separate schemas and Partitioning
The ServiceRegistry API is also introduced in the new version of Hibernate Core 4.
JDK 1.6 (JDBC 4) as baseline
Improved Met-model
Introduction of new services
Read more at What's New In Hibernate 4.0 release.
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