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This is a summary of the changes needed for CSF to upgrade from Hibernate 3.2.5 to 3.6.10.

In brief, the changes are minimal:

1. POM references:
   1. hibernate artifact, v 3.2.5ga -> hibernate-core artifact v 3.6.10.Final
   2. ehcache artifact v 1.2.3 -> ehcache-core artifact 2.4.3
   3. javassist dependency now has default scope (was test)
2. Spring Context changes:
   1. All references to

      Code Block
      <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider</prop>

      replaced by

      Code Block
      <prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop>

3. Hibernate Mapping file changes
   1. All hbm.xml files have had the DTD URL changed:

      Code Block
      http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd

      is replaced by

      Code Block
      http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd

4. Java Code changes:
   1. NonSubjectAcademicCredit: id changed from String to Long
   2. CourseOptionUserType: Changes in nullSafeGet and nullSafeSet methods due to deprecated Hibernate features.
   3. TestHibernateCourseDao: Expanded to cover changes in CourseOptionUserType
   4. AbstractLabeledEnumUserType: Changes in persistentType method due to deprecated Hibernate features.
   5. HibernateEvaluationSubjectGroupDao and HibernateEvaluationResponseDao: Changes in use of DistinctRootEntityResultTransformer due to Hibernate change.

\[Obsolete, but gives an indication of what the changes were: Full set of diffs for the changes are [here|^csf-hibernate-diffs.txt]\]

Update: iap-csf upgraded 1/17/13. Patch file here.