Over 70 IT developers from across Dublin joined Verkom in The Westin for an intriguing presentation by Emmanuel Bernard on the current state of Hibernate and what is coming up from Hibernate over the coming 12 months. Emmanuel presented for nearly an hour and then opened questions to the floor. He walked attendees through state-of-the-art Hibernate technologies. While focusing on Hibernate Core, the presentation also covered Hibernate Annotations, Java Persistence with Hibernate, as well as, Hibernate Validator. The audience was able to see some of the new available features, as well as, what is cooking for the near future. About the Keynote Speaker: After graduating from Supelec (French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel has spent a few years in the retail industry where he started to be involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team 4 years ago and is now a core developer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. Emmanuel is the lead developer of Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager, two key projects on top of Hibernate core implementing the Java Persistence(tm) specification, as well as Hibernate Search and Validator. Emmanuel is a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group. He has been speaking about Hibernate and EJB 3.0 at various conferences such as JavaOne, JavaDays, Jazoon JBoss World, ECOOP, JAX Germany and various JUGs. | 