Remove native support for Hibernate 3.6 and 4.x [SPR-13827]

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Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-13827 and commented

Along with #18060, let's remove our orm.hibernate3 and orm.hibernate4 packages and also upgrade our HibernateJpaVendorAdapter accordingly.

Even at this point (end of 2015), Hibernate 5.x is the only actively maintained branch. By early 2017, Hibernate 4.x will only be found in legacy JBoss EAP environments.

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Issue Links:

• Deprecate Hibernate 3 support [SPR-13230] #17821 Deprecate Hibernate 3 support
• Upgrade to JPA 2.1+ and Bean Validation 1.1+ [SPR-13481] #18060 Upgrade to JPA 2.1+ and Bean Validation 1.1+
• Require EhCache 2.10+ / 3.0 GA [SPR-13794] #18367 Require EhCache 2.10+ / 3.0 GA
• Database.SQL_SERVER should set more recent Hibernate dialect with Spring 4.3.x [SPR-15255] #19820 Database.SQL_SERVER should set more recent Hibernate dialect with Spring 4.3.x
• Drop JDO support [SPR-14130] #18702 Drop JDO support
• Drop NativeJdbcExtractor mechanism in favor of java.sql.Connection.unwrap() [SPR-14670] #19234 Drop NativeJdbcExtractor mechanism in favor of java.sql.Connection.unwrap()

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Juergen Hoeller commented

It would be helpful to upgrade to Hibernate 5.2+ right away, due to several API breakages there... However, since WildFly 10 / JBoss EAP 7 includes Hibernate 5.0.9 only and is not likely to upgrade to 5.2, it seems worth supporting Hibernate 5.0+ even in Spring Framework 5.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

While only orm.hibernate5 stays around as of Spring 5.0, our JPA support - including HibernateJpaVendorAdapter and HibernateJpaDialect - remains compatible with Hibernate 4.3 (the minimum Hibernate release for JPA 2.1) for the time being.