What, another release already? Yep, we’re releasing another version of the grails hibernate events plugin.  Well, obviously I wasn’t paying attention in grails/hibernate class and it turns out that while it requires a hibernate.cfg.xml to participate in the creation of the SessionFactory, you can still programmatically add event listeners to the SessionFactory after its been created. Big ups to Burt Beckwith for the tip (who, judging by the grails mailing list alone, has every api under the sun memorized!). So here is the hibernate events plugin sans hibernate.cfg.xml:

http://thegioraproject.com/files/grails/plugins/grails-hibernate-events-0.2.zip

And again, any feedback is much appreciated.