diff --git a/documentation/devguide/pom.xml b/documentation/devguide/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..463a11c18e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/documentation/devguide/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+  ~
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2010, Red Hat Inc. or third-party contributors as
+  ~ indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution
+  ~ statements applied by the authors.  All third-party contributions are
+  ~ distributed under license by Red Hat Inc.
+  ~
+  ~ This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
+  ~ copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
+  ~ Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+  ~
+  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+  ~ or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  ~ for more details.
+  ~
+  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  ~ along with this distribution; if not, write to:
+  ~ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  ~ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
+  ~ Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+  -->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
+        <artifactId>hibernate-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>3.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <artifactId>devguide</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jdocbook</packaging>
+
+    <properties>
+        <!-- Skip artifact deployment -->
+        <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.jboss.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-jdocbook-plugin</artifactId>
+
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <!--
+                            here we are attaching the translate goal so that the translations are processed
+                            before compilation so that the translated XML is also transformed during
+                            generation
+                        -->
+                        <phase>process-resources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>translate</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+
+                <configuration>
+                    <sourceDocumentName>Hibernate_Getting_Started_Guide.xml</sourceDocumentName>
+                    <masterTranslation>en-US</masterTranslation>
+                    <translations>
+                        <translation>de-DE</translation>
+                        <translation>es-ES</translation>
+                        <translation>fr-FR</translation>
+                        <translation>ja-JP</translation>
+                        <!-- <translation>ko-KR</translation> -->
+                        <translation>pt-BR</translation>
+                        <translation>zh-CN</translation>
+                    </translations>
+                    <imageResource>
+                        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/docbook/en-US</directory>
+                        <excludes>
+                            <exclude>*.xml</exclude>
+                            <exclude>**/*.xml</exclude>
+                            <exclude>*.zargo</exclude>
+                            <exclude>**/*.zargo</exclude>
+                        </excludes>
+                    </imageResource>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Author_Group.xml b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Author_Group.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f3426898b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Author_Group.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
+<!--
+  ~ Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+  ~
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2010, Red Hat Inc. or third-party contributors as
+  ~ indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution
+  ~ statements applied by the authors.  All third-party contributions are
+  ~ distributed under license by Red Hat Inc.
+  ~
+  ~ This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
+  ~ copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
+  ~ Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+  ~
+  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+  ~ or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  ~ for more details.
+  ~
+  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  ~ along with this distribution; if not, write to:
+  ~ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  ~ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
+  ~ Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+  -->
+<!DOCTYPE authorgroup PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+]>
+<authorgroup>
+   <author>
+      <firstname>Gavin</firstname>
+      <surname>King</surname>
+   </author>
+   <author>
+      <firstname>Christian</firstname>
+      <surname>Bauer</surname>
+   </author>
+   <author>
+      <firstname>Max</firstname>
+      <othername>Rydahl</othername>
+      <surname>Andersen</surname>
+   </author>
+   <author>
+      <firstname>Emmanuel</firstname>
+      <surname>Bernard</surname>
+   </author>
+   <author>
+      <firstname>Steve</firstname>
+      <surname>Ebersole</surname>
+   </author>
+   <author>
+      <firstname>Hardy</firstname>
+      <surname>Ferentschik</surname>
+   </author>
+
+   <othercredit>
+      <firstname>James</firstname>
+      <surname>Cobb</surname>
+      <affiliation>
+         <shortaffil>Graphic Design</shortaffil>
+      </affiliation>
+   </othercredit>
+   <othercredit>
+      <firstname>Cheyenne</firstname>
+      <surname>Weaver</surname>
+      <affiliation>
+         <shortaffil>Graphic Design</shortaffil>
+      </affiliation>
+   </othercredit>
+
+    <!--
+        #######################################################################
+        # Spanish
+        #######################################################################
+    -->
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="es-ES">
+        <othername><![CDATA[Bernardo Antonio Buffa Colom&#x00e9]]></othername>
+        <email>kreimer@bbs.frc.utn.edu.ar</email>
+    </othercredit>
+
+    <!--
+        #######################################################################
+        # French
+        #######################################################################
+    -->
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Vincent</firstname>
+        <surname>Ricard</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Sebastien</firstname>
+        <surname>Cesbron</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Michael</firstname>
+        <surname>Courcy</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Vincent</firstname>
+        <surname>Giguère</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Baptiste</firstname>
+        <surname>Mathus</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Emmanuel</firstname>
+        <surname>Bernard</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="fr-FR">
+        <firstname>Anthony</firstname>
+        <surname>Patricio</surname>
+    </othercredit>
+
+    <!--
+        #######################################################################
+        # Portugese
+        #######################################################################
+    -->
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Alvaro</firstname>
+        <surname>Netto</surname>
+        <email>alvaronetto@cetip.com.br</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Anderson</firstname>
+        <surname>Braulio</surname>
+        <email>andersonbraulio@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Daniel Vieira</firstname>
+        <surname>Costa</surname>
+        <email>danielvc@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Francisco</firstname>
+        <surname>gamarra</surname>
+        <email>francisco.gamarra@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Gamarra</firstname>
+        <email>mauricio.gamarra@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Luiz Carlos</firstname>
+        <surname>Rodrigues</surname>
+        <email>luizcarlos_rodrigues@yahoo.com.br</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Marcel</firstname>
+        <surname>Castelo</surname>
+        <email>marcel.castelo@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Paulo</firstname>
+        <surname>César</surname>
+        <email>paulocol@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Pablo L.</firstname>
+        <surname>de Miranda</surname>
+        <email>pablolmiranda@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Renato</firstname>
+        <surname>Deggau</surname>
+        <email>rdeggau@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Rogério</firstname>
+        <surname>Araújo</surname>
+        <email>rgildoaraujo@yahoo.com.br</email>
+    </othercredit>
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="pt-BR">
+        <firstname>Wanderson</firstname>
+        <surname>Siqueira</surname>
+        <email>wandersonxs@gmail.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+
+    <!--
+        #######################################################################
+        # Chinese
+        #######################################################################
+    -->
+    <othercredit class="translator" lang="zh-CN">
+        <firstname>Cao</firstname>
+        <surname>Xiaogang</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+            <orgname>RedSaga</orgname>
+        </affiliation>
+        <contrib>Translation Lead</contrib>
+        <email>caoxg@yahoo.com</email>
+    </othercredit>
+
+</authorgroup>
diff --git a/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Book_Info.xml b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Book_Info.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6ad2a9579
--- /dev/null
+++ b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Book_Info.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
+<!--
+  ~ Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+  ~
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2010, Red Hat Inc. or third-party contributors as
+  ~ indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution
+  ~ statements applied by the authors.  All third-party contributions are
+  ~ distributed under license by Red Hat Inc.
+  ~
+  ~ This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
+  ~ copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
+  ~ Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+  ~
+  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+  ~ or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  ~ for more details.
+  ~
+  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+  ~ along with this distribution; if not, write to:
+  ~ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  ~ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
+  ~ Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+  -->
+<!DOCTYPE bookinfo PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "Hibernate_Developer_Guide.ent">
+%BOOK_ENTITIES;
+]>
+
+<bookinfo id="Hibernate_Developer_Guide">
+    <title>Hibernate Developer Guide</title>
+    <releaseinfo>&version;</releaseinfo>
+    <edition>1.0</edition>
+    <pubsnumber>1</pubsnumber>
+    <productname>JBoss Hibernate Core</productname>
+    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
+    <pubdate>&today;</pubdate>
+    <issuenum>1</issuenum>
+    <mediaobject>
+        <imageobject role="fo">
+            <imagedata fileref="images/hibernate_logo_a.png" align="center" />
+        </imageobject>
+        <imageobject role="html">
+            <imagedata fileref="images/hibernate_logo_a.png" depth="3cm" />
+        </imageobject>
+    </mediaobject>
+    <copyright>
+        <year>&copyrightYear;</year>
+        <holder>&copyrightHolder;</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <xi:include href="Author_Group.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+
+</bookinfo>
diff --git a/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Hibernate_Developer_Guide.ent b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Hibernate_Developer_Guide.ent
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..406c024c7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Hibernate_Developer_Guide.ent
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<!ENTITY version "WORKING">
+<!ENTITY today "TODAY">
+<!ENTITY copyrightYear "2004">
+<!ENTITY copyrightHolder "Red Hat, Inc.">
+<!ENTITY semi ";">
diff --git a/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Hibernate_Developer_Guide.xml b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Hibernate_Developer_Guide.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..732074da4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/documentation/devguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/Hibernate_Developer_Guide.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+    <!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "Hibernate_Developer_Guide.ent">
+    %BOOK_ENTITIES;
+]>
+
+<book>
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="Book_Info.xml" />
+    <!-- todo : preface once solidified in getting started guide...
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="content/preface.xml" />
+    -->
+
+
+</book>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/documentation/pom.xml b/documentation/pom.xml
index 5a7f194f95..e7bbecdd59 100644
--- a/documentation/pom.xml
+++ b/documentation/pom.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
         <module>manual</module>
         <module>envers</module>
         <module>quickstart</module>
+        <module>devguide</module>
         <!--
         <module>jbosscache2</module>
 -->