Bio
Gavin King is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He's the creator of Hibernate, a popular persistence solution for Java and of the Ceylon programming language. He contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as spec lead and author of the CDI specification. He's currently a major contributor to the design of Jakarta Data and Jakarta Persistence. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and three daughters. His active interests include theoretical physics and quantum technologies.
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Exadel and JBoss partnership
Exadel and JBoss are partnering to build a unified development environment for enterprise Java, comparable to Microsoft's .Net. Please read the announcement here:
Thoughts on Seam 1.2
This release was not meant to be such a big one. We had originally intended to call it 1.1.7, but when we sat down and looked at the size of the changelog since the 1.1.6 release, we realized that there were simply too many changes for a point release. So it got a very last minute rebranding ;-)
Seam 1.2 GA is out
Seam 1.2 introduces many improvements including out of the box integration with the Spring Framework, EL support in HQL/EJB-QL, entity level security, SSL redirection, simplified configuration, improvements to orchestation via pages.xml and many enhancements to seam-gen, including support for composite keys and circular associations and integration of Ajax4JSF.
EL in QL
By the way, my favorite new Seam 1.2 feature is this one:
Seam 1.1.6 is out
Seam 1.1.6 features several important bugfixes and new features for Seam/Security,
including remember me
functionality, integration of JCaptcha, support for automatic
redirects to and from the login page when authorization checks fail and a minor API
redesign. Seam's exception handling facility was totally redesigned, to be much more
robust and work better with Seam/Security. Also, the seam-gen tool now integrates
Seam/Security. This work was all based upon the huge volume of user feedback we
received since the 1.1.5 release.
Seam 1.1.5: Security, Email, PDF and more!
Seam 1.1.5, despite the strange version number, includes exciting new functionality including:
Michael Yuan on Seam 1.1.5
Micheal wrote an excellent overview of the new features in 1.1.5:
Stop downloading Seam 1.1.0!
I just noticed that of the 1630 downloads of Seam since the release of 1.1.1 on Thursday, only 666 were of Seam 1.1.1. So I must have somehow fluffed the release announcement. (PST is a horrible timezone for announcing things.)
PDF views in Seam
In Seam 1.1.1 a PDF view is just like any other page in the application: a facelets template containing EL expressions that bind values from the underlying Seam components onto the page. So if you already know Seam, producing PDF just involves learning the new iText-specific tags.
Seam 1.1.1 released
Seam 1.1.1 is now available for download.
