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Contexts in JSR-299 is so important that it actually was incorporated in the name after a few attempts so let's have a look at what the contexts and scopes really are. We'll be using Weld as the reference when we want to get into implementation details but the core stuff is implementation agnostic and follow the rules of the specification. This blog posting is sort of a "scopes and contexts for dummies" with some simplifications, for a more formal approach you might want to Read The Fine Specification.

In this shortish part, we'll add some interfaces to our application so external users can read the current greetings. Expanding the interfaces so greetings can be added is left as an exercise for the reader

My wife has delivered our daughter and JBoss has delivered a snapshot of the AS 6 that can do most of the stuff we set out to do, so let's move on!

I'm happy to announce the 13th developer snapshot release of JBoss JCA 1.0.

Hibernate Validator 4.1.0.CR1 is now available. This is the last milestone build before the Final release. Not much has happened between Beta2 and CR1. The programmatic API as described in the previous release blog entry stayed as is and there were only three minor bug fixes. See release notes for details.

3.5.3-Final is a maintenance release of mainly minor bug fixes. Some fixes of particular interest are:

Portability is one of greatest advantages of the Java platform. It represents the concept that from one application to another, from one application-server vendor to another, and from one job to another, knowledge is freely transferable; the same skills, technologies, and designs can be used with assurance that there are always multiple choices for business solutions.

Future blogs by me related to JBoss Tools & Developer Studio will be done at JBoss Tools Community Blog.

In this third part we'll be hooking up JPA 2 with the static metamodel generator, Bean Validation and Envers