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I've been sitting on these links too long. Time to set them free.

This year there will be huge presence of Microcontainer releated material at JavaOne.

In case you missed the announcement, which is highly possible as I think the main voice behind AS, Dimitris, is driving with his motorcycle across Europe and the US team is enjoying a day off with national holiday.

Good news! We've just gone live with Seam 2.1.2.CR2. This release puts us right on the brink of a final release, with only documentation issues and a little more testing remaining on the work list. If you haven't already done so, now is the time to test the release with your Seam projects and report back issues, as the next scheduled stop on the Seam roadmap will be Seam 2.2.

Timothy Potter has posted a really nice article and example application for Seam.

Last week I recorded a couple of podcasts. The first one, with Nitin from DZone, gives a good overview of where we are going with Web Beans and Seam 3 - we talk about what JCDI is, how it fits into Seam 3, and the migration path.

We've been busy with the JSR-299 specification (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE) over the last couple of weeks, preparing to submit a Proposed Final Draft in early June. At this point I would like to solicit feedback from the community on the recent changes, so I'm posting a current revision of the specification[1] here.

One of the nice new features in the latest draft of JSR-299 is the ability to inject a reference to all beans of a certain type, for example:

Linda has written up the new typesafe query API. I previously blogged the reasoning behind this stuff here and here.