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Something that's always slightly bemused me is that software development methodology is something you never seem to hear discussed in organizations whose business is technology. Sure, product companies are certainly very interested in practices and tools to support good practices. (For example, product companies certainly care about testing practices.) But technical practices are kinda orthogonal to methodology debates. And I never hear about a company like Red Hat paying any attention at all to the latest fashions sweeping through the world of agile consultants and project managers. In fact, I'd be very interested to hear of a single example of a truly great software product that was developed (at least initially) according to a methodology.

Here's another usecase for the injection point metadata API that we're considering adding to Web Beans. I've always thought it would be nice to be able to inject entity instances by role, instead of passing references around the system. (In Seam, you can use home objects to achieve this.)

Hibernate Search 3.1.0.CR1 is out. Download it here.

In the comments thread for this post, Bill got me thinking again about a problem that's been bugging me for a while.

Have you ever had an idea on how some web or desktop UI should look and needed to tell someone about ? Your text explanations would be misunderstood or you were just too lazy to even write it down or use any of the many useless expensive tool to make it ?

It's fun to see what people are using Seam for:

IntelliJ IDEA 8 has Seam support. Cool!

If there's one thing that we really want to get right as Web Beans goes from Public Draft to Proposed Final draft, it's integration with the Java EE platform. Up to this point, most of the work we've been doing as an EG was focused on nailing down the programming model, the semantics of the Web Beans services, and the behavior of the Web Bean manager. We've been writing the spec to assume that Web Beans implementations should be pluggable between different Java EE containers, because this is a direction that a lot of folks in the Java EE community believe that the EE platform should move in, and because we would like Web Beans to help show the way for other specifications such as EJB, JTA and perhaps even Servlets (note that JPA and JSF already support this).

JBoss Developer Studio 2 Beta is now freely available if you go through the registration form on this page.

The 2.1.0.SP1 release of Seam contained many features and updates, one of which is an updated Weblogic integration reference guide chapter