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CDI (JSR-299) and Weld 1.0 are almost a reality. We've got word from Sun that CDI and the rest of Java EE 6 will be submitted to the JCP on November 9. I've spent the last few days filling out the Javadoc for the CDI API and SPI packages and making some last-minute cleanups to the spec. Meanwhile, Pete and the others are fixing bugs in the RI and TCK. This process has taken more than 3 years, and an incredible amount of pain, but we're now looking at one of the most well-reviewed JCP specifications ever.

Hot on the heels of the renaming of the JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE, Weld, I'm pleased to announce the 1.0.0.CR1 release. This is a major milestone; for the project and for Java EE 6, as it represents a feature complete implementation of the JSR-299 Proposed Final Draft 2 specification; the specification, implementation and TCK will be submitted to the JCP for the Final Draft ballot.

I am starting to move all Drools5 integration code to the Seam 3 drools module and will update the previous posts with correct links as soon as they are available. There will be no further development against the Seam 2.2.Drools5 branch.

It seams that some users of Selenium, a framework Seam uses for testing, have reported anti-virus software detecting a possible trojan in the Selenium JARs. This specific issue is with the hudsuckr.exe windows executable, and has been confirmed to be a false positive.

Daniel Azarov have been busy the last few months improving our Find references and Refactoring support for JSF and Seam Expression Language (EL) references.

I'm pleased to announce that the Web Beans project has a new name -- Weld

I'll be talking about JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection For Java EE at the Riviera JUG this week, on Friday 2nd October at 14:00. Next week, I'm off to Ljubljana, Slovenia and Belgrade, Serbia for JavaBlend; my slot is 09:00 on Wednesday 7th October in Ljubljana, and 11:00 on Friday 9th October in Belgrade.