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The RESTEasy project is an implementation of JAX-RS. I've just committed the docs for the first step of the integration into Seam. You need a nightly build of Seam 2.1 trunk (wait until tomorrow for updated docs in the nightly build) or better a current SVN trunk checkout.

A friend just sent this, great pictures generated from malware, spam, random SQL, etc.

A robust web application should not crash and die when the session times out. I guess we can all agree on that, but thanks to the stateless nature of HTTP and the usual hacks attaching session state onto that protocol, this is quite difficult to accomplish. Just search for session timeout on Google. So here I am with my JSF/Seam/Ajax4JSF/jQuery application, trying to make it more robust.

Seam offers some basic infrastructure for CAPTCHA creation and validation, so all you have to do if you want to add CAPTCHA validation to a form is add a single form field and show the picture with <h:graphicImage/>. The only built-in implementation we shipped with Seam 1.x and 2.0 was based on JCaptcha, but you could easily extend it and do your own question/answer thing. This is actually what I did and you can see my simplified math question CAPTCHA if you try to post a comment to this entry.

Someone asked on Slashdot what NAS he should buy. As usual, the clowns have a field day on the comments (even at threshold 5). The usual You should not need one if you do foo, Why add a single point of failure, and other Funny comments. I actually happen to have a NAS at home for more than a year. Here is what I wrote a year ago:

I've recently read the book Domain Driven Design, which apparently is now the new bible for some folks who totally think in objects. I even mentioned it in HiA and JPwH - unfortunately I didn't read it before.

Two weeks ago I presented Seam at Grails eXchange in London. This presentation was recorded, unfortunately without the slides in the visible frame:

Ales Justin and Mark Newton are going to present the new JBoss application server core and kernel on Thursday this week, at a meeting of the JBoss special interest group. See you there.

Our book Java Persistence with Hibernate is now available in German. You can get it from Hanser Verlag and they also have an eBook edition available. This is a literal translation of the English original. However, to finish the translation faster we decided to cut the bonus chapter with the Seam introduction. Sorry folks, I will ask Manning if we can get this chapter published for free in the English original version. With Seam 2.0 approaching final release this is a bit outdated anyway.