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Gavin King is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He's the creator of Hibernate, a popular persistence solution for Java and of the Ceylon programming language. He contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as spec lead and author of the CDI specification. He's currently a major contributor to the design of Jakarta Data and Jakarta Persistence. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and three daughters. His active interests include theoretical physics and quantum technologies.
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JSR-314 has passed its final approval ballot. Finally, JSF gets a chance to live up to its promise. JSF 2.0 brings a bunch of innovation that happened in third-party extensions (including Facelets, Seam and Ajax4JSF) back into the specification. Back in July '07, I wrote up this wishlist and it's great to see that most of the issues on this list (and much more) have been addressed. It takes an enormous amount of work to put together a specification like this, so please join me in thanking the expert group. Of course, I should especially thank the members of my team (Dan Allen and Pete Muir) who worked hard on getting some important features in very late in the cycle.
JavaOne presentation on JSR-299
Nice article about Seam
Timothy Potter has posted a really nice article and example application for Seam.
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.
Mutli-valued injection points
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.
Google and Spring are proposing a JSR to standardize a set of dependency injection related annotations. I've been asked by several people to comment on this and how it relates to JSR-299.
JSR-299 presentation
I just got done presenting on JSR-299 at the SDC conference in Gotenborg, Sweden. Here's the latest slide set[1]!
JSR-299 Public Review Draft approved by EC
The revised Public Review Draft of Contexts and Dependency Injection (JSR-299, the spec formerly known as Web Beans) was approved by the EC with all EC members voting Yes, except for Nortel and SpringSource who did not vote.
A revised public draft of JSR-299 is now available. This draft was produced with input from several people from the EE 6 expert group and aims to address a number of criticisms surrounding the relationship between 299 and the rest of the EE platform.
