In Relation To

Over the past year I've started turning down most speaking invitations from conferences and other events. I found that when I do too many talks, I stop enjoying it, and this doesn't help me give a good performance. But in the next few weeks I'm going to get out and talk about Seam and Web Beans at the following events:

/This is the fifth installment of a series of articles describing the current status of the Web Beans specification. Please read the first, second, third and fourth installments first./

I would like to thank Matt Corey for his commentary on Web Beans, and respond to several points.

/This is the fourth installment of a series of articles describing the current status of the Web Beans specification. Please read the first, second and third installments first./

/This is the third installment of a series of articles describing the current status of the Web Beans specification. You can find the first installment here and the second installment here./

/This is the second installment of a series of articles describing the current status of the Web Beans specification. You can find the first installment here./

We're now really close to releasing a Community Review Draft for Web Beans. The purpose of the draft is to gather feedback on the component model, dependency management model and extensible context model that we've defined, and hopefully get people excited about Web Beans. We also need to get our work in front of the other EE6-related expert groups, so that they can start thinking about how they can possibly re-use and integrate with some of the mechanisms we have defined. However, the specification is by nature written in highly technical language, so this blog entry is the first in a serious of articles giving a friendly, introductory guide to Web Beans. When the Community Review Draft is released, please take the time to download and review it. But please read this series /first/.

Funny!

In case you're wondering, this site is running on a new wiki platform that Christian has developed over the last few months. We'll use this wiki for the new seamframework.org site and, eventually, port hibernate.org across. For now, this blog is a perfect way to validate the content and plugin architecture and test the overall stability of the platform.

The jboss.org team has posted video of an interview we did at JavaOne this year. Well, I hope it's interesting, I think I come off a bit too /easygoing/ at first, and what is up with that limp wrist? Apparently I'm in need of some masculinity training!