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In this article on JavaLobby, Daniel Spiewak, the creator of something called ActiveObjects takes some pot shots at Hibernate, and compares Hibernate negatively with Ruby's ActiveRecord and ActiveObjects. Now, I'm always interested to read informed criticism, but in this case, Daniel seems to be comparing these brand new frameworks against Hibernate2, released in 2003, before I joined JBoss. He says:

Daniel Spiewak responded to More XML than code?

Seam and Drools both got the nod in InfoWorld's Best of Open Source awards. Apparently the judges did not have a category for application frameworks but they were so determined to reward Seam that they decided to hand us the application server category ;-)

The RichFaces team has released RichFaces 3.1.0. This release merges the functionality of Ajax4JSF and RichFaces into a single package and adds a number of new components. You can get the new release here or try out the online demo.

Now we're getting really really close to having a real community site for Seam!

Check out the new blog! How do you like the /text/ styling?

This is the second installment of a series. Part I is here:

This is the third installment of a series. Parts II is here:

Three months to the day after the release of Seam 1.2.1, Seam2 has entered its beta phase. The Seam 2.0 codebase is more robust, better organized, better documented and is designed to take Seam beyond the world of JSF. Seam 2.0 introduces the following changes and new features:

As predictable as fog in San Francisco, every couple of months we are unsurprised to see yet another announcement by some company or open source group who has solved the complexity of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) by eliminating the relational database. Great leaps in developer productivity are promised, together with astonishing performance increments, usually in the realm of two or three orders of magnitude compared to existing technology. What is most amazing about this is that so many different groups seem to have achieved such breathtaking advances entirely independently of each other and yet, paradoxically, enterprise adoption of these technologies remains approximately zero. What's going on here? Is the all-powerful Oracle Corporation secretly blackmailing all CIOs in America? Well, let's try to understand this paradox better by taking a closer look at the claimed benefits of these systems.