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I just noticed that of the 1630 downloads of Seam since the release of 1.1.1 on Thursday, only 666 were of Seam 1.1.1. So I must have somehow fluffed the release announcement. (PST is a horrible timezone for announcing things.)

In Seam 1.1.1 a PDF view is just like any other page in the application: a facelets template containing EL expressions that bind values from the underlying Seam components onto the page. So if you already know Seam, producing PDF just involves learning the new iText-specific tags.

Seam 1.1.1 is now available for download.

Michael and Thomas are writing a book about Seam for O'Reilly , which is apparently the hottest selling item on Rough Cuts. InfoQ are running an excerpt from the first chapter.

The 1.1 release involved a lot of hard work in the guts of Seam, refactoring and fixing bugs, and working with tricky code that handles concerns like clustering and concurrency. Sure, there are many new features, but a lot of the real work is less user-visible. Now that this hard stuff is out of the way, it lets us add some interesting new stuff pretty quickly. Here's a quick roadmap for the next few months:

Cool: Seam was downloaded more than one thousand times on December 14.

In the announcement I neglected to give credit to all the people who worked on Seam 1.1 , so I'll take care of that now. Many thanks to:

This morning I uploaded a GA release of Seam 1.1. For those who've been following the development of Seam 1.1, there is not much new in this compared to the two CR releases. The only significant improvements compared to CR2 are that we now have the Hibernate and JPA example applications running out of the box on WebLogic (as well as JBoss, GlassFish and Tomcat), a number of enhancements to seam-gen, and a nice built-in datepicker control.

Seam 1.1.0.CR2 fixes a number of minor bugs in the CR1 release, and adds some minor improvements. This release includes a version of the booking example application which deploys on GlassFish, the Java EE 5 reference implementation, along with the hibernate2 and jpa examples which run cross-platform on JBoss 4 (with or without EJB3), GlassFish and Tomcat out of the box, and which may be made to run on any J2EE 1.4 compliant application server. The ICEfaces example has been upgraded to ICEfaces 1.5.1.

InfoQ interviewed me on the subject of Seam 1.1. Check it out: