In Relation To

Cedric recently brought up the topic of type erasure, concluding:

If you missed our webinars on JBoss AS7 then never fear, because we've already got the recordings uploaded!

Congratulations to the whole AS team on the release of version 6! JBoss AS 6 is a Java EE 6 compliant application server, so it includes built-in support for many of the technologies we talk about here: CDI, JPA 2, Bean Validation, EJB 3.1, JSF 2.0, Servlets 3.0, along with many major enhancements in other areas.

Dan did a webinar yesterday looking at Java EE 6 and CDI, showing how it can be used to improve your application development.

A few folks have been asking what the hell's happened to me, and I realized that I have not posted anything here for like 6 months. Well, the truth is, apart from recently becoming a father, I've been quite busy with a really exciting new project. And yeah, my head is full of a hundred interesting things I could blog about, but, unfortunately, the new project is super-duper secret for now, so I'll have to keep a lid on it until we're ready for an alpha release (perhaps another 6 months from now).

In this shortish part, we'll add some interfaces to our application so external users can read the current greetings. Expanding the interfaces so greetings can be added is left as an exercise for the reader

My wife has delivered our daughter and JBoss has delivered a snapshot of the AS 6 that can do most of the stuff we set out to do, so let's move on!

In this third part we'll be hooking up JPA 2 with the static metamodel generator, Bean Validation and Envers