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In a previous blog I announced the first part of the program for the Boston JBoss User Group.

So, what's coming up at JUDCon 2011 and JBoss World 2011?

JUDCon is just around the corner, and there is gonna be a lot of CDI / Weld presence.

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Seam Faces 3.0.1.Final. Brian Leathem, the Seam Faces module lead has addressed a number of issues with this point release and also made a number of enhancements to the view configuration feature, which I'm sure a lot of people are going to be excited about. In the (hopefully continuing) tradition of having a weekly module spotlight feature, Brian has also written this week's article which I'm very pleased to present to you now!

The Hibernate team is pleased to announce Hibernate Search 3.4 which comes with couple of new features most notably faceting: we are continuing the trend of 3.3 where the focus was on simplifying queries). But the bulk of the work has been around performance optimization, you should see the benefits in your applications especially when the domain model is getting complex.

There's a point I make in my Introducing the Ceylon Project presentation that's been widely misunderstood (perhaps mainly by people who're trying to misunderstand). Since I've been criticized over this in several venues, it merits a response. The offending statement is the following:

I'm pleased to say that the JCP just posted JSR-346 - the proposal will now be voted upon by the JCP Executive Committee (EC) and we'll know whether it has been approved to move forward on 25th April.

Alex Blewitt of InfoQ has published my answers to his questions about Ceylon.

So Marc Richards and then slashdot picked up on my presentations at InfoQ China. I wasn't quite expecting this level of exposure at this point, and I imagine that things will quiet down pretty quickly at least until we do an initial release of the compiler. All we have right now is a specification, an ANTLR grammar, and an incomplete type checker. Work on the backend bytecode generation is just beginning (though we'll be able to reuse a bunch of code from javac).