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I'm pleased to announce the availability of Seam 3.0.0.Beta1.

The recording of my CDI webinar from Wednesday (second highest attendance in the series, just pipped to the post by Bela talking about clustering!) is now available. Enjoy!

I've just published Weld 1.1.0, the reference implementation of JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE. It's based on the CDI 1.0 API. You can find direct download links at the bottom of this post or you can pull the artifacts from the JBoss Maven Repository.

Some people have wondered why CDI requires an explicit @Named annotation before a bean can be accessed using EL? Why not just give all beans names by default?

I am happy to announce the first beta release of Hibernate Validator 4.2. You can download this release as usual from the JBoss Maven Repository or from SourceForge.

Not sure if this has been posted but I just noticed that Gavin King has been awarded the title of JCP Star Spec Lead. Congratulations!

As the year comes to an end it is time to reflect over how the Boston JBoss User Group did in 2010.

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.

We're excited to announce that a majority of the Seam3 modules (listed below) have been migrated to Seam Solder!