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

This is part II of my series on how to set up a Java EE 6 application and stuff as many technologies into a simple application that can ever fit. And then some.

The goal of this blog post is to walk you through an Java EE 6 application from a simple, static web page until we have a full blown stack that consist of the stuff in the list below. I'm calling this stack Summer because after a long, hard winter Spring may be nice but boy, wait until Summer kicks in ;-)

Hibernate Validator 4.1.0.Beta2 is out. A total of 29 issues got resolved since the last release and you can review then in the Jira changelog. Amongst others we added the @ScriptAssert constraints as promised in the previous release blog. Initially we wanted to release 4.1.0.CR directly, but we added a new programmatic constraint configuration API (HV-274) for which we want to first gather some feedback.

At this year's JBoss World we're excited to introduce Metawidget, a community Open Source project that aims to address the pain points associated with UI development.

I'm happy to announce the 12th developer snapshot release of JBoss JCA 1.0.

I'm happy to invite you to attend the Spring into JBoss webinar on June 2nd. Everyone using Spring and running their applications on JBoss (or planning to do so) must attend.

3.5.2-Final is a maintenance release of mainly minor bug fixes. Some fixes in particular were non-minor:

In triaging a reported issue I ended up having to once again delve into investigating PostgreSQL BLOB suppport. So for the sake of posterity and for the sake of my swiss cheese memory I decided to record my findings here.

I had the opportunity to present Seam and Arquillian to an enthusiastic audience in São Paulo on Saturday - I also saw a really nice presentation from Mauricio Salatino and Alexandre Porcelli explaining very clearly why you should use Drools - hopefully they will post a screencast If you were at the event, and wanted a copy of the slides (or if you are just interested), here they are: