In Relation To

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:

Last week we released the third milestone for AS6. One major improvement this release brings is a completely new high performance messaging implementation. HornetQ is available out of the box, all you have to do is setup your queues/topics and deploy any EE app using JMS. You can read more about this on Clebert's blog .

We've been starting to think about what we want to include in Weld 1.1. Of course, you can expect the usual bug fixes, as well as a few new features -- I'll outline those for you here.

One unsolved problem with Bean Validation is how to apply a constraint on the elements of a collection (or iterable). Think about a User entity with a list of emails (primary, secondary, ...). This could be modeled like this:

Hibernate Search 3.2 has been in development close to a year and now we are releasing it :) Instead of giving you a list of new features, let me highlight a couple of use cases we now cover:

I'm happy to announce the 11th developer snapshot release of JBoss JCA 1.0.

I have put up the videos from our last couple of meetings at the Boston JBoss User Group.