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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.

At the last Seam meeting we ran over the the time line for Seam 3.0 release. We are aiming to have development finished by mid June, spend a month polishing up the documentation and examples, and have a release candidate ready for you to try out in mid July.