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Time has not been standing still for Hibernate Validator and I am happy to announce the 4.1.0.Beta1 release of Hibernate Validator. The focus towards the final 4.1.0 release is to add new custom constraints, provide enhancement which go beyond the Bean Validation specification and give the developers an annotation processor to verify the correct placement of constraints. You can see what is already implemented in this beta release by referring to the Jira release notes. The roadmap towards 4.1.0 can be seen here. On the custom constraint side we added @CreditCardNumber, @NotBlank and @URL and are planning to add @ScriptAssert for the next release. We also introduced a new interface ResourceBundleLocator which allows users to make a better use of ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator. Instead of just loading resource bundles from the classpath using ResourceBundle.getBundle, you can now provide a custom implementation of ResourceBundleLocator providing the ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator with the message resource bundles to use:

Ehcache 2.0, which was recently released, supports the new Hibernate 3.3/3.5 SPI with its CacheRegionFactory.

Cool software projects have cool logos. We recently announced an alpha release of Arquillian, a project that's going to revolutionize Java EE integration testing. Now we need to make Arquillian cool :)

As promised, we're happy to announce another early release of a Seam 3 module, Seam XML 3.0.0 Alpha 1. The Seam XML module, contributed and led by Stuart Douglas, is a CDI portable extension that allows you to add, modify and extend CDI-discovered beans using XML as an alternative to annotations.

We are pleased to announce completion of the first phase of migrating Hibernate.org to what we feel will be a more stable, more collaborative and more friendly experience.

EclipseCon 2010 is getting close and JBoss by Red Hat is again sponsoring this yearly Eclipse focused event!

I'm pleased to announce the availability of our first Seam 3 module, Seam Remoting 3.0.0.Beta1. This release provides a CDI-based port of most of the AJAX remoting features that you know from Seam 2.x, and also introduces a new feature, the Model API. Please refer to the following links for downloads and documentation, and if you encounter any issues please use the issue tracking link to let us know about them. (Seam Remoting now has its own project in JIRA).

As the title says, Seam 2.2.1.CR1 is now available for download - you can get it from Sourceforge here:

I'm very happy to announce the availability of the Tattletale 1.1, the Java dependency analyzer, release.