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Wow, we are on fire. :-)

People following our work and vision on Bean Validation know that the ultimate goal is to get the ecosystem of Java frameworks to natively integrate Bean Validation where it makes sense. A particularly important area is the the presentation layer that should call Bean Validation to validate the values to be put in the domain model.

The JSF 2 series on DZone we've been working on continues with an introduction to JSF 2 client behaviors by guest author Andy Schwartz. Andy is a member of the JSR-314 Expert Group (EG) and architect on the ADF Faces project team at Oracle Corporation.

We have just released 3.5.0-CR-2. The main focus for this release was bugfixes and documentation.

I'm happy to announce that the JCA team have shipped our 9th developer snapshot of the 1.0 series.

I'm excited to announce that plans for a top-level JSR for the Unified EL are underway. It's likely that Kin-man Chung will be filing a JSR in the near future. But we aren't waiting to get the discussion started. Kin-man has started the open el-next mailinglist (el-next@uel.dev.java.net), where we will begin itemizing priorities and designing features. We'll then convert the requests into issue reports as they are solidified.

The guys at Caucho have an interesting write up about their decision to aim for EE 6 Web Profile compliance. It's worth hearing their take on the new platform.