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End of last year I wrote about my first proof-of-concept with AuthorDoclet, a documentation tool I've been working on. It took me a while to get it into shape for a first release and I also had to make some conceptual changes once it was mature enough to compile its own manual.

DZone did a short interview with me to go along with the recently released CDI Refcard. It's a bit on the short side, but it's a good concise overview of CDI for developers who might not get what it's all about yet. Enjoy!

When we released JBoss Developer Studio 2.1 we also announced its updatesite at https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates which is for all customers to use. If you are a 2.1 user you have been able to use it to update to JBoss Developer Studio 2.1.1 which includes some minor bug fixes.

Norman Richards has been busy working on a reference card for JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection recently. DZone just published it so go and check it out!

Gource is a software version control visualization tool and one of its unique features is that its pretty darn fast and support a multitude of version control systems including SVN.

As we get closer to a beta release of Seam Remoting 3.0, I'd like to talk a bit about what I think is one of the more exciting new features - the Model API. While chatting with Max in Antwerp last year, we were discussing the challenges associated with manipulating persistent objects remotely via AJAX. Dealing with lazy-loaded associations, detached entities, how to apply updates, etc are all issues faced when developing an AJAX-based user interface backed by an RPC-style API.

Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-2 include:

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm happy to announce the creation of the Boston JBoss User Group.