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DZone recently interviewed me about CDI and Weld. Please, no more jokes about the hat. I had a horrid morning that day and had to run off to the interview without a shower, breakfast or coffee.

Now that Bean Validation is officially part of Java EE 6 and that Java EE6 is officially voted YES, let's see how Bean Validation integrates with the rest of the eco system.

I called EE 6 the beginning of a whole new ecosystem. Some of you guys are probably thinking this is hyperbole. Well, here's why I think it's possible.

One of the innovations we have brought to Hibernate Search is an alternative way to define the mapping information: a programmatic API.

We got Thomas Heute to talk with us shortly before Devoxx and had a chat about Portal's, what are they good for and what developers should care about when it come to using a portal such as JBoss Portal or the new GateIn portal project.

It has been quite some time since the latest Hibernate Search release, but we are happy to announce the first beta release of version 3.2.0 with tons of bug fixes and exciting new features. In fact there are so many new features that we are planning to write a whole series of blog entries covering the following topics:

Pete and Dan have material up on DZone. Pete was interviewed about portable extensions in CDI, and Dan has the third part of his series about JSF2.

The Java EE 6 platform, along with Contexts and Dependency Injection, Bean Validation, EJB 3.1, JPA 2 and Servlet 3 have just been approved by the JCP EC. This completely changes the landscape for people developing web and enterprise applications in Java. There's just so much to digest here, and so many problems that are finally solved. EE 6 is something of a new start, and the beginning of a whole new ecosystem. Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Weld logo feedback :-)

The 6th development snapshot of the JBoss JCA 1.6 container is out.