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Some time ago I published an article at jroller in order to show how the rich:calendar performance can be improved by using single component instance for all the date inputs on the form. Today I want to use the same workaround to solve another popular problem.

With the release of Java EE 6, I've seen a number of recurring, but rather curious, arguments against upgrading to the new platform. These are usually deployed by folks who are using a homegrown stack consisting of a servlet engine like Tomcat or Jetty together with a number of open source frameworks like Hibernate and Spring.

Since the release of Weld and Java EE 6, there's been a heap of activity in the Weld user forum, and especially a lot of questions about problems related to framework development. You can do some kinds of generic programming in CDI just using managed beans, producer methods and InjectionPoint. But if you want to get serious, you're eventually going to have to embrace the portable extension SPI. Here's a couple of examples of how people are using this SPI.

In case you missed it, Jay and Dan published an article about Ajax and JSF2 on DZone.

JBoss Tools 3.1 CR1 have been made available to celebrate the new year!

I'm happy to announce the 7th developer snapshot of the JBoss JCA project.

The Weld team has recently collaborated with members of the community, most notably Steven Boscarine, to provide you with a set of Maven archetypes that get you developing with CDI and JSF 2 in a jiffy. Today we are announcing that the 1.0.0-BETA1 version of the archetypes are available in the Maven Central Repository. Consider it a holiday present from us ;)

Andy Gibson has written a nice tutorial to help you get started with JSF 2 and CDI using Netbeans and Glassfish. It's great to see that both Netbeans and Intellij 9 already have excellent support for Java EE 6.