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IntelliJ now has support for the new JPA 2.0 typesafe query facility I've been blogging about. It's very important that this stuff works smoothly with tooling, so it's great to see that the tooling vendors are on this early.

I've written up a wish list for the next release of CDI (either a maintenance release, or a version 1.1). These are just suggestions that I'll be taking to the Expert Group.

Asylum 4 is out.

InfoQ has published a their questions and my answers about CDI and Weld.

I have been at a few conferences lately and the EE 6 wave is taking a bunch of people by surprise. Tsunami level 6. The last two examples are W-JAX and Devoxx.

I'm happy to announce the Tattletale 1.1.0.Beta1 release, which contains many new features.

One of the really nice things about Weld is how nicely it works in Java SE. Of course, if you run Weld on its own, you won't get nice functionality like EJBs (you'll need an embeddable EJB container for that), but you do get a bunch of great stuff, including:

A developer new to Java EE posted in the Weld forum asking for advice on getting started learning EE 6. I've decided to promote part of my response in the forum to the blog.

Here's a CDI portable extension that reads values from properties files and configures fields of Java EE components. In Java EE 6, this works for any Java EE component supporting injection, including servlets, EJBs, managed beans, interceptors and more.

A much-requested feature on this website has been automatic syntax highlighting of code snippets. It is now available and I thought I'd document it here instead of sending everyone an e-mail. The reason why it took so long to implement is that I didn't know how to best integrate it with the Seam wiki text syntax. As you know, we wrap a code block in backticks - that doesn't leave any room for syntax highlighting options. Other wiki text parsers use something like <code syntax="java">...</code> but I wanted to keep the superfast backtick syntax and have it highlighted.