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James and Cheyenne (from the JBoss.org design team) have been hard at work creating a logo. We've worked through a few designs, and picked a few that we want to share with the community and get feedback on.

I've alluded to our plans for the CDI TCK, but I wanted to expand upon them. We're pretty proud of the fact that the CDI TCK is open source (something we share in common with Bean Validation and JSR-330 in the Java EE space), and we intend to treat the TCK like any other open source project (as far as possible within the constraints set by the JCP).

This is a small thing that I ran into when writing Decision Tables using OpenOffice:

I'm on my way home from the Seam community meeting in Antwerp this Friday, where I managed to talk to two or three people about the Javadoc-based documentation toolset I've been working on, but there was no opportuntity to talk about it in more detail or to look at some actual examples.

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.