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I am pleased to announce that we have just released Hibernate version 3.5.0-CR-1. As a refresher, Hibernate follows the JBoss versioing scheme where CR is a Candidate for Release (what many of you might call RC). The main stated goal of 3.5 is JPA 2 compliance. This is the first release we believe achieves that goal entirely. In fact we are in the process of certifying for standalone JPA 2 compliance and have integrated this CR into the imminent JBoss AS M2 release as part of their effort towards full Java EE 6 compliance.

This week we had our first meeting at the Boston JBoss User Group :)

On February 5th several members of the RichFaces team presented at Minsk, main building of "Belarusian High Technologies Park". It was really cool day full of good discussions and feedback! Here is our overview of the JSF – RichFaces related presentations.

In preparation for the release of Weld 1.0.1 on February 19th, we've pushed out a full distribution of Weld 1.0.1-CR2 for final inspection. It's based on the proposed CDI 1.0-SP1 API. Grab it, test it, play with it, give us feedback, let us know if it gets your stamp of approval. You can find direct download links at the bottom of this post or you can pull the artifacts from the Maven Central Repository.

The initiative to create Weld archetypes has had a further reaching impact than just the community of developers interested in using CDI (via Weld). A recent entry on the Sonatype blog, titled Maven Archetypes and Nexus: “There is No Faster Way”, cites the Weld archetypes as:

Ok maybe it's not a minefield, but there's still quite a few gotchas when trying to build a Weld application to run in Google App Engine. Since I'm currently renovating my house I decided that it would be fun to blog about the experience (a software guy doing physical labour? weird!!) and it only made sense to kick the GAE tyres to see what all the hype was about. Google have done a great job providing a richly featured cloud platform with plenty of good documentation and a helpful online community, and the free quotas they provide are more than enough for the average low traffic web site.

5th February several members of the RichFaces and JBoss Tools teams will be presenting at the Modern Java Technologies Workshop in Minsk, Belarus.

There have been numerous questions in regards to the following statement made in a few places on the Hibernate website:

In terms of JPA 2, its really easier to start talking about things not yet implemented :) The set of missing features are defined by the unresolved subtasks of the following 2 Jira issues: