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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.

One of the nicest features of CDI is the portable extension SPI. According to the spec:

In case you're like me, and you missed this when it was first published, check out Andy Schwartz's summary of what's new in JSF2. (Andy's one of the good guys on the JSF EG.) It's fun to compare the final product to my wishlist from back in '07. Oh, what innocent, carefree days...

Following up on my last blog entry about the next edition of the Hibernate bible, in the comments, Will Iverson (sorry Will, I hope that is really you, first Google hit) said that he would write ALL the code examples as JUnit test cases. Well, AFAIR that is what Will was trying with his Hibernate book a few years ago.

Gavin pointed out to me that my script to build the Weld distribution was broken, so I've create Weld 1.0.0 SP1 (Service Pack 1) which remedies this. You can now find Weld's sources and binaries in artifacts/weld and the CDI API source, javadoc and binary in artifacts/cdi. Download it from here.

William Drai has blogged about his experience integrating Granite DS and CDI.