In Relation To

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:

I'm happy to announce the 8th developer snapshot of the JBoss JCA project.

The third beta for the Tattletale, the Java dependency analyzer, 1.1 release is out.

End of last year I wrote about my first proof-of-concept with AuthorDoclet, a documentation tool I've been working on. It took me a while to get it into shape for a first release and I also had to make some conceptual changes once it was mature enough to compile its own manual.

DZone did a short interview with me to go along with the recently released CDI Refcard. It's a bit on the short side, but it's a good concise overview of CDI for developers who might not get what it's all about yet. Enjoy!