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When we released JBoss Developer Studio 2.1 we also announced its updatesite at https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates which is for all customers to use. If you are a 2.1 user you have been able to use it to update to JBoss Developer Studio 2.1.1 which includes some minor bug fixes.

Norman Richards has been busy working on a reference card for JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection recently. DZone just published it so go and check it out!

Gource is a software version control visualization tool and one of its unique features is that its pretty darn fast and support a multitude of version control systems including SVN.

As we get closer to a beta release of Seam Remoting 3.0, I'd like to talk a bit about what I think is one of the more exciting new features - the Model API. While chatting with Max in Antwerp last year, we were discussing the challenges associated with manipulating persistent objects remotely via AJAX. Dealing with lazy-loaded associations, detached entities, how to apply updates, etc are all issues faced when developing an AJAX-based user interface backed by an RPC-style API.

Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-2 include:

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm happy to announce the creation of the Boston JBoss User Group.

Some time ago I published an article at jroller in order to show how the rich:calendar performance can be improved by using single component instance for all the date inputs on the form. Today I want to use the same workaround to solve another popular problem.

With the release of Java EE 6, I've seen a number of recurring, but rather curious, arguments against upgrading to the new platform. These are usually deployed by folks who are using a homegrown stack consisting of a servlet engine like Tomcat or Jetty together with a number of open source frameworks like Hibernate and Spring.