In Relation To

Pete and Dan have material up on DZone. Pete was interviewed about portable extensions in CDI, and Dan has the third part of his series about JSF2.

The Java EE 6 platform, along with Contexts and Dependency Injection, Bean Validation, EJB 3.1, JPA 2 and Servlet 3 have just been approved by the JCP EC. This completely changes the landscape for people developing web and enterprise applications in Java. There's just so much to digest here, and so many problems that are finally solved. EE 6 is something of a new start, and the beginning of a whole new ecosystem. Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Weld logo feedback :-)

The 6th development snapshot of the JBoss JCA 1.6 container is out.

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.