In Relation To

In my previous little rant, I showed you how to use @Alternative and alternative stereotypes to easily change bean implementations based upon deployment scenario. But that's not the end of the story. There's two other things I would sometimes like to be able to change at deployment time:

I'm trying really hard to emphasize to the community that CDI and Weld are not just a dependency injection solution. We did not come at this from the point of view of trying to solve dependency injection, or of trying to build a better Spring.

The second release towards JPA 2 support. Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-1 include:

The 5th development snapshot of the JBoss JCA 1.6 container is out.

Dan Allen has been writing a series of articles covering ideas from Seam that made it into JSF2. The latest installment covers view parameters and creating bookmarkable links. Seam users should find this stuff extremely familiar.

CDI (JSR-299) and Weld 1.0 are almost a reality. We've got word from Sun that CDI and the rest of Java EE 6 will be submitted to the JCP on November 9. I've spent the last few days filling out the Javadoc for the CDI API and SPI packages and making some last-minute cleanups to the spec. Meanwhile, Pete and the others are fixing bugs in the RI and TCK. This process has taken more than 3 years, and an incredible amount of pain, but we're now looking at one of the most well-reviewed JCP specifications ever.

Episode 3 from the Asylum is now available at asylum.jboss.org.

Hibernate Validator 4.0.1 is now available and can be downloaded from here. This release addresses issues discovered by the JCP integration efforts for JSR-303. Of course we used this opportunity to also fix some bugs identified by the community. Thanks for all the feedback.

Steven Boscarine has written a nice short tutorial on getting up and running with Weld and JSF on Jetty, using Maven. Note that there's a bit more boilerplate here than there would be in a Java EE environment, since integration of Weld in Jetty requires explicit configuration. Nevertheless, I think Steven does a good job of demonstrating that it's easy to get up and running with this stuff.