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Steve mentioned in his Hibernate 3.5.0 Beta2 blog entry briefly the Hibernate Static Metamodel Generator Annotation Processor. Time to have a closer look what this annotation processor actually does.

I just noticed that CDI makes it possible to write properties files in Java, instead of plain text. I'm not sure if this is useful, but it is cute.

I put a whole bunch of work into the Javadoc for CDI recently. You can see it here. There's a good overview of the spec in the package doc for javax.enterprise.inject.

Nick Belaevski is the RichFaces dev lead in Minsk and has officially joined the JSF 2.0 Expert Group (JSR-314) along with Alex Smirnov to represent RichFaces and Exadel. As many of you know Dan Allen and Pete Muir are also on the JSF 2.0 Expert Group representing Red Hat & JBoss. Together these 4 people along with the rest of the EG will continue to help advance JSF as a standard and a technology.

Hibernate Validator 4.0.2 is now available for download. This release was necessary for the JCP integration efforts for JSR-303 and addresses a potential NullPointerException (HV-263). Refer to the 4.0.2 release notes for a full list of changes.

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:

Suppose we have an external resource, a database, let's say, that we want to be able to change depending upon the deployment environment. In CDI, we declare resources using a producer field declaration.

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.