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Mark Little, the CTO of JBoss, blogged about our vision for component models in JBoss platforms - he gives a great overview, describing how Seam (and JSR-299/Weld) will form the core programming model.

I've posted the CDI TCK 1.0.0 on seamframework.org. You can read the docs or download the TCK for your use.

The question of backward compatibility is something that all framework developers wrestle with. The term means different things to different people:

It's been a while since the last blog entry and any MC DZone article. So, this entry is what will change this fact. :-)

Today, Red Hat submitted the final draft of JSR-299[1], which now goes under the moniker CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection), along with the Reference Implementation and TCK. Check out the spec[1] and Javadoc.

That's now official, the Bean Validation specification has been voted YES by the JCP expert committee. That's the culmination of two and a half years of work. (I know the vote has ended nov 2nd but nobody told me ;) )

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.