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The dust is settling around JSR-303 and we are happy to release Hibernate Validator 4.0.0.CR1. With this release we will be going into feature freeze, especially since we aligned it with JBoss AS 5.2 and Glassfish for integration.

This is the first release towards supporting JPA 2. Most of the APIs are implemented. Some know limitations for this beta include:

Let me preface this by saying up front that, yes, I am fed up with Maven. In the 2 years since I decided to switch Hibernate over to use Maven for its build tool I don't think that Maven has lived up to making builds any easier. Quite the contrary, in fact. Previously though there was not really been any other option. At that time ant/ivy combo was just starting to gain traction. Not to mention that I do like the notion of build-by-convention which Ant just does not provide.

Anil Saldhana just pointed out this article about how you can use JBoss Identity Management to provide SSO capabilities to your Seam application. It discusses a couple of approaches.

As others have mentioned JBoss World is coming up, and I just wanted to a highlight a few talks that will be of interest to you Seam aficionados.

I'm happy to announce the availability of JBoss Annotations 1.0.0.Alpha1.

Last few weeks, apart from doing real work ;-), I've been hacking away a simple tool to display MC's components. I named the project Grapher, as that's what the project/app does - it creates a plain graph.

The waiting is over. Seam 2.2 is now officially ready!