In Relation To

As many of you will have noticed, recently we (the Seam team) have been putting our energy into other efforts than Seam 2. I've been working on Web Beans (the reference implementation of JSR-299). Shane has been working on the JSR-299 TCK (to test all implementations of JSR-299 for compatibility with the spec). Dan and I have spent a lot of time pushing some of the JSF improvements from Seam into JSF 2 (the proposed final draft should be up any day now!).

Good news!

This month I'm presenting at JSF Days in Vienna, Austria on Web Beans, and at JAX in Mainz, Germany on Web Beans and Seam. If you are in the area, drop by!

RichFaces 3.3.1.BETA2 has been uploaded to the JBoss repository. We continue to stabilize the code base on the way to final release.

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I'll cover the basics of Seam and whats in store for the future. If the demo gods are smiling I will also be showing off seam-gen and reverse engineering a CRUD application as well.

I just got done presenting on JSR-299 at the SDC conference in Gotenborg, Sweden. Here's the latest slide set[1]!

RichFaces 3.3.1.BETA1 has been deployed to: jboss repository and ready for community preview.

Hibernate Validator version 4.0.0 Alpha3 is of now available. This implementation is based on JSR 303 Specification 1.0.CR1[1]. The distribution packages contain everything you need to get started.

Adding to the stockpile of features that I've packed into seam-gen in recent months, I just committed a new seam-gen command that generates a front-end to Seam's identity management API (JBSEAM-3717). Identity management is one of the most significant additions to Seam in the Seam 2 code base. But since its just set of framework classes, you need something to tie it into your application to truly appreciate (or even give notice to) its potential.