In Relation To

Last week I recorded a couple of podcasts. The first one, with Nitin from DZone, gives a good overview of where we are going with Web Beans and Seam 3 - we talk about what JCDI is, how it fits into Seam 3, and the migration path.

We've been busy with the JSR-299 specification (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE) over the last couple of weeks, preparing to submit a Proposed Final Draft in early June. At this point I would like to solicit feedback from the community on the recent changes, so I'm posting a current revision of the specification[1] here.

One of the nice new features in the latest draft of JSR-299 is the ability to inject a reference to all beans of a certain type, for example:

Linda has written up the new typesafe query API. I previously blogged the reasoning behind this stuff here and here.

I'm proud to present the initial version of Fresh, CLI for JBossAS.

Note: Updated version available