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Emanuel Muckenhuber send me this video today showing how JBoss Tools trunk looks like when animated with code swarm.

Although this is old news, just to make a simple blog announcement,
DZone posted my MC part II. article, the title is Advanced Dependency Injection and IoC.

As you may know, I've been working very closely with the other stake holders in JSF (e.g. Sun, Oracle, Apache) on JSF 2. I just wanted to pull together a few recents threads to give you an update.

InfoQ is running an interview we did about Web Beans.

The public draft of Bean Validation is finally out and available here on the JCP website. We have made a lot of improvements and took a lot of feedback from you since the last draft:

Web applications often need to provide a link for the user to download a file, such as an expense report. Seam 2.1.2.CR1 makes the task of serving a file to the user easy and RESTful using a combination of the s:resource and s:download tags. But before we can use these tags, we need to do some simple configuration.

It looks like we can add to the Christmas cheer by announcing that Seam 2.1.1 is now out. Seam 2.1.1 is largely a bug-fix release, with a number of notable performance improvements, especially around hot deploy. We've added support for PDF forms to the iText integration as well as OpenID support. Seam-gen now generates IntelliJ IDEA projects. And, I should also point out that we've changed a few of the URLs on examples to match up better with the example names. If you are developing on Seam 2.1, you should consider upgrading quickly to get the latest fixes.

I'm pleased to announce the release of the Web Beans RI 1.0.0.ALPHA1. This release implements the core of the JSR-299 Web Beans specification and represents a major milestone on the road towards the GA release. Some of the highlights of this release include simple and enterprise Web Beans, support for JBoss Application Server 5, typesafe injection, events and producer methods. There's an exhaustive list below.