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I'm happy to announce that we've just released Seam 2.0.0.CR3. (download it) As you can see from the release notes, we've been rather busy the last few weeks. Most of the changes since CR2 are documentation and test related, but we've also been busy fixing bugs, upgrading dependencies and making sure that JBossTools and Seam 2.0 work together.

The JCP folks seem to have resolved their technical problems, and the Web Beans EDR is now available at jcp.org. We've had some great feedback on the comments alias already. Please keep it coming!

Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux will present their experience of implementing an application using Seam, and Bruno Georges will talk about Open Source SOA.

One of the most common forum questions is How do I make Seam call an action method at startup?.

Last nights build of JBoss Tools now has Seam 2 support in its project creation wizards and the artifact wizards (New Seam Action, Form, etc.)

Ales Justin and Mark Newton are going to present the new JBoss application server core and kernel on Thursday this week, at a meeting of the JBoss special interest group. See you there.

Kevin Bourrillion, one of the creators of Guice, has written an excellent post on the subject of typesafety.

The first early draft[1] is now available! Please send comments to jsr-299-comments(AT)jcp.org. We really /do/ pay attention to community feedback, so if you take the time, it won't be wasted!

Here's my slides[1] from the talk at Silicon Valley JUG. This was a basic overview of Web Beans, for those who know nothing about it.