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I'm proud to report that we released JBoss Developer Studio 1.0 (formerly known as Red Hat Developer Studio) earlier today.

A quick update for those who like living on the edge ;-)

Seam offers some basic infrastructure for CAPTCHA creation and validation, so all you have to do if you want to add CAPTCHA validation to a form is add a single form field and show the picture with <h:graphicImage/>. The only built-in implementation we shipped with Seam 1.x and 2.0 was based on JCaptcha, but you could easily extend it and do your own question/answer thing. This is actually what I did and you can see my simplified math question CAPTCHA if you try to post a comment to this entry.

Max and I will be at JavaPolis next week. I don't know what Max is doing there but I will talk about Hibernate Search and JSR-303 Bean Validation, both talks on Thursday the 13th. Speaking of JSR-303, I have done a quick interview with Mark Newton on the topic: in a nutshell, it's shaping well and we hope to have a draft out in a month or so for you to review :)

One of my favorite feature in JBoss Tools is the Project Archives which provides automatic and incremental archiving of arbitrary directories into a zipped archive (jar,zip,war,etc) or into an exploded directory. Usable for any development that wants hot and/or exploded deployment.

Stephan Schmidt says that people don’t get the difference between business and UI logic:

Gavin pointed out that he did not get the separation between business logic and UI. Which leads to the question of why are we layering in the first place? I have heard many many bad reasons to justify layering. Actually, this is one of my favorite questions when I give a training. It's always fun to see the people sweating over a justification.

Someone asked on Slashdot what NAS he should buy. As usual, the clowns have a field day on the comments (even at threshold 5). The usual You should not need one if you do foo, Why add a single point of failure, and other Funny comments. I actually happen to have a NAS at home for more than a year. Here is what I wrote a year ago:

I've just installed Fedora 8 on my ThinkPad X60, and as it comes with packages for Iced Tea (Red Hat's version of OpenJDK), I thought I would take the Seam Booking Example out for a spin.

The release candidate of JBoss Tools is now available at sourceforge for Linux, Windows and Mac.