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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.

Since I posted that Seam was now available in Maven, both Michael Yuan and Wesley Hales have blogged about creating a Seam project with Maven, including automagically setting up Tomcat with JBoss Embedded (cool, huh!) and deploying the project to it.

Here's a quick overview of a feature I've been wanting to add to Seam for ages. It's really easy to use - just create a standard SeamTest and inside the invokeApplication() call getRenderedMailMessage(viewIdOfMailMessageToRender). You can then make assertion's against the returned MimeMessage.