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Norman released 1.2.1 yesterday. Have you ever wished you could have the same edit/test cycle in Java that people in the PHP, Ruby or Grails communities take for granted? I mean, the ability to edit a Java class or XHTML page in your editor, and then see the result immediately, just by clicking refresh in your browser? Well, now you can. The easiest way to try out this new feature is to create a WAR project using seam-gen, and start coding - it's wicked fun.

I am glad that Genuitec finally made their changes to Hibernate Tools publicly available at their open source resources page. That is all that I/we ever asked for.

Wow, amazing how quickly my last blog entry got results! Since I posted it, it appears that Genuitec have decided to comply with the LGPL and provide their modifications to Hibernate tools in source form:

In an amazingly intemperate and irrational blog entry:

This is a pretty big day for the Hibernate family. We welcome three new top level projects:

Exadel and JBoss are partnering to build a unified development environment for enterprise Java, comparable to Microsoft's .Net. Please read the announcement here:

This release was not meant to be such a big one. We had originally intended to call it 1.1.7, but when we sat down and looked at the size of the changelog since the 1.1.6 release, we realized that there were simply too many changes for a point release. So it got a very last minute rebranding ;-)

Seam 1.2 introduces many improvements including out of the box integration with the Spring Framework, EL support in HQL/EJB-QL, entity level security, SSL redirection, simplified configuration, improvements to orchestation via pages.xml and many enhancements to seam-gen, including support for composite keys and circular associations and integration of Ajax4JSF.

By the way, my favorite new Seam 1.2 feature is this one: