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In preparation for the release of Weld 1.0.1 on February 19th, we've pushed out a full distribution of Weld 1.0.1-CR2 for final inspection. It's based on the proposed CDI 1.0-SP1 API. Grab it, test it, play with it, give us feedback, let us know if it gets your stamp of approval. You can find direct download links at the bottom of this post or you can pull the artifacts from the Maven Central Repository.

5th February several members of the RichFaces and JBoss Tools teams will be presenting at the Modern Java Technologies Workshop in Minsk, Belarus.

When we released JBoss Developer Studio 2.1 we also announced its updatesite at https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates which is for all customers to use. If you are a 2.1 user you have been able to use it to update to JBoss Developer Studio 2.1.1 which includes some minor bug fixes.

Norman Richards has been busy working on a reference card for JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection recently. DZone just published it so go and check it out!

As we get closer to a beta release of Seam Remoting 3.0, I'd like to talk a bit about what I think is one of the more exciting new features - the Model API. While chatting with Max in Antwerp last year, we were discussing the challenges associated with manipulating persistent objects remotely via AJAX. Dealing with lazy-loaded associations, detached entities, how to apply updates, etc are all issues faced when developing an AJAX-based user interface backed by an RPC-style API.

Happy New Year everyone!

Some time ago I published an article at jroller in order to show how the rich:calendar performance can be improved by using single component instance for all the date inputs on the form. Today I want to use the same workaround to solve another popular problem.

Since the release of Weld and Java EE 6, there's been a heap of activity in the Weld user forum, and especially a lot of questions about problems related to framework development. You can do some kinds of generic programming in CDI just using managed beans, producer methods and InjectionPoint. But if you want to get serious, you're eventually going to have to embrace the portable extension SPI. Here's a couple of examples of how people are using this SPI.

The Weld team has recently collaborated with members of the community, most notably Steven Boscarine, to provide you with a set of Maven archetypes that get you developing with CDI and JSF 2 in a jiffy. Today we are announcing that the 1.0.0-BETA1 version of the archetypes are available in the Maven Central Repository. Consider it a holiday present from us ;)