In Relation To

As I'm sure you've all seen, Java EE 6 has gone final. You can now download the Final Release of the Contexts and Dependency Injection, Bean Validation, Java Persistence API 2 and Java Servlet 3 specifications from jcp.org, and read the linked javadoc for the entire platform. It's also a good chance to check out the Java API for RESTful Web Services specification, which now includes CDI integration, if you havn't already.

I just updated the Examples Guide for Weld 1.0 on the newly released JBoss AS 6.0.0.M1, including how to load the projects into Eclipse.

How do you follow the fantastic news of the week with the Java EE6 platform and CDI getting final approval ? How about a JBoss AS release that includes support for three key EE6 features: CDI, Bean Validation, and JSF 2?

The Java EE 6 platform, along with Contexts and Dependency Injection, Bean Validation, EJB 3.1, JPA 2 and Servlet 3 have just been approved by the JCP EC. This completely changes the landscape for people developing web and enterprise applications in Java. There's just so much to digest here, and so many problems that are finally solved. EE 6 is something of a new start, and the beginning of a whole new ecosystem. Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Weld logo feedback :-)

James and Cheyenne (from the JBoss.org design team) have been hard at work creating a logo. We've worked through a few designs, and picked a few that we want to share with the community and get feedback on.

I've alluded to our plans for the CDI TCK, but I wanted to expand upon them. We're pretty proud of the fact that the CDI TCK is open source (something we share in common with Bean Validation and JSR-330 in the Java EE space), and we intend to treat the TCK like any other open source project (as far as possible within the constraints set by the JCP).