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InfoQ has published a their questions and my answers about CDI and Weld.

Gavin pointed out to me that my script to build the Weld distribution was broken, so I've create Weld 1.0.0 SP1 (Service Pack 1) which remedies this. You can now find Weld's sources and binaries in artifacts/weld and the CDI API source, javadoc and binary in artifacts/cdi. Download it from here.

I'm pleased to announce the release of Weld 1.0.0 - the announcements have been flowing in over the last few days, but this is my favorite!

Mark Little, the CTO of JBoss, blogged about our vision for component models in JBoss platforms - he gives a great overview, describing how Seam (and JSR-299/Weld) will form the core programming model.

I've posted the CDI TCK 1.0.0 on seamframework.org. You can read the docs or download the TCK for your use.

Today, Red Hat submitted the final draft of JSR-299[1], which now goes under the moniker CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection), along with the Reference Implementation and TCK. Check out the spec[1] and Javadoc.

I put a whole bunch of work into the Javadoc for CDI recently. You can see it here. There's a good overview of the spec in the package doc for javax.enterprise.inject.

Nick Belaevski is the RichFaces dev lead in Minsk and has officially joined the JSF 2.0 Expert Group (JSR-314) along with Alex Smirnov to represent RichFaces and Exadel. As many of you know Dan Allen and Pete Muir are also on the JSF 2.0 Expert Group representing Red Hat & JBoss. Together these 4 people along with the rest of the EG will continue to help advance JSF as a standard and a technology.

Dan Allen has been writing a series of articles covering ideas from Seam that made it into JSF2. The latest installment covers view parameters and creating bookmarkable links. Seam users should find this stuff extremely familiar.