The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.... more »

JBoss is pleased to announce a community beta release of JBoss JSFUnit. JSFUnit is an open source community dedicated to testing JSF applications, based on Cactus and JUnit. It provides three different testing tools: an in-container testing framework, a dramework for JSF static analysis testing, and a JSFTimer for performance testing of the JSF lifecycle.... more »

Want to know what meta-annotations are or how they are being used? Click here for some thoughts on the subject...... more »

The second bug fixing release of the JBoss Application Server v4.2 series is available for download.... more »

This is the second installment of a series of articles describing the current status of the Web Beans specification. You can find the first installment here.... more »

We're now really close to releasing a Community Review Draft for Web Beans. The purpose of the draft is to gather feedback on the component model, dependency management model and extensible context model that we've defined, and hopefully get people excited about Web Beans. We also need to get our work in front of the other EE6-related expert groups, so that they can start thinking about how they can possibly re-use and integrate with some of the mechanisms we have defined. However, the specification is by nature written in highly technical language, so this blog entry is the first in a serious of articles giving a friendly, introductory guide to Web Beans. When the Community Review Draft is released, please take the time to download and review it. But please read this series first.... more »

Which IDE is best for writing Java code? Leaving aside NetBeans (a big assumption given that it now has excellent Ruby and JRuby integration), the choice was between Intellij or Eclipse. IntelliJ while commercial, wasn’t too expensive and ‘just worked’ out of the box. Eclipse, if you were willing to install multiple plugins, could be more powerful but more intimidating.... more »

When I first met JSF I was having another relationship. I had been for 2 years with Struts. In the beginning it seemed to me (Struts) dull and thorny (I had just had a long affair with PHP), but when I met its parents Validator and Tiles, I fell in love. I was convinced by their configuration-files-for-everything approach, and its action-oriented workflow seemed to be a natural way to develop MVC.... more »

I've been working on a relative small project for some months ago (more than a year). Since I began it on the Old Days it was done with Struts + Hibernate. Since then J2EE community has evolved very much, and there are some technologies that make my old fashioned design look old. More specifically, I want Ajax for my users. ... more »

As part of almost sadomasochistic effort vocational software developer have, I'm doing a brief introduction to developing with RichFaces, from new IDE installation until minimal working application. The aim is not doing a tutorial, neither howto nor step by step (if you're reading this I suppose you don't want anybody to tell you to press 'next'). ... more »