Seam 1.1 GA
The 1.1 made GA today, find out the about the nitty gritty details over at Gavin’s post.
Congrats to the release, there are a quite a bit of new features compared to the 1.0 release.
Go with Pro, or…
I’ve been looking into replacing my now somewhat aging 17” powerbook (1,67Ghz, 2GB RAM), although the Pb is really nice (big screen, reasonably fast) it suffers from a couple of drawbacks.
- To cumbersome – I have been air-commuting for the last year, and the 17” is a bit to big to use and to carry around.
- Development Performance – Using it to as my development machine of choice, the performance has begun to lag behind. It has really started to get on my nerves, mostly the compile/deploy cycle of Java EE development (Netbeans/Eclipse, JBoss AS/Weblogic)
- Slow Virtual PC – I still need to access/use some windows software, not that often but the VirtualPC performance is sub par.
So my plan is to replace it shortly after Christmas, I were dead set on replacing it with a 15” MacBook Pro, but lately I have been beginning to wonder if the MacBook would fit the bill (I plan to hook either on up to a 23” Cinema Display and keyboard/mouse when developing at home) and recent blog post such as this added further decision frustration to the mix.
Any suggestions/recommendations? Is the MacBook good enough, or should I pay the extra premium to get the Pro?
The Mustang is loose..
In case you might have missed, Sun released Java SE 6 today; full details of Java SE 6 are available on java.sun.com. The umbrella JSR 270 covers the key features of this release.
So will you be upgrading? I will for sure (to be perfectly honest I have been running the beta for quite some while, and the experience for desktop use is much better than Java SE 5). For the Enterprise stack I don’t se any urgent needs to upgrade (the adaptation of Java SE 5 isn’t at full speed yet)
Facelets 1.1.12 Released
From Jacobs blog.
Facelets 1.1.12 was just uploaded to Java.net and includes many small bug fixes for JSF 1.1 (MyFaces 1.1.4) and JSF 1.2 (RI 1.2_03b5).
This release is considered ‘draft’ until users call it stable for production use. More information is found over at Facelets’ web site.
If you have missed out on facelets for any reason, now is the time to check it out (but I can’t for the love of * find a decent release note on this particular release)
Edit: Matt kindly points me to the release note
Seam 1.1 CR2 Released
Following fast on the CR1 release of Jboss Seam is a fix of several issues, among these the ability to run the booking example on Glassfish (Running on Glassfish in the past has been possible, but have required some work).
From Gavins blog
Seam 1.1.0.CR2 fixes a number of minor bugs in the CR1 release, and adds some minor improvements. This release includes a version of the booking example application which deploys on GlassFish, the Java EE 5 reference implementation, along with the “hibernate2″ and “jpa” examples which run cross-platform on JBoss 4 (with or without EJB3), GlassFish and Tomcat out of the box, and which may be made to run on any J2EE 1.4 compliant application server. The ICEfaces example has been upgraded to ICEfaces 1.5.1.
Download:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=163777&release_id=467898
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10071&styleName=Html&version=12311064
Enjoy!