Web Beans (JSR-299) draft available
The JSR299 draft is now available for public review, have a look at it (and leave feedback)
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
Your comments are welcomed, send them to jsr-299-comments@jcp.org
JSR-299 Web Beans Early Draft
Gavin has made the Early Draft of JSR 299 available from his blog, go get it and please send feedback (more info available in Gavins post).
Edit, the Early Draft is now available from the JCP site.
Web Beans
In case someone missed last weeks post from Gavin about the JSR299, be sure to take a peak since there are some really nice features, and should give you a better understanding of what to expect when we hit public draft.
- Web Beans Sneak Peek Part I: Introducing Web Beans
- Web Beans Sneak Peek Part II: Injection, binding annotations and component types
- Web Beans Sneak Peek Part III: Declaring components using XML
- Web Beans Sneak Peek Part IV: Scopes, contexts and resolver methods
- ..And Gavin’s comments on comments
JSR 316 a.ka Java EE 6
Posted yesterday were the JSR316, or the umbrella JSR for EE 6. (well it was posted as JSR313 a while ago). So the news?
Included “new” JSRs
As well as updated versions of EJB, JPA, Servlet, JSF, JAX-WS, and the Java EE Connector API.
Good news nonetheless.
JSR299 Session at JavaOne
Gavin & Bob will be holding a JSR299 Session at JavaOne-2007. Don´t miss it!
Session details (as found on JavaOne site).
JSR 299, Web Beans, aims to unify the JavaServer Faces technology-based managed bean component model with the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component model, resulting in a significantly simplified programming model for web-based applications. This session covers
• The background of the Web Beans effort
• Expert group membership
• The purpose and scope of the Web Beans specification
• The Web Beans programming model
• The impact on other JSRs: EJB 3 architecture; JavaServer Faces platform; Java EE
• The current status of JSR 299
• Open issues
• Q&A
Minor update..
Well just a quick update what has been going on lately.
Another certification…
Last week I completed (and cleared) the Certified JBoss Developer, the test was quite interesting and a good followup to the the JBoss for Advanced J2EE Developer course I attended a couple of weeks back. Quite interesting to write an open-book certification, where you get 24h to complete the test (taking it at home). I recommend the course to anyone looking for the nitty-gritty details about JBoss AS (although you can pick up the information by reading the JBoss AS Guide). Although certification really doesn’t tell you anything, it can be a good edge to get interesting gigs.
Joined a JSR expert group..
Since I joined the JCP almost 10months ago, I have been more of a lurker (I haven’t participated actively in any JSRs). The time of change is here, some months ago I requested to join the JSR299 (WebBeans) expert group, and yesterday I got the approvement email. The JSR is really interesting, for those unfamiliar with it it’s basically Seam in a standardized way (the JSR is lead by Gavin King).
Work, work, work..
It has been real busy week at work (both client wise and internally). My current project is nearing it’s end (implementation wise) and I have had more time to actually do some coding in the project (ie less meetings, management, mentoring). I’ve been concentrating on verifying the overall architecture against the requirements. Also quite a bit of refactoring, moving out some common JSF functionalites to reusable components, this have given me a good chance to really dive into the JSF spec. Hopefully I will make these components available in some form over the coming months, it’s not exactly rocket-science component but usefully small tidbits.
I have also been busy on weekends, late nights migrating the infrastructure from old hardware/software to new servers. To this stage we been quite successfully and we have deprecated some applications, and old hardware. And I have begun to extend, and introduce a SSO solution to our business critical applications (most of them homegrown, and on diffent platforms such as .NET, J2EE, and classic ASP). We settled on CAS which seems to be a proven solution, but we are not quite there yet. We need to plug this into a Microsoft Active Directory for the authentication store, any suggestions here are very much welcome.