On Thursday, April 9th I will be presenting an introduction and preview of Java Server Faces 2.0 at the New England Java Users Group (NEJUG). The talk will be given at Sun's Burlington Massachusetts campus.

I will be covering many the major features in JSF 2.0 including:

• New annotation paradigms
• Integrated Ajax support
• Facelets integration
• Page Parameters
• Resource Handling
• and more...

We will wrap up the discussion with some thought on the future of JSF, JSR 299, and RichFaces. Plus I'll have some goodies for the raffle.

Registration is required, and more information can be found at the NEJUG website.

Hope to see you there!!

RichFaces 3.3.1.BETA3 has been uploaded to the JBoss repository. We are getting close to the release and continue to stabilize the code base on the way to final release.

Highlights of RichFaces 3.3.1

• Realworld demo [Wiki Page]
• New layout components <rich:page/>, <rich:layout/>, and <rich:layoutPanel/>
• New ColorPicker component <rich:colorPicker/>
• Lots of stabilization and bug fixing - Release Notes

Give it a try, and please let us know if you run into any issues!

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RichFaces 3.3.1.BETA2 has been uploaded to the JBoss repository. We continue to stabilize the code base on the way to final release.

Highlights of RichFaces 3.3.1

• New layout components <rich:page/>, <rich:layout/>, and <rich:layoutPanel/>
• New ColorPicker component <rich:colorPicker/>
• Maven Resource Dependency Plugin
• Queue mechanism updated RF-5788
• Context menu improvements RF-3532
• rich.isUserInRole() added for security integrations Acegi and etc..). RF-6551
• Modal Panel DOM reposition made configurable. RF-5588 (released in 3.3.0 but not announced)
• JQuery script updated to 1.3.2 version
• Lots of stabilization and bug fixing - Release Notes

Give it a try, and please let us know if you run into any issues!

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I'll cover the basics of Seam and whats in store for the future. If the demo gods are smiling I will also be showing off seam-gen and reverse engineering a CRUD application as well.

Date: March 25th today

When: 6:00PM EST and should last until 7:30-8:00PM

Where: 506 Main Street, Westbrook ME

See techMaine site for more details.

If your in the area, see you there.

JBoss Tattletale 1.0.Beta2 was released today featuring new reports and important bug-fixes.

JBoss Tattletale is a tool that can help you get an overview of the project you are working on or a product that you depend on. The tool will recursive scan a directory for JAR files and generate linked and formatted HTML reports.

JBoss Tattletale now features the following reports to help you with the quality of your project:

Dependencies

• Dependents
• Depends On
• Transitive Dependents
• Transitive Depends On

Reports

• Class Location
• Eliminate Jar files with different versions
• Multiple Jar files
• Multiple Locations
• No version

Furthermore we have included an initial implementation of the ClassLoaderStructure interface for JBoss Application Server 4.x and JBoss Application Server 5.x which will scope the archives based on classloader constraints.

All users should upgrade to this release.

JBoss Tattletale is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or later.

We hope that JBoss Tattletale will help you in your development tasks !

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