Not really Seam news, but hey, it's Java and it's using a Seam back-end. However, PayAtThePump is now available on the Google Android platform through the Android Market!

If you're on Android in the UK or the US, go and check it out and let us know what you think. It's free!

Well, not so much problems, but a problem - I can't persist!

Having decided to use RESTEasy on a project we're currently working on rather than using the hand-rolled implementation of REST we were using previously. For read operations, this isn't a problem - however I'm not able to persist any updates.

This is becoming such a problem that I'm getting really, really close to ripping out the update part and going back to the hand-rolled solution just for this area as too much time has been invested to get to this point to revert every other retrieval mechanism. Plus that part works reasonably well (although returning XML doesn't seem as simple as it should be).

If anyone else has some insight into this particular problem, please let me know before I spend a couple of days implementing a replacement solution.

Some background: we're using POJOs, Seam 2.1.0 SP1 and PostgreSQL on JBoss 4.2.3. The persist call grabs the next value from hibernate_sequence but doesn't write anything else into the logs. The one class we're trying to persist has the @ID as a long, one String and a Float object.

Hot on the heels of the CR2 release a few days ago, the Seam team have released the GA version of 2.1.1. There aren't many bugs from the CR2 release so I thought I would actually list all the bugs for once

• [JBSEAM-3682] - empty data for date type throws exception in JXLHelper.createCell


• [JBSEAM-3802] - Seamspace example - pages.xml is not a valid xml document


• [JBSEAM-3803] - Openid example - typo in faces-config.xml


• [JBSEAM-3817] - logLevel is not the correct name for the attribute, log-level is


• [JBSEAM-3819] - grammar in http://docs.jboss.com/seam/latest/reference/en-US/html/tutorial.html


• [JBSEAM-3830] - e:cell doesn't support null values


• [JBSEAM-3834] - ClassCastException in Cell Column With Empty Date


• [JBSEAM-3843] - Seamspace example - pages.xml uses logLevel attribute

Also just released is the Reference Implementation of Web Beans 1.0.0 (Alpha 1) over here. I have been keeping an eye on the Web Beans stuff that's out there and that keeps popping up on the blogs and it is looking very interesting. Hopefully I will have a little time over the holidays to have a quick look at it... although I have promised myself that I will get two iPhone applications finished and look at Android (and read a couple of books and implement some new cool features on Pay At The Pump...) so there may be a blog posting about WB in the new year.

The latest CR release of JBoss Tools is available for download. There are a whole bunch of bug fixes and new features in this release - too many for me to list in detail.

I had upgraded to the latest version of JBoss tools prior to this release and it is much improved over the version I was previously using: much more stable. One of the major issues I had was that preview in the JSF editing view usually didn't show anything, however has been considerably better with the more recent release. Although I have had issues when using f:selectItems with preview. There is a resolved bug regarding f:selectItem (singular) so I think I may grab this release and see if my issue is resolved.

The latest version of Seam (2.1.1.CR2) is up over in the usual place. From the release notes there are a couple of AS 5 related bugs, an upgrade to RichFaces, and a couple of NPE / missing reference bugs.

The first release candidate for Seam 2.1.1 is up over on sourceforge. There's the usual raft of bug fixes and new features listed in the release notes. One exiting new feature for me is support for OpenID.

The fine folks over at Hibernate have released the first release candidate for Hibernate Search 3.1.0 over here. The main work in this release is to bring Hibernate Search into line with Lucene's new features and a few performance tweaks.

Over on Shane Bryzak's blog there is a post with a very good run down of the new security features in Seam 2.1.0 along with an example of how to use the features.

Over on JSF Central, there is an interview with Pete Muir about the Seam 2.1 release. The mp3 of the interview is also available.

Just released is the first Beta version of JBoss Tools 3.0.0 over on sourceforge. Whoever uploads these needs to work on the formatting of the release notes as they're pretty much unreadable! From what I can tell, there's a whole bunch of bug fixes and new features. As always!