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The latest milestone release, M4 of JBoss AS 6 has been released and can be downloaded from the usual place . This new release adds some important Java EE 6 functionality and fixes a very important bug, JBAS-8024 , which effectively stops you from deploying Weld applications to the server. Weld deployments worked in M2, but stopped working in M3 meaning you had to either use a development snapshot or revert back to M2. Full release notes for this version are available here .

Last week RichFaces 4.0.0.M1 was released.  If you are using Maven, then its relatively easy to upgrade from Alpha2 to M1. If you’ve not started using RichFaces 4 yet in your applications, then full details of how to install RichFaces in a Maven application are provided on the JBoss Wiki . To upgrade from A2 to M1, should just be a matter of upgrading the version number in your pom.xml file, cleaning and building your project.  The main thing to note however is that the version number is “4.0.0.20100715-M1″ rather than simply “4.0.0.M1″ as would have been expected. An upgraded version property would therefore read as: <properties>   <org.richfaces.ui.version>4.0.0.20100715-M1</org.richfaces.ui.version> </properties> After upgrading the version of RichFaces however, I found a problem in that dependencies on org.w3c.css.sac and net.sourceforge.cssparser.cssparser are not properly discovered. Without these additional Jars, the following exception...

With the release of a new version of Eclipse, its natural to download it and start using it straight away. One of the main problems doing this however, is that plugins aren’t always guaranteed to work with the new version of Eclipse. This is the case with JBoss Tools. Fortunately however, you can install the JBoss Tools nightly builds as these are now compatible with Eclipse Helios. The easiest way to install JBoss Tools Nightly on Helios is via the update center at: http://downloads.jboss.org/jbosstools/nightly/trunk/ When I first attempted to install JBoss Tools on Helios though I got the following error: An error occurred while installing the items session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.mozilla.xpcom 1.9.1.2a, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction). The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.mozilla.xpcom,1.9.1.2a was not found. Eclipse...

I’ve just posted a review of "GlassFish Security" by Masoud Kalali over on developinjava.com If you’re interested in security and/or GlassFish, I’d recommend this book. Check out the review here .