JBoss Seam - Web 2.0 enabled!

Today, I evaluated the newest web development offering from JBoss named Seam. The philosophy behind JBoss Seam is to provide a tight integration between Web and Transaction (UI-EJB-DB) thereby strives to enable rapid web application development. Tight integration in this context means a single framework for defining business services, DB entities that tie directly to the UI components and allow applications to maintain stateful data through a statful persistence context. This framework inherits and incorporates various technical artifacts/philosophies from some of the most popular exisiting frameworks including JSF, EJB 3.0, DI, Ruby on Rails, AJAX support etc.

This will be a framework to watch moving forward in 2007!

Windows CardSpace for Firefox

Windows CardSpace, Microsoft's newest offering of Identity Management which is bundled as part of IE 7.0. It provides the ability for websites to request user identity. Today, an extension for FireFox supporting CardSpace is released.

Click here to download the FireFox extension for CardSpace.