Here is a chapter excerpt from the new Practical JBoss Seam Projects book: click here to download.

This week, Apress publishes its second book on the popular open source Java EE 5 application development framework, JBoss Seam. Written by enterprise Java expert and best selling author, Jim Farley…

With JavaOne here and the likely anticipated news of an official Java EE 6 and JSF 2 proposal, here’s an Apress book excerpt on Using Rich Internet Technologies, revisiting the acclaimed Pro JSF and Ajax by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows.

From InfoQ.com: See JBoss Seam and Hibernate founder/lead Gavin King’s wishlist for Java EE 6.

Sun announces the creation of Project Woodstock. Woodstock is a new Java.net open source project that provides an extensive set of JavaServer Faces (JSF) components

TheServerSide.com is reporting the release of JBoss Seam 1.1, which features support for RAD/IDE tools, added J2EE 1.4 deployment (and Tomcat), easy CRUD application creation, ready-to-use AJAX components, better JSF validation, and more. For more on Seam, Apress will be publishing Beginning JBoss Seam in Feb 2007.

Here’s the official Sun Java EE 5 Tutorial. Use this in addition to Apress series of Java EE 5 books found in Java catalog.

c/net News.com reports: Sun Microsystems announced the availability of two new sets of developer tools for its open source NetBeans IDE on Wednesday.

While you’re waiting for Beginning JBoss Seam from Apress, check out the currently available tutorial reference on Seam, essentially the definitive guide to JBoss Seam, available now online from Red Hat JBoss.