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Last week I griped about some hassles I was having with Seam 2, Java 6, Tomcat, and JBoss Embedded. I grumpily grouched about the grim gloom of an open source world where things break and people don’t get along very well, and how non-fun it is.

And hey presto, what should happen but two Red Hatters read my kvetching and chimed in with some downright helpfulness. First, Jason Greene mentioned this workaround for the bizarre Java 6 ClassNotFoundException I mentioned. Seems there is a magic JVM flag you can provide to revert to the Java 5 classloading behavior if it causes you too much trouble. That’s good to know, and I appreciated the clue.

Second, Chris Alfonso — who’s been asking me when I’m going to get around to fixing my GWT/JSF/Seam demo to work with Seam 2 — said that he’s got a Maven 2 version of the GWTJSF demo building as an EAR that runs under JBoss with EJB3. Which is cool, because I now have a plain old Hibernate version of the Seam 2 blogging demo that deploys under vanilla Tomcat, so it’s nice to have both flavors. (Chris, can you send me your version? I’d like to poke at it some — I won’t post it without your say-so.)

So that’s the great thing about the open source community — it is a community, and people offer each other helping hands. Thanks for brightening my week, guys! You put the fun back in 🙂