Customers asked for it, and we listened. As of today, we have released what we are calling a feature pack on top of EAP 4.3 CP02 (Cumulative Patch Release 2). Sometimes the community gets way ahead of our product, which is the way its supposed to be, but in the case of Seam, customers adoption rates has been very high. With that, we probably had fifty percent of all customer support issues related to Seam based on the Seam 2.0.x code base, instead of the 1.2.1 code base that is actually in the shipping product!
So, a lot of customer adoption and demand, and some very specific cases with customers asking us to fully support Seam 2.0 within the product. With that, we had to make a decision. Do we create an entire new release of EAP, such as an EAP 4.4, or do we come up with a way to get customers Seam 2.0 support on the current release? In looking at those options, it made the most sense for us as a business, and for customers, that we support Seam 2.0 on the currently shipping EAP 4.3 release. Thus the "Feature Pack" was born!
The concept of the "Feature Pack" is simple. We would provide additional features on top of an existing release, maintaining that releases backward compatibility and maintaining the support life-cycle, but provide what customers would normally have to wait for in a minor or major release such as our planned EAP 5 release! In many cases, this just is not possible for some customers, and with Seam 2.0 there are so many compelling features over Seam 1.2.1, that customers really needed to move to that. The catch, of course, is that it was only a community release, and not shipped with our product.
Well, we have taken care of the issues, and customers can now download and apply the feature pack to their existing installations. The feature pack installs Seam 2.0.x in a new directory structure, side-by-side with the older Seam releases, so if you have any Seam applications built with Seam 1.2.1, they will continue to function as they did before, but you can now migrate to Seam 2.0, and get all the new capabilities that come with Seam 2.0! This is exciting news, and we also already have tooling support built into JBDS (JBoss Developer Studio) 1.1!
So, go and download the feature pack, and have fun with all the new capabilities of Seam 2!
So, a lot of customer adoption and demand, and some very specific cases with customers asking us to fully support Seam 2.0 within the product. With that, we had to make a decision. Do we create an entire new release of EAP, such as an EAP 4.4, or do we come up with a way to get customers Seam 2.0 support on the current release? In looking at those options, it made the most sense for us as a business, and for customers, that we support Seam 2.0 on the currently shipping EAP 4.3 release. Thus the "Feature Pack" was born!
The concept of the "Feature Pack" is simple. We would provide additional features on top of an existing release, maintaining that releases backward compatibility and maintaining the support life-cycle, but provide what customers would normally have to wait for in a minor or major release such as our planned EAP 5 release! In many cases, this just is not possible for some customers, and with Seam 2.0 there are so many compelling features over Seam 1.2.1, that customers really needed to move to that. The catch, of course, is that it was only a community release, and not shipped with our product.
Well, we have taken care of the issues, and customers can now download and apply the feature pack to their existing installations. The feature pack installs Seam 2.0.x in a new directory structure, side-by-side with the older Seam releases, so if you have any Seam applications built with Seam 1.2.1, they will continue to function as they did before, but you can now migrate to Seam 2.0, and get all the new capabilities that come with Seam 2.0! This is exciting news, and we also already have tooling support built into JBDS (JBoss Developer Studio) 1.1!
So, go and download the feature pack, and have fun with all the new capabilities of Seam 2!
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