http://forge.jboss.org/news/2013/10/03/post-forge-2.html We are pleased to announce the release of “Lucky Thirteen”, a Forge Runtime that features a streamlined programming model for Addon developers (no more @Exported annotation,) as well as a wide array of new Commands for developing Java EE applications. ***** Resource Transactions and Resource Change Monitoring ***** There are a lot of exciting features (as you can see by the release notes below); however, there are some outstanding features that we are proud to present. The first of which are resource transactions and monitoring. ***** Release Notes – Check out all the new stuff! ***** Bug [FORGE-1192] – Ill behaved addons can screw up the command popup in Eclipse [FORGE-1203] – Furnace CDI is unable to create proxies for services that are backed by Weld proxies (@ApplicationScoped, etc) [FORGE-1206] – Imported<?>.get() has a different behavior compared to iterator() [FORGE-1223] – CheckboxTableControlBuilder does not properly initialize data collection when default values are set Enhancement [FORGE-757] – Forge tests should delete the created folders [FORGE-1196] – Rename flag forge.compatibility.IDE to forge.standalone [FORGE-1239] – UISelectOne and UISelectMany components could have dynamic value choices Feature Request [FORGE-220] – Forge should listen to filesystem changes on the system and publish events for plugins to observe [FORGE-801] – Support for Transactional Resources [FORGE-846] – Create a template processor addon [FORGE-1193] – Eclipse plugin doesn't handle subflows correctly [FORGE-1194] – Support addition of warnings to a validation context [FORGE-1195] – Support addition of information messages to a validation context [FORGE-1197] – Eclipse plugin should render a Spinner component for Number types [FORGE-1198] – UIValidationContext should reference the current input being validated [FORGE-1200] – Add A@Column(length) on Entity attributes of type String [FORGE-1202] – Furnace Maven plugin should allow generation of the full addon dependency graph [FORGE-1205] – Migrate CommandScoped to Forge 2 [FORGE-1217] – UIProvider should provide a isGUI() method Task [FORGE-1111] – Write a test to ensure that furnace fails deployment if multiple containers are specified Sub-task [FORGE-1171] – Port the JMS commands [FORGE-1174] – Port the JSTL commands [FORGE-1175] – Port the JTA commands [FORGE-1176] – Port the JAX-RS (REST) commands [FORGE-1177] – Port the Servlet commands [FORGE-1178] – Port the JAX-WS (SOAP) commands [FORGE-1179] – Port the Bean validation commands -- Lincoln Baxter, III JBoss, by Red Hat lbaxter(a)redhat.com "If you want something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."