Team, You will be interested in JSR-299 (CDI), Weld & the Future of Seam presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/mojavelinux/jsr299-cdi-weld-the-future-of-seam-javaone-2010 Also see http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/javaone_2010_java_ee_6 --Thanks, Rohit