When can we expect SeamIDE & "Seam In Action"?

[cybermac912]

So I've been looking at Seam for the past couple of days. Looks really nice, very promising. Should provide a great model for all kinds of apps. Thanks for the great work!

Two non-technical questions have come to mind:

1) I understand Gavin is probably busy with the next edition of HIA (which, I understand, includes EJB3 support), but is there any plan for a "SIA" book?

2) Will there be a new feature added to the JBossIDE for Seam development (component wizards, diagrams, that kind of thing)?

Thanks
Eric

[gavin.king]

1) actually christian is doing most of the work on HiA2. We do plan to write a book titled "Seamless Enterprise Java" about Seam/EJB3/JSF.

2) Absolutely, tool support is a central part of the vision. We will soon release an update to HibernateIDE that allows reverse engineering of an entire Seam application, much along the lines of what Rails has.