This is the first episode of the JSF and Java EE newscast, hosted by Kito D. Mann and Ian Hlavats. This monthly newscast covers the latest headlines in the world of JavaServer Faces and Enterprise Java development.

General

• Hudson/Jenkins

• Hudson’s future (original blog post about the split) http://jenkins-ci.org/content/hudsons-future
• Oracle responds to Jenkins fork http://www.sdtimes.com/link/35290

• JSFToolbox for Dreamweaver http://www.jsftoolbox.com
• JSF Summit / JAX 2011 http://www.jsfsummit.com

JSF 2 Component Suites

• PrimeFaces 2.2 (Feb 6) http://cagataycivici.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/primefaces-2-2-is-released/
• PrimeFaces 3.0 due April 11 for CONFESS conference

• Trailer: http://vimeo.com/18079550

• ICEfaces 2.0 (Dec 21st)

• Intro video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwOcfdx2XrM
• JSFCentral interview with Ted Goddard: http://www.jsfcentral.com/articles/goddard-01-11.html

• PortletFaces bridge 2.0 beta 3 (Dec 16) http://www.portletfaces.org/projects/portletfaces-bridge
• RichFaces 4.0.0.M5 (Jan 11th) http://relation.to/18042.lace

• Final version expected in March

• OpenFaces 3.0 (Nov 3) https://sites.google.com/a/teamdev.com/openfaces-support/updates/openfaces30releasenotes

• MyFaces Trinidad 2.0 beta-1 (Jan 24) http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/index.html

Other

• Mojarra 2.1RC 2 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2011/01/28/mojarra-210-release-candidate-2-availabl-1
• MyFaces Extensions CDI .092 (aka MyFaces CODI; Jan 16)
• MyFaces Test 1.0.1 (not officially released, but available) http://myfaces.apache.org/test/
• MyFaces Portlet Bridge 2.0 (Jan 14) http://myfaces.apache.org/portlet-bridge/index.html
• JBoss Seam 2.2.1.Final

• Demos work in JBoss 6

• JBoss Seam 3.0.1Beta1 (Jan 30) http://relation.to/Bloggers/Seam300Beta1Released
• Weld 1.1.0Final (Jan 17) http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Weld110FinalAvailable

• Pete Muir stepping down as project lead