Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from SpringSource, PrimeFaces, ICEfaces, Apache, JBoss, Eclipse, and TypeSafe. They also discuss a report that claims using Spring lowers code quality, “stateless” JSF views, and Java security FUD.

New Releases Spring

Spring Integration Releases

• SPRING INTEGRATION 2.2.1 AND 2.1.5 RELEASED
• SPRING INTEGRATION 3.0.0 MILESTONE 1 IS RELEASED!

Other Spring Releases

• SPRING DATA RELEASE TRAIN ARORA AVAILABLE

• SPRING HATEOAS 0.4 RELEASED
• SPRING BATCH 2.2.0.M1 RELEASED  
• SPRING FOR APACHE HADOOP 1.0 RC2 RELEASED
• SPRING MOBILE 1.1.0.M2 RELEASED

Spring – Discussion

• * Controversial * Adding Spring to application lowers code quality

PrimeFaces

New components:

• jQuery Range Slider Added to PrimeFaces
• PrimeFaces global tooltip
• Improved scrolling and resize support (percentage-based widths, data table/tree table)

• New comment box component
• Mobile dialog

Releases:

• PrimeFaces 3.5 trailer revealed: in-cell editing, multi-column ajax sorting, horizontal tree
• PrimeFaces 3.5 RC1 released (Jan 21) component, spreadsheet style row freezing for data table, new galleria component, right-to-left language support, accessibility and more

• PrimeFaces 3.5 Final released (Feb 4)
• PrimeFaces 3.5 user guide released (Feb 4)

Other news:

• New PrimeFaces Themes 1.0.9 Released
• PrimeFaces digital swag – desktop wallpapers
• PrimeFaces jQuery theme converter tool
• Phasing out IE7 support
• PrimeFaces Cookbook released (Jan 22)  – Oleg Varaksin & Mert Çal??kan
• PrimeFaces maintenance policy changes – PrimeFaces PRO and PrimeFaces Elite
• • PRO = certified builds for point releases (3.5.1, 3.5.2 etc) + support
  • Elite = pay $49 per point release for early access to stable builds
  • No plan = get stable builds when they are released (3.5, 3.6 etc), can maintain own branch of PF code and merge from the dev branches to get latest fixes

ICEfaces News

• ICEmobile EE 1.2 now available
• ICEfaces EE 3.2.0.GA now available
• ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.GA_P06 now available

Enterprise Tools

• SPRING TOOL SUITE AND GROOVY/GRAILS TOOL SUITE 3.2.0.M2 RELEASED
• Oracle Announces General Availability of NetBeans IDE 7.3 New Betas for IBM WebSphere Application Server and Developer Tools

Apache News

• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Flex™ as a Top-Level Project
• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra™ v1.2
• [ANN] Apache Maven 3.0.5 released

JBoss News

• Arquillian GWT Testing extension 1.0.0.Alpha1 Released  
• Bean Validation TCK 1.1.0.CR1 and Hibernate Validator 5.0.0.CR1 Released
• m2e-wtp 0.17.0 has been released!
• Hibernate ORM 4.1.10.Final Released  
• Portlet Bridge 3.2.0.Beta1 Released
• ModeShape 3.1.2.Final is available  
• Forge 1.2.1.Final Released
• Infinispan 5.2.1.Final is out!
• Weld 2.0.0.Beta3  
• RichFaces 4.3.0.Final Release Announcement (IH)
• HornetQ 2.3.0.CR1  

Other

• Eclipse RAP Project Release 2.0 Now Supports Native Client Platform
• Mojarra 2.1.19 has been released
• Mojarra Introduces “Stateless” JSF Views
• MyFaces setTransient() method
• GMaps4JSF 3.0.0

Scala News

• Scala 2.9.3-RC2 now available!
• Scala 2.10.1-RC1 now available!
• Scala 2.10.0 now available!
• Akka 2.1.0 Released
• Play 2.10 Released
• Slick 1.0.0

Other

Discussion: Is Java Secure? Will FUD Kill the Java Enterprise?

Events No Fluff Just Stuff

• Madison, WI
• • Mar 1 – 2
• Minneapolis, MN
• • Mar 8 – 10
• Boston, MA
• • Mar 15 – 17
• New York, NY
• • Apr 5 – 6
• St. Louis, MO
• • Apr 12 – 13
• Conference for Enterprise Software Solutions (CONFESS) – Vienna, Austria
• • April 3-5th
• JAXConf – Santa Clara, CA – US
• • June 3-5th
• Devoxx France – Paris, France
• • March 27th-29th
• Devoxx UK– London, UK
• • March 26th-27th
• Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise –  Philadelphia, PA, US
• • April 2nd-3rd, 2013
• OSCON – Portland, Oregon, US
• • July 22nd-26th