Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from Oracle, IBM, SpringSource, PrimeFaces, ICEfaces, Apache, JBoss, NetBeans, eXo Platform, and more. They also discuss coud IDEs and RESTful web framework benchmarks.

New Releases   Spring News

Spring Integration 2.2.3 is Now Available

Rest.js 0.9 Released

When.js 2.0 is now available

SPRING DATA REST 1.1.0.M1 RELEASED

Spring-AMQP 1.1.4.RELEASE is now Available

PrimeFaces News

Partners with Async IO

PrimeTek Informatics

PrimeFaces 3.5.1 release for PrimeFaces Elite subscribers

PrimeFaces 3.4.4 released

ICEfaces News

ICEfaces 3.3 RC1 now available

ICEpdf 5.0 BETA

Apache News

Release of Apache Cayenne, version 3.1B2

Release of Apache Commons Math, version 3.20

Release of Apache Commons FileUpload, version 1.3

Release of Apache Tomcat, version 7.0.39

Release of Apache PDFBox, version 1.8.0

Release of Apache Commons Logging, version 1.1.2

Release of Apache Accumulo, version 1.4.3

Release of Apache Commons Compress, version 1.50

Release of Apache Cocoon, version 2.1.12

Release of Apache Lucene Core, version 4.2

Release of Apache Solr, version 4.2

Release of Apache Ant, version 1.9.0

Release of Apache Commons Email, version 1.3.1

Release of Apache Tobago, version 1.5.9

Release of Apache HTTP, version 2.4.4

Enterprise Tools

EARLY BUILDS OF JAVA EE 7 ENABLED NETBEANS ARE AVAILABLE

Play in NetBeans IDE 7.3

SPRING TOOL SUITE AND GROOVY/GRAILS TOOL SUITE 3.2.0 RELEASED

NetBeans PrimeFaces CRUD Generator

JSFToolbox 4.5 for Dreamweaver released

JBoss News

New Edition – Java Persistence with Hibernate

Bean Validation 1.1 – Final Approval Ballot

Hibernate ORM 4.2.0 Final and 4.1.11 Final Released

Infinispan 5.2.1 Final Released

JBoss EAP 6.1 Alpha Released

Arquillian Container Weld 1.0.0.CR6 Released

Arquillian Persistence Extension 1.0.0.Alpha6 Released

IBM

WDT V9.0 Beta Update!

Oracle

Date and Time API (JSR 310) Now In Java 8

Security Alert for CVE-2013-1493

JSF 2.2 Final Draft handed to the JCP

Other

eXo Platform 4.0 CE beta is out—and it’s under LGPL!

Scala News

Scala 2.10.1 now available!

Announcing Scala IDE 3.0

Announcing Akka 2.1.1

News

ZeroTurnaround Acquires Javeleon, Denmark loses Top Developers to Estonia

ICEfaces Roadmap Update

From eXo Cloud IDE to Codenvy Raising $9 Million Dollars: A Brief History

Other

Framework Benchmarks

Events No Fluff Just Stuff

• New York, NY
• • Apr 5 – 6
• St. Louis, MO
• • Apr 12 – 13
• JAXConf – Santa Clara, CA – US
• • June 3-5th
• OSCON – Portland, Oregon, US
• • July 22nd-26th
• 4th Scala Days Conference to run in New York City
• • June 10-12
• JavaOne Russia  Moscow
• • Apr 23-24
• IBM Impact 2013, Las Vegas, NV
• • April 28-May 2 (feature WebSphere UNConference, May 2-3)
• JavaOne India  Hyderabad
• • May 8-9
• TDC (The Developer’s Conference) Florianopolis, Brazil (Event for developers, IT professionals and students, with a Java track.)
• • May 24-26
• TDC (The Developer’s Conference) Sao Paulo (Event for developers, IT professionals and students, with a Java track.)
• • July 10-14
• JavaOne China Shanghai
• • July 22-25
• JavaOne, San Francisco (Call for Papers is open until April 12)
• • Sep 22-26