Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from Spring, MyFaces, TypeSafe, JBoss, Oracle, and Apache. They also discuss the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, the state of JavaServer Faces, Angular.js, Eclipse, and more.

New Releases Spring

• Spring Data “Codd” release train released
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.0 GA Released
• Spring AMQP 1.3.0 Release Candidate Available
• Spring Data Redis 1.2 GA Released
• Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC4 Available Now
• Spring Mobile 1.1.1 Released
• Spring Framework 4.0.2 & 3.2.8 Released
• Spring Framework 4.0.1 & 3.2.7 released – and 3.1.x retired  
• Grails 2.3.7 Released  

JavaServer Faces

• Mojarra 2.1.28 released
• PrimeFaces 4.0.9 released
• PrimeFaces Mobile Reloaded
• MyFaces Core 2.2.1, 2.1.15, 2.0.21 released
• • New Features in MyFaces Core 2.2
• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar 2014
• PrimeFaces response on ThoughtWorks Radar JSF article

Apache (Gutted most of it, so Kito can finish up)

• Apache Spark becomes top-level project
• Apache Commons Compress 1.8 Released
• Apache Solr 4.6.1 released  
• Apache Lucene 4.6.1 released
• HttpComponents HttpClient 4.3.2 Released  
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.50 released  

RedHat / JBoss

• WildFly 8.0.0.Final released
• JBoss JBPM Suite 6 released

Oracle

• Java 8 Launch

Scala

• Akka 2.3.0 Major Release  

Other

• AppFuse 3.0 – Java 7, Spring 4, PrimeFaces, Mockito, Bootstrap 3, Wicket
• Netty 4.0.17.Final released

News

• Java EE Survey Results
• RebelLabs’ Report: Java Builds Part 2

Events No Fluff Just Stuff

• Madison, WI
• • Mar 14 – 15
• New York, NY
• • Apr 4 – 5
• St. Louis, MO
• • Apr 11 – 12
• Reston, VA
• • Apr 25 – 27
• Dallas, TX
• • May 2 – 4
• Uberconf in Denver 2014
• Great Indian Developer Summit (Bangalore)
• • April 22-25
• Emerging Tech for the Enterprise
• • April 22-23, 2014
• ScalaDays Kosmos, Berlin
• • June 16th-18th
• OSCON, Portland, OR
• • July 20–24, 2014