Kito, Ian, and Daniel discuss JavaOne, JSF, web frameworks, mobile development, Internet of Things, and new JBoss, Apache, PrimeFaces, Spring, MySQL, and TypeSafe releases.

UI Tier

JavaOne Update: Kito’s JSF sessions

When the PrimeFaces Bootstrap Theme Isn’t Enough

What’s Next for JSF?

eBay, Connecting Buyers and Sellers Globally via JavaServer Faces

JavaOne Update: ankor.io

JavaOne Update: Web Framework Smackdown

JavaOne Update: Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) (sessions)

JavaOne Update: JSF 2.3 – Integration with Front-End Frameworks

PrimeFaces 5.1 Released

New in RichFaces 4.5: Charts

Middle Tier

JBossWS 4.3.1 Released

Infinispan 7.0.0.CR1 Released

JBoss BPM 6.0.3 Released

Apache Lucene/Solr 4.10.1 Released

Apache Cayenne 3.1 Released

Apache Tomcat 8.0.14 Released

Apache UIMA Ruta 2.2.1 Released

Apache Storm Released as top-level project

Apache TomEE wins Duke’s Choice award at JavaOne

Spring Framework 4.1.1 released

Spring XD 1.0.1 released

Spring Boot 1.1.7 released

Persistence Tier

MySQL REST API introduced

Slick 2.0 GA released

Testing

Arquillian ShrinkWrap 2.2.0-beta-1 released

Arquillian AngularJS 1.2.0-beta-1 Graphene Plugin released

Misc

JavaOne Update: Java 8 Embedded

JDK 8 for Mobile iOS and Android Devices

JavaOne Update: Internet of Things

Universal Development Kit for Creating and Deploying Smart Home/Building Applications

Gateway One

Discussion

JavaOne highlights: Portlet EG meeting, Servlet EG meeting, Java Hub, Java Community Keynote, Duke’s Cafe

Events

• Devoxx – Antwerp, Belgium – November 10th-14th, 2014
• Jfokus – Stockholm, Sweden- Feb 2-4th, 2015
• DevNexus – Atlanta, GA, USA – Mar 10-12th, 2015 (call for papers is open)

No Fluff Just Stuff

• Seattle, WA
• • Oct 17 – 19
• Reston, VA
• • Nov 7 – 9
• Chicago, IL
• • Nov 14 – 16
• Denver, CO
• • Nov 21 – 23
• RWX / CDX
• • Dec 2 – 5

Kito, Ian, and Daniel change up the format to involve more discussion. They discuss the new Java EE JSRs (JSF, JMS, Servlet, CDI, Java API for JSON Binding, etc.) plus entirely new proposals such as MVC and Java API for JSON Binding. Other topics include RichFaces, PrimeFaces, Apache TomEE, Delta Spike, QUnit, Angular.js. Hibernate OGM, Spring Boot, JBoss Errai, and more, plus upcoming conferences.

If you have feedback on the new format, please let us know.

UI Tier

Mojarra 2.2.8 released

PrimeFaces 5.0.5, 4.0.18, 3.5.28 released

RichFaces 4.5.0.Alpha3 released

ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P02 released

JSF 2.3 JSR proposal

Servlet 4.0

Java API for JSON Binding

Spring Framework 4.1 — Spring MVC Improvements

Java EE MVC 1.0 JSR

Middle Tier

Apache TomEE JAX-RS / Arquillian starter project

Delta Spike 1.0 Released

Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java 2.0

It’s time to begin JMS 2.1.

Persistence Tier

Hibernate OGM nominated for Duke’s Choice Award

Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 is released

Apache Sqoop 1.4.5 released

Misc  

Jena 2.12.0 released

Spring XD 1.0 GA Released

Spring Boot 1.1.5 released

Errai 3.1.0.CR1, 3.0.2.Final and 2.4.5.Final released!

Events

• JavaZone – Oslo, Norway – September 9th-11th
• JavaOne – San Francisco, CA September 28 – October 2, 2014
• Devoxx – Antwerp, Belgium – November 10th-14th

No Fluff Just Stuff

• Atlanta, GA
• • Sep 12 – 14
• Boston, MA
• • Sep 19 – 21
• Minneapolis, MN
• • Oct 3 – 4

Kito, Ian, and Daniel discuss new releases from Spring, JBoss, ICEsoft, PrimeFaces, Apache, IBM, and TypeSafe. They also discuss build tools, the future of JSF, Daniel’s languagematrix project, and the Mojarra web site.

Daniel’s project: language-matrix: Code snippets to do useful things for 11 languages: C, C++, Groovy, Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Haskell, Javascript, Lisp, Clojure.

New Releases Spring

Spring Framework 4.0.4 released

Spring Integration 4.0 Released

Spring Social 1.1.0 Released

Spring Boot 1.0.2.RELEASE Available Now

Spring Batch 2.2.6.RELEASE is now available

Spring AMQP 1.3 Released

Groovy 2.3 Released

JBoss

Teiid 8.7 Final Released  

Weld 2.2 (CDI 1.2 reference implementation) released!

JBoss Tools Integration Stack 4.1.4.Final / JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack 7.0.1.GA

ModeShape 3.7.2.Final is available

Hibernate ORM 4.2.12.Final Released

Immutant 1.1.1 Released

Forge 2.4.1.Final (Roasted) Released

Arquillian AngularJS 1.2.0.Alpha1 Released

JavaServer Faces

MyFaces Core v2.2.3 Released

PrimeFaces 5 Released

PrimeFaces Elite 4.0.13 Released

PrimeFaces Extensions 2.0 Released

RichFaces 4.3.6.Final Released

ICEfaces 4.0 Beta Released!

Apache

Apache Lucene 4.8.0 released

Apache Solr 4.8.0 released

Apache Portable Runtime 1.5.1 released  

Apache Archiva 1.3.8 released

Apache jClouds 1.7.2 released

Apache Commons Lang 3.3.2 released

Apache CouchDB 1.5.1 released

Apache Syncope 1.0.9 and 1.1.7 released

Apache Tomcat 7.0.53 released

Apache Struts Zero Day Vulnerability

IBM

Announcing IBM Codename: BlueMix for Eclipse Beta

WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit – Liberty Tech Preview

Announcing: April betas for Liberty profile and WebSphere Developer Tools

Scala

Scala 2.11 Has Arrived!

Typesafe announces Akka Streams, a part of the Reactive Streams Initiative

Activator 1.1 Integrates App Inspection and a New UI

Other

Guava 17 Released

jQuery 1.11.1 and 2.1.1 Released

Git 1.9.2 Released  

IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.2 Update is Available

Updated: Eclipse Foundation Announces Java 8 Support

Java ME 8 Arrives

News

Mojarra site gets a facelift

Events

• JAX 2014 May 12 – 16
• EclipseCon France June 18 – 19

No Fluff Just Stuff

• Salt Lake City, UT
• • May 30 – 31
• Columbus, OH
• • Jun 6 – 8
• Gradle Summit
• • Jun 12 – 13
• ÜberConf (USA)
• • Jun 24 – 27
• ÜberConf (Germany)
• • Jul 7 – 10
• 33rd Degree – Krakow, Poland
• • June 9-11th
• Scala Days Kosmos, Berlin
• • June 16th-18th

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

Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from Spring, MyFaces, ICEsoft, JBoss, Oracle, and Apache. They also discuss responsive design, the Java EE 8 survey, and James Gosling’s Oracle Report Card.

New Releases Spring

Announcing Spring Framework 4.0 GA Release

The Spring Framework 4.1 plan – and 4.0.1 & 3.2.7 releases coming up next week

Spring AMQP 1.3.0.M1 and 1.2.1.RELEASE Available

Spring LDAP 2.0.0.RELEASE Released

JavaServer Faces

MyFaces Core 2.2.0, 2.1.14, 2.0.20 released

What’s new in MyFaces 2.2

RichFaces 5.0.0.Alpha2 Release Announcement

RichWidgets 0.1 Release Announcement

PrimeFaces 4.0.6 and 3.5.22 Released

PrimeFaces 5.0 Roadmap

PrimeFaces Certification Program

Mojarra 2.2.5 and 2.1.27 released  

JSF 2.1.22 major performance improvement

Apache

Commons Lang 2.3.1 Released

JMeter 2.11 Released  

Commons Exec 1.2 Released

Apache Cloudstack 4.2.1 Released

Apache Tomcat 7.0.50

Commons Beanutils 1.9.1 Released

Apache Wicket 6.13.0 Released

Apache Camel 2.11.3 Released

RedHat / JBoss

Portlet Bridge 3.3.1.Final released

ModeShape 3.7.1.Final is available

Red Hat and the CentOS Project Join Forces

Oracle

Java SE Development Kit 7, Update 51 (Includes Jar timestamp warning)

James Gosling Oracle Report Card

Other

Introducing BridgeIt!

Java EE 8 Survey (Part 1) (Part 2)

Jenkins 1.547 Released

News

GlassFish commercial supported versions – January updates

Events No Fluff Just Stuff

• Boston, MA
• • Feb 28 – Mar 2
• Minneapolis, MN
• • Mar 7 – 9
• Madison, WI
• • Mar 14 – 15
• 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  

Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from Spring, PrimeFaces, ICEsoft, JBoss, IBM, Oracle, Apache, and TypeSafe. They also discuss Oracle’s decision to drop support for GlassFish, and RebelLabs’ Decision Maker’s Guide to Java Web Frameworks.

Sorry to post this so late! Apparently moving and getting a podcast up don’t mix…

New Releases Spring News

Spring 3.2.5 released

Spring 4.0 RC1 released

Spring Boot 0.5.0.M6 Released

Spring Integration 2.2.6 is Now Available

Spring Mobile 1.1.0 Released

Spring Data Arora SR3 released

PrimeFaces News

PrimeFaces for .NET Cancelled

Client Side Validation Framework

PrimeFaces 4.0 Released

Async-IO and PrimeTek Partnership

ICEsoft News

ICEpdf 5.0.4 Released

Apache News

RELEASE OF APACHE BIGTOP 0.7.0

APACHE COUCHDB 1.5.0 RELEASE NOTES

APACHE FLEX 4.11 RELEASED!

ISIS 1.3.0 RELEASED

HBASE 0.96.0 RELEASED

APACHE LOG4J EXTRAS 1.2.17 RELEASED

THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES APACHE™ HADOOP 2

ANNOUNCING APACHE CLOUDSTACK 4.2.0

JBoss News

Arquillian Portal Extension 1.1.0.Alpha1 Released

Arquillian Warp for JSF Portlet testing

Infinispan Arquillian Container 1.1.0.Alpha1 released

Arquillian Warp 1.0.0.Alpha5 Released

Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.0.Final Released

Arquillian REST Extension 1.0.0.Alpha1 Released

Arquillian Graphene 2.0 – Functional Testing with Elegance

Arquillian Droidium 1.0.0.Alpha2 Released

Arquillian TestRunner Spock 1.0.0.Beta2 Released

Arquillian Container WebSphere AS 1.0.0.Alpha2 Released

Arquillian Drone Extension 1.2.0.Final Released

Arquillian Extension QUnit 1.0.0.Alpha2 Released

Portlet Bridge 3.3.0.CR1 released

CDI in Standard Portlets with Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.1 Beta

Milestone 2 of Errai 3.0 and Errai 2.4.2.Final released!

Hibernate OGM 4.0.0.Beta4 is out  

ModeShape 3.6.0.Final is available

Teiid 8.6 Alpha2 Posted

Portlet Bridge 3.3.0.Beta2 released

AeroGear Unified Push Server 0.8.1 released

Forge 1.4.2.Final Released

Hibernate Search: 4.4.0.Final released, with 4.5.0.Alpha1 released too

Hibernate ORM 4.2.7.SP1 Released

Hibernate ORM 4.3.0.Beta5 Release

JBoss Tools 4.1.1 Alpha2  

JBoss Data Virtualization 6 Beta

Infinispan 6.0.0.CR1 is available!

JGroups 3.4.0.Final released

Oracle

Release: JDK8 Early Access

Java 7 Update 40

IBM

New in V8.5.5.Next Alpha of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Developer Tools

Scala

Scala 2.10.3 Released

ScalaIDE 4.0 Released

Akka 2.2.3 Released

sbt 0.13 Released

Other

AngularFaces

News

Oracle abandons commercial support for Glassfish (Arun Gupta booked it to RedHat) (All)

JCP Executive Committee Election Results

The 2014 Decision Maker’s Guide to Java Web Frameworks (All)

Events No Fluff Just Stuff

• Denver, CO
• • Nov 15 – 17
• RWX / CDX
• • Dec 3 – 6
• Devoxx, Antwerp, Belgium
• • Nov 11-15
• Spring eXchange Nov 14-15
• • London
• jFokus,  Stockholm, Sweden
• • Feb 3-5  
• Great Indian Developer Summit (Bangalore)
• • April 22-25
• ScalaDays Kosmos, Berlin
• • June 16th-18th

Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from SpringSource, PrimeFaces, ICEsoft, JBoss, IBM, Oracle, and TypeSafe. They also try out recording the newscast using Google Hangouts instead of Skype.

New Releases   Spring News

Spring-AMQP 1.2.0 Release Candidate is Now Available!

Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3 Released

Spring XD 1.0 Milestone 1 Released

SPRING BATCH 2.2.0.RELEASE IS NOW AVAILABLE

SPRING TOOL SUITE AND GROOVY/GRAILS TOOL SUITE 3.3.0.M2 RELEASED

Spring Integration 3.0 milestone 2

TcServer 2.9.2 is now available

PrimeFaces

PrimeFaces Starter Book

JSF 2.2 Pass Through Attributes

New Component: Fragment

Show Message in a Dialog

Dialog Framework

PrimeFaces Elite 3.5.7 Released

ICEsoft

ICEmobile 1.3 released

Apache

Apache Archiva 1.4-M4 released

Apache PDFBox 1.8.2 released

Apache Jackrabbit 2.6.2 released

Apache S4 0.6.0-incubating release

Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.9.0 released

MyFaces Core v2.1.12 Release

Apache CloudStack 4.1.0 Released

Apache Log4j-2.0-beta7 released

Apache Nutch 2.2 Released

Apache Tomcat 7.0.41 released

Apache Commons NET 3.3 released

Apache Traffic Server 3.3.4-dev is released

Apache HttpComponents HttpClient 4.3-beta2 released

Apache Qpid 0.22 released

Apache Syncope 1.1.2 released

Apache Subversion 1.8.0 Released

Apache Lucene 4.3.1 released

Apache Solr 4.3.1 released

Apache jclouds 1.6.1-incubating released

Apache Portable Runtime library 1.4.8 Released

Apache Hama 0.6.2 has been released.

Apache Camel 2.10.5 released

Apache CouchDB 1.3.1 released

Apache Kafka 0.8.0-beta1 Released

Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6-incubating released

JBoss

Better maven integration with the Byteman 2.1.3 release

JBossWS 4.2.0.CR1 and the WS-Policy sets

Infinispan 5.3.0.Final is out!

Forge 1.3.2.Final Released

RHQ 4.8 released

AeroGear.js 1.1.0 Release

Arquillian TestRunner Spock 1.0.0.Beta1 Released

Arquillian Warp 1.0.0.Alpha3 Released

GridLogZ: In-Memory Log Analysis

RichFaces 5.0.0.Alpha1 Release Announcement

Arquillian Google Guice Extension 1.0.0.Alpha1 Released

Arquillian Spring Framework Extension 1.0.0.Beta2 Released

Oracle

Arun Gupta: Eclipse 4.1 Kepler released

Java 7 Update 25 released – 40 security holes patched

Java EE 7 Released

Java EE 7 (Oracle Press Release)

JSF2.2 and HTML5 Article on Infoq

Java EE 7 Introduces WebSocket Support

GlassFish 4 Released

GlassFish 4 Release Notes (PDF)

IBM

WebSphere Application Server and Developer Tools V8.5.5 available now

Scala

Takipi released

Typesafe Activator 0.2.1 Released

Slick 1.0.1 release

Events No Fluff Just Stuff

• ScalaSummit, Crested Butte, Colorado
• • August 19 – 21, 2013
• JavaZone, Oslo, Norway
• • Sep 11-12
• JavaOne, San Francisco
• • Sep 22-26
• Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp
• • November 11-15
• jDays, Gothenburg, Sweden (Call for Papers ends Aug 25th)
• • Nov 26-27

Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from Apache, PrimeFaces, SpringSource, ICEsoft, JBoss, IBM, Oracle, Google, and more. They also discuss the new Google Android IDE and SpringSource’s new Reactor asynchronous framework.

New Releases PrimeFaces

PrimeFaces Themes 1.0.10 Released

PrimeFaces 3.5.3 Released

Responsive Interportlet Communication

PrimeFaces Mobile 0.9.4 Released

PrimeFaces 3.4.5 released

PrimeFaces Extensions 0.7 released – new Timeline component

PrimeFaces 3.5.4 released

ICEsoft

ICEpdf 5 released

ICEfaces 3.3 released, with new ACE components

Apache

MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Struts Project Announces Apache Struts™ 1 End-Of-Life

Apache Syncope 1.1.1 released

Apache CouchDB 1.3.0 released

Apache Wookie 0.14 Release

Apache PDFBox 1.8.1 released

Apache Wink 1.3.0 release

Apache Bloodhound 0.5.3 Released

Apache MRUnit 1.0.0 released

Apache OpenNLP 1.5.3 released

Apache Derby 10.10.1.1 released

Apache Wicket 6.7.0 Released!

OpenJPA 1.2.3 Released

Apache Camel 2.11.0 Released

Apache Whirr 0.8.2 Released

HttpComponents HttpClient 4.2.5 GA release

Apache Sqoop 1.99.2 released

Apache Tomcat 6.0.37 released

Apache Lucene 4.3 released

Apache Solr 4.3 released

Apache Buildr 1.4.12 released

Apache Gora 0.3 Released

Apache Tomcat 7.0.40 released

Apache Jackrabbit 2.7.0 released

Apache JSPWiki 2.9.1-incubating released

Apache Jena 2.10.1 released

Apache Hive 0.11.0 Released

Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc2 Released

SpringSource

Spring Framework 4.0 M1 & 3.2.3 available

Reactor – a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM

SPRING SECURITY 3.1.4 RELEASED

SPRING TOOL SUITE AND GROOVY/GRAILS TOOL SUITE 3.3.0.M1 RELEASED

SPRING BATCH 2.2.0 RC1 IS NOW AVAILABLE

SPRING MOBILE 1.1.0.M3 RELEASED

JBoss

Infinispan 5.3.0.Beta2 is out!

RichFaces 4.3.2.Final Release Announcement

JBossWS 4.2.0.Beta1 and WS-Discovery support

Forge 1.3.0.Final Released

IronJacamar 1.1.0.Beta5 is out !

Teiid 8.4 Beta2 Posted

TorqueBox 2.3.1 Released

JGroups 3.3.0.Final released

RHQ 4.7 released

jBPM 6.0 Beta2 available

Arquillian Drone Extension 1.2.0.Alpha2 Released

Hibernate ORM 4.3.0.Beta2 Released

IBM

Liberty Repository is up

Tomcat Migration Kit Technology Preview Released

Oracle

Oracle ADF Mobile 1.1 Released

Java EE 7 Scheduled for Release June 12th

Oracle JDeveloper and ADF 11g Release 1

Scala

Akka 2.1.4 Released

Other IntelliJ IDEA is the base for Android Studio, the new IDE for Android developers

Events No fluff just stuff

• TDC (The Developer’s Conference) Florianopolis, Brazil – Event for developers, IT professionals and students, with a Java track.
• • May 24-26
• JUDCon / CamelOne, Boston, MA
• • June 9-11, 2013
• EclipseCon France, Toulouse, France
• • June 5-6.
• QCon New York
• • June 12-June 14.
• Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: Big Data, Reading, UK
• • June 19th.
• ODTUG Kscope13 – New Orleans, LA, USA
• • June 23-27
• Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: Service Integration using Oracle SOA Suite 11g, London, UK
• • June 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.
• Scala Days New York, N
• • June 10-12
• JavaZone, Oslo, Norway
• • Sep 11-12
• JavaOne, San Francisco
• • Sep 22-26
• Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp
• • November 11-15
• jDays, Gothenburg, Sweden – Call for Papers ends Aug 25th.
• • Nov 26-27

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

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

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