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 •