Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases of AngularJS, PrimeFaces, MyFaces, Bootstrap, Hadoop, Spring Roo, Tomcat, Arquillian, Spring Framework, Spring Integration, Akka, Solr, Lucene, and more. They also discuss the forking of Node.js, microservices vs app servers, and a recent blog post about why you shouldn’t use JSF. UI Tier RichFaces 4.5.1.Final released MyFaces Core 2.2.6 released PrimeFaces Elite triple released AngularJS 1.3.0 Aria support Bootstrap 3.3.1 released Persistence Tier Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 is released Spring Roo 1.3.0 introduces JDK 8 support Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3 Released Testing Arquillian OSGi 1.1.1.Final released Arquillian Cube Extension 1.0.0.Alpha1 Misc Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 GA Released Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4.RELEASE Available Now Spring Framework 4.1.2 & 4.0.8 & 3.2.12 released Akka 2.3.7 Maintenance Release Apache Tomcat 6.0.43 released Release of Apache DeltaSpike 1.1.0 Apache Camel 2.13.3 Released Apache Solr 4.10.2 released Apache Lucene 4.10.2 released Node.js forked Discussion Is Middleware done for in favor of Microservices? Why You Should Avoid JSF Ian’s slides on integration JSF with front-end frameworks Events No Fluff Just Stuff Jfokus • - Stockholm, Sweden • Feb 2-4th, 2015 • DevNexus • - Atlanta, GA, USA (call for papers is open; Kito and Daniel will both be speaking) • Mar 10-12th, 2015 •