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

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