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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
Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from SpringSource, PrimeFaces, ICEfaces, Apache, JBoss, and Liferay. They also discuss the pros and cons of the new Spring Migration Analyzer, as well as Getting Things Done and Pomodoro Technique. New Releases Spring News Spring Framework 3.2 goes GA Introducing Spring Scala Spring Security 3.2.0.M1 Released Spring Social Yammer 1.0.0 Released Spring for Android 1.0.1 Released Cloud Foundry Maven Plug-in version 1.0.0.M4 Released Spring Migration Analyzer PrimeFaces News PrimeUI 0.4 Released Featuring Lightbox - Background on PrimeUI PrimeFaces vs PrimeFaces PRO Custom Content in Menubar PrimeUI 0.3 Released PrimeUI Panel Widget ICEfaces News ICEfaces 3.2.0 released (Nov 2) ICEmobile 1.2 released (Dec 12) Apache News MyFaces Core v2.1.10 Release MyFaces Core v2.0.16 Release Apache Tomcat 7.0.34 released Release of Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator 1.2.6 and 2.0.6 Apache Rave 0.18 release Apache Syncope 1.0.4 Apache Nutch 1.6 Released Apache TomEE JBoss News Hibernate ORM 4.1.9.Final Released Teiid 8.3 Alpha1 Posted TorqueBox 2.2.0 Released GateIn Portal 3.5.0.Final Release Weld 2.0.0.Beta1 Byteman 2.1.2 has been released Hibernate Validator 5.0.0.Alpha2 and 4.3.1.Final IronJacamar 1.1.0.Beta3 is out jBPM Designer 2.4.0.Final released! Bean Validation 1.1 Beta 2 is out HornetQ Beta2 Released ModeShape 3.0.1.Final is available Overlord: Milestone 2 of their Business Activity Monitoring tooling, including a screencast of some of the new features Overlord: Savara 2.1 Milestone 2, enhancing the support for SwitchYard java service simulation. Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.0.Alpha2, extracting the JTA transaction support into a separate module Arquillian Container Weld 1.0.0.CR5 Teiid Admin Web Console 1.0 CR1, a new GWT based administrative console for Teiid SwitchYard 0.6 Beta 2 JBoss TS 4.17.2.Final Portlet Bridge 3.1.0.Final From the Drools team: first public release of UberFire, a web based workbench forming the basis of their consoles Other Announcement: Liferay Faces 3.1.1-ga2 Released News Java EE 7 Community Survey Results Enterprise Tool News JBoss Tools 4 Beta and JBoss Developer Studio 6 Beta Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.2.0.M1 released Events No Fuff Just Stuff CodeMash January 8-11, 2013 DevNexus Feb 18-19, 2013
Kito, Ian, and Daniel discuss PrimeFaces, ICEfaces, Spring Tools Suite, JBoss Developer Studio, Spring Data, Hibernate, Arquillian, Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource, Java developer shortages, and more. New Releases PrimeFaces Twitter Bootstrap Theme PrimeFaces Mobile Roadmap Update Spring Shell 1.0 M1 released Spring Security 3.1.1 Released Spring GemFire 1.1.2 has been released! Spring Data release train reaches RC station Spring AMQP 1.1.2 Released Spring Security OAuth 1.0.0.RC2 released WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit Version 3.5 ICEmobile 1.1 Final now available ICEmobile-SX 1.1 on the App Store ICEfaces 3.1 Released The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Deltacloud™ v1.0 Conventions Framework 0.9.6 JBoss Portlet Bridge 3.1.0.Alpha1 Released - RichFaces 4 Component support! RedHat SwitchYard to replace JBoss ESB SwitchYard 0.5 Final Released JBoss Teiid 8.1 released RichFaces 4.3.0.M1 Release Announcement Hibernate ORM 4.16.Final Release Byteman 2.1.0 has been released Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.0.Alpha1 Released Arquillian Spring Framework Extension 1.0.0.Beta1 Released ModeShape 3.0.0.Beta3 is available BoxGrinder 0.10.3 Released AeroGear 1.0.0.M5 released aerogear controller 1.0.0.Alpha is out! HornetQ 2.3.0 Alpha released Enterprise Tool News JBoss Developer Studio 5 released Spring Tool Suite (STS) and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.0.0 releases News Java developer hardest job to fill, says survey Rod Johnson leaves SpringSource Cumulogic launches Java PaaS - will it shake up the field? JSR 355 Final Release, and moves JCP to version 2.9 Typesafe Raises $14M Series B To Fuel Growth Other Understanding JSF 2 and Wicket: Performance Comparison JSF and Java EE Events No Fluff Just Stuff JavaZone - Oslo, Norway Sep 12th-13th Strange Loop - St Louis, MO September 24th-25th JavaOne - San Francisco, CA Sep 30th-Oct 4th Spring2GX - Washington, DC Oct 15th-18th Just wanted to mention that there is a JUG conference in The Netherlands on 10/31: ApacheCon Europe 2012 - Sinsheim, Germany Nov 5-8th Devoxx - Antwerp, Belgium Nov 12-16th The Rich Web Experience & The Continuous Delivery Experience - Ft Lauderdale, FL Nov 27th-30th JDays - Gothenburg, Sweden Dec 3-5th