Episode 25 - Feb 2015

Kito and Daniel cover new releases from HighFaces, GISFaces, Spring, Java SE/ME, WebSphere, Arquillian, Apache, and more. They also discuss Microsoft’s new Spartan browser and Pivotal’s decision to stop sponsoring Groovy and Grails.

UI Tier

HighFaces 1.0

GISFaces 1.4

Esprima 2.0 Released

Project Avatar Update

Microsoft’s new Spartan Browser

Persistence Tier

Spring XD 1.1 GA and 1.0.4 released

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1 Released

Spring Integration Kafka Extension 1.0.GA is available

Infinispan 7.1.0 Final Released

Services (Middleware & Microservices) Tier

OmniSecurity

IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile Beta with Tools - February

Misc

Arquillian Core 1.1.7.Final Released

Apache Tika 1.7 Released

HttpComponents Client 4.4 GA Released

Apache Allura 1.2.0 released

Git 2.3 has been released

Java SE 8 update 31, SE 7 and SE Embedded

Java ME Embedded 8.1 Released

Discussion

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Pivotal-ending-the-sponsorship-of-Groovy-and-Grails

http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-layoffs-are-coming-but-nowhere-close-to-100000-2015-1  

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