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If you're one of the many users of IntelliJ IDEA, you'll be pleased to know that the company has just announced a release of a new preview of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 The major changes for this preview are noted as: Support for microdata attributes in HTML5 JSLint for HTML with JavaScript and CSS Gradle integration improvements Starling Framework support for Flash developers Cosmetic enhancements for Darcula If you're interested in trying out this new preview, it can be downloaded form the project's site at: http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IDEA+12.1+EAP

The Maven plugin to manage .war file projects within Apache Tomcat has been released at version 2.1. Version 2.1 of the plugin allows support for Tomcat 7 and has over 20 bugs / issues resolved. The changelog for the release details these changes. Full documentation for the plugin can be founds on the project's site , along with information on how to use the plugin within your Maven projects.

Following on from the earlier security threat levelled against Apache Maven 3.0.4, Maven version 3.0.5 has been released. This new release fixes one issue, MNG-5430 , notably upgrading to Apache Maven Wagon version 2.4. All Maven users are recommended to upgrade to this release. Maven can be downloaded from the project's site at: http://maven.apache.org/download.html

A security issue against Apache Maven 3.04 has been identified when running in conjunction with Apache Maven Wagon releases 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 Apache Maven 3.0.4 (with Apache Maven Wagon 2.1) has introduced a non-secure SSL mode by default. This mode disables all SSL certificate checking, including: host name verification , date validity,  and certificate chain. Not validating the certificate introduces the possibility of a man-in-the-middle attack. All users are recommended to upgrade to Apache Maven 3.0.5 and Apache Maven Wagon 2.4.

So you thought you couldn't use JBoss AS 7 from within NetBeans 7? The latest development builds of NetBeans provide support for JBoss AS 7, so now you can develop against and deploy to JBoss AS 7 using NetBeans without having to add any additional plugins. For full details, read the article " Using JBoss AS 7 with NetBeans ".

At the end of last week, Brian Leathem  announced  the availability of RichFaces 4.3.0.Final. RichFaces 4 is a JSF component library for developers creating applications using the JSF 2 framework. It provides many visual components (such as tree controls, menus, calendars and file uploads), many of which are AJAX enabled allowing developers to easily embed AJAX functionality into their applications. A complete demonstration of the RichFaces controls can be viewed at  http://showcase.richfaces.org RichFaces 4.3 contains new components, new features and bug fixes as described in the  release announcement . Full details of how to get started using RichFaces 4.3 (whether via Maven or not) can be found on the project's site .