March Meeting - Spring Web’s New Features

"Spring Web’s New Features" by Bob Williams

Abstract:

A hands on demonstration overview of Spring MVC2.5 and Spring JavaScript and Spring Web Flow 2.0 web frameworks.

Topics covered include:

• Convention over Configuration, Handing web requests, resolving views and Wiring Dependencies with Spring MVC 2.5
• Rich Web Apps with Spring JavaScript (HTML elements enchantments with Dojo made simple, the Resource Servlet and CSS Framework, Ajax with Partial Rendering)
• New Spring Web Flow Features (Ajax support, Spring Security Integration)

The spring Travel Reference Application shall be used as the running code example.

Speaker Bio:

Mr. Williams is a Enterprise Architect with 30 years experience that includes the Unix development team and Software Technology Centers at Bell Labs to the Architecture IPT Lead for the US Army’s DCGS-A project (a Intel SOA project).

He has been using Open Source frameworks (Spring, Hibernate) and ESBs / Web Service stacks (ServiceMix, Mule, CXF) to develop SOA Solutions since 2004. He has developed distributed/ service oriented solutions since 1996 (Bell Lab’s version of CORBA). He is also a certified UML/OO Rational Consultant.

He presently is the Chief Enterprise Architect at Maxworks Inc where his duties include designing Opensource SOA Roadmaps that manage the transition from unstructured enterprise software architectures to service oriented enterprise architectures.