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Rod Johnson Discusses Spring, OSGi, Tomcat and the Future of Enterprise Java

Community
Java
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Application Servers,
Enterprise Architecture,
Acquisitions

Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Spring 3.0. Johnson also alludes to the SpringSource Application Platform, which was announced a month after this interview was filmed.

News about Spring

First Public Release of Impala Provides Dynamic Modules for Spring

Community
Java
Topics
Announcements,
Build systems

Impala is an open source framework which aims to provide a dynamic module system for Spring-based web applications without requiring OSGi.

Exadel’s Flamingo Project for Rapid Flex and Java Development

Community
Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

Exadel’s Flamingo project is a tool for bootstrapping RIA applications built with Java backends. The tool offers support for both Seam and Spring in the middle tier. On the presentation tier, Flamingo supports both Flex and JavaFX. The tool has a similar approach to bootstrapping applications as the AppFuse project available for more traditional Java web tier frameworks.

Articles about Spring

Domain Driven Design and Development In Practice

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Domain Driven Design

In this article, Srini Penchikala discusses Domain Driven Design and Development from a practical stand-point. The article looks at architectural and design guidelines and best practices that can be used in a DDD project. It also talks about the impact of various design concerns like Persistence, Caching, Transaction Management, Security, Code Generation etc in domain model implementation effort.

Interview: Jim Marino and Meeraj Kunnumpurath on SCA and Fabric3

Community
SOA
Topics
SOA Platforms

BEA has released a Technology Preview of SCA support in WebLogic 10.3 based on the open source Fabric3 runtime. InfoQ spoke with Jim Marino, Director of Technology at BEA Systems and Meeraj Kunnumpurath, Lead Technologist at VocaLink. We talked about their views on SOA and SCA, what was VocaLink's approach to adopt SCA and some of the key benefits of the technology.

Interviews about Spring

Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio

Community
.NET,
Java
Topics
Open Source,
Enterprise Architecture

In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.

Mark Pollack on Spring and Spring.NET

Community
.NET
Topics
AOP,
Open Source

Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, talks about shares ideas between the Java and .NET communities and the history of Spring.NET. Topics include how to use dependency injection and AOP for more than just logging and where Spring.NET overlaps with WCF.

Presentations about Spring

The Design and Architecture of InfoQ

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
AOP,
Portal/CMS,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Community

InfoQ.com is a web app/portal implemented with the latest in portal technology and web development. This session shows the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com; from (lack of) initial requirements, design/implementation choices, deployment issues, and lessons learned along the way. The talk examines features of the site and their implementation in the web layer, domain model, and DB.

Configuring the Spring Container

Community
Java
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Open Source

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework. Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, configuring the Spring container, XML configuration, new XML configuration namespaces, Annotation-based configuration, automatic component annotation scanning, Spring JavaConfig, mixing configuration types, and Spring 2.5 new features.

Books about Spring

Java Transaction Design Strategies

Community
Java
Topics
Transactions Processing

Java Transaction Design Strategies shows how to design an effective transaction management strategy using the transaction models provided by Java-based frameworks such as EJB and Spring. Local, programmatic, declarative, and XA models are explained; the book concludes with a set of design patterns show how to effecitvely use these models.