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Rod Johnson shares some of the lessons he learned as an entrepreneur.
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Rod Johnson SpringOne 2GX Keynote
Rod Johnson talks about what lies ahead for Spring, the new challenges and environment today, 10 years after the first line of Spring code was written. VMware’s plan with Spring is to continue investing in portability, productivity and innovation, making Spring the Java programming model for the cloud, and offering Code2Cloud, an integrated desktop-cloud development environment.
Lessons Learned From Java EE’s Evolution
Rod Johnson talks about Java’s evolution, in particular J2EE, presenting the lessons to be learned from its failures, like committee-led standards and container-managed frameworks, preparing to avoid such mistakes in the future.
SpringOne/2GX 2009 Keynote
In this keynote, Rod Johnson discusses the history of Spring, the core Spring values, Spring 3.0 features, upgrading the Spring Portfolio to use Spring 3.0, Spring Integration, Groovy, Grails, Grails plugins, tc Server, Spring Insight, SpringSource Tool Suite, the VMWare acquisition, Cloud Foundry and the Enterprise Java Cloud.
Keynote: The Future of Java Innovation
In the opening keynote at SpringOne Europe 2009, Rod Johnson wondered if Java innovation is going to be stifled by latest Oracle acquisition and expressed his belief that Java will continue to evolve outside of Sun as it has done for the last few years. As proof he mentioned: Grails, Roo, a tool for improved developer productivity, a free STS, tc Server and dm Server.
Interviews by Rod Johnson
Rod Johnson on Entrepreneurialism
Spring creator Rod Johnson discusses the importance of vision, teamwork, perserverance and sacrifice as he relates what it took to successfully build SpringSource from a small open source consultancy to a middleware powerhouse aimed at simplifying Enterprise Java, that sold to VMWare for hundreds of millions.
Inside SpringSource with Rod Johnson
In this interview conducted at the SpringOne 2GX conference, Rod Johnson talks about the new advancements SpringSource is bringing to the enterprise Java space, including new cloud options. Johnson discusses open-source Java in general, including the flap over the direction of OpenJDK and Apache Harmony. And he delves into the new Code2Cloud effort from SpringSource and Tasktop, and much more.
Rod Johnson Discusses Spring 3.0
Rod Johnson, the founder of Spring and the general manager of the SpringSource division of VMware, talks to InfoQ about Spring 3.0, the influence of Google Guice on Spring, Spring.NET, and Spring's tc Server.
Rod Johnson About Spring Framework 3.0 & Others
In this interview made by Srini Penchikala, with the participation of Ryan Slobojan, Rod Johnson answered many questions about Spring Framework 3.0 and other applications developed under SpringSource’s umbrella - Tool Suite, Integration, Web Flow, Batch – talking about their current status and existing plans for the future.
