Spring Dallas User Group

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

TOPIC:  Spring Batch

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: What do your bank statement, vulnerability scanning and ETL processes all have in common?  They are all forms of batch processes.  Since its release, Spring Framework has transformed virtually every aspect of Java development including web applications, security, aspect-oriented programming, persistence, and messaging. Spring Batch, one of its newer additions, now brings the same familiar Spring idioms to batch processing. Spring Batch addresses the needs of any batch process, from the complex calculations performed in the biggest financial institutions to simple data migrations that occur with many software development projects.  Michael will talk about what batch is, how Spring approaches the concepts of batch and how Spring handles scaling batch processes to be able to handle any volume of data.

Biography: Michael Minella is a software engineer, teacher and author with over a decade of enterprise development experience using commercial and open source technologies. He is a Technology Director at Critical Mass and an instructor at DePaul University. He is the author of the book Pro Spring Batch as well as the popular Refcard JUnit and EasyMock, was the technical reviewer for Struts 2 Web Application Development by Dave Newton and maintains a popular blog on open source technologies.

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

TOPIC:  Spring Expression Language - Deep Dive.

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: The SpEL brings the familiarity of Unified EL, offering additional features such as custom method invocation and basic string templating to the Spring portfolio. SpEL provides the Spring community with EL support in Spring Configuration. SpEL itself is a self contained, extensible API which can be integrated with existing EL frameworks.  The Speaker will talk about SpEL API and Expression Language and provide a deep dive into advanced features such as Collection Project/Selection.

Biography: Saad Khawaja is a Java Developer with 13 years experience. He is a Sr Consultant at Fenway Group. He has worked in the Telecom, Mortgage, Airline and Government industries.  He is continually on a search to find better ways to craft software.

SPONSOR: Fenway Group fuses creative with technology to provide premium, holistic business solutions. Founded in 2002, we are based out of Dallas and services a wide variety of clients in the metroplex, as well as through supporting offices in Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio and Oklahoma. With an entrepreneurial legacy and a dedication to our people, we cultivate an environment of idea-sharing that constantly creates new opportunities. We would love to see if our team is the right fit for you! Emailjoinourteam@fenwaygrp.com or visit www.fenwaygroup.com for more information.

MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises.
16633 Dallas Parkway
Suite 100
Addison, TX 75001

MAP: http://www.improvingenterprises.com/contact/

Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. http://www.springdallasug.org?page_id=72

Spring Dallas User Group: http://www.springdallasug.org

Regards,
Bruce Schesvold
Co-Organizer SDUG
Email: bschesvold@gmail.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-schesvold/1a/508/531

As we have announced over the last few months there will not be a December meeting for Spring Dallas User Group.   This will give people time to finish out their shopping or just rest up for the weekend with the relatives.  We will meet in January where we will have a deep dive into Spring Expressions, then in February we have the author of Pro Spring Batch coming in to speak.

If you have any questions you can contact myself or Bruce Schesvold.

Regards,

Brian Hurley

Leader Spring Dallas User Group

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, November 16^th, 2011

TOPIC: Spring G2X Summary by Craig Walls, Erik Weibust, others

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: - Last month several from our group were fortunate to attend the Spring G2X event in Chicago.  They will share their stories and what they have learned from the Seminar with our group.  From the new Spring Social modules to the latest on Spring ROO to the new inventions in the Groovy/Gails area and all the latest and greatest involving Spring.  Bring your questions to the meeting as we will run this as a open panel.  They may be talked into a short presentation but it should be mostly discussion about Spring and Groovy/Grails.

BIO:

Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 17 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He’s a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he’s not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 5 birds and 3 dogs.

Erik Weibust is a Senior Architect with Credera.  Prior to joining Credera, Erik was a member of the Office of Architecture at Countrywide Financial.

Erik has more than 10 years of business and information technology experience.  His career started at Neiman Marcus where he worked on the inventory system and then moved to their online team where he helped with the initial launch of the NeimanMarcus.com web presence.  Erik left the retail business for the high-tech, web-based, hotel travel booking company Pegasus Solutions.  While at Pegasus, Erik gained experience developing and maintaining massively-scalable, clustered Java EE applications that powered the majority of hotel transactions on the internet.  In addition, Erik gained experience in the mortgage industry while working for Custom Credit Systems developing custom mortgage applications, and most recently while working at Countrywide Financial.

Erik has a passion for learning, promoting and teaching Java technologies.  Erik has been active with the Dallas/Fort Worth Java User group (JavaMUG) for over 7 years and currently serves as the elected President.  Erik also started and continues to lead a Java User group that focuses on the Spring Framework (Spring Dallas User Group), a leading, lightweight Java EE framework.

Jonathan Ball is a Architect with Credera. He has over 14 years of information technology experience and over 13 years of Java technology experience. He has performed software application development for global software companies. Prior to joining Credera, he was the Lead Engineer of a 5 person team that wrote commercial developer tools using Java. Jonathan received his BS in Engineering Math and Computer Science from the University of Louisville and MBA from Southern Methodist University. Jonathan’s latest blog post on Credera site.

SPONSOR: Improving Enterprises

MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises.
16633 Dallas Parkway
Suite 100
Addison, TX 75001

MAP: http://www.improvingenterprises.com/contact/

Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. http://www.springdallasug.org?page_id=72

Spring Dallas User Group: http://www.springdallasug.org

Regards,
Bruce Schesvold
Co-organizer SDUG
bschesvold@gmail.com

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

TOPIC:  Practical Spring MVC 3.0 by Ted Young

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: Spring 3.0 brought a completely new, annotation-driven approach to creating controllers.  This new methodology has revolutionized the controller layer, changing it from something developers work hard to avoid to an incredibly simple, intuitive task that restores value to the controller layer in a web application.

In this fast-paced, demo-driven presentation, I will take you on an exciting tour of Spring MVC.  Unlike “pet clinic” style demonstrations, we will make use of practical solutions to real-world problems and demonstrate best practices along the entire depth of the application stack.  If you have never used Spring MVC then allow me to show you what you have been missing.  Not only will I cover the basics; but I will show you the advantages over competing controller-less frameworks.  I guarantee that even experienced Spring MVC developers as well as non-web application developers will benefit from the breadth of technology and solutions presented.

We will cover writing controllers without XML, form processing and file uploads, hosting and consuming web services using REST, XML, and JSON, using the Spring tag libraries with JSPs and Freemarker, supporting multiple output formats including Excel, Word, and PDF, internationalizing web applications, transactions, automated validation, multipage conversations, and much more!

Biography: Ted Young is the chief technology officer for the Business Network of Emergency Resources, a not-for-profit that provides public/private partnership programs supporting city, county, and statewide disaster mitigation.  He has over 15 years of software engineering and project management experience.  When not at work, supporting his independent consulting business, working on his MBA from UTD, or maintaining his websites, Ted explores a vast array of hobbies including the study of baroque violin and ehru, as well as quantum and astrophysics, linguistics (currently studying Mandarin Chinese), early music, ancient history, and is currently working with local musicians to create a not-for-profit baroque performance ensemble.  http://tedyoung.me

SPONSOR: At MATRIX, we’ve been helping business and individuals reach their goals for nearly three decades. We deliver the right mix of technology and IT talent, depending on each unique engagement. MATRIX works independently and through partnerships with IBM, Microsoft and other vendors and consulting firms. Talk to some of the 150 companies that we have completed professional services projects for, or the more than 40,000 IT professionals we’ve found great careers for. Better yet read the stories on our website from actual MATRIX employees. They will confirm – we’re how you get there!

MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises.
16633 Dallas Parkway
Suite 100
Addison, TX 75001

MAP: http://www.improvingenterprises.com/contact/

Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. http://www.springdallasug.org?page_id=72

Spring Dallas User Group: http://www.springdallasug.org

Regards,
Brian Hurley
Secretary JavaMUG
Email: secretary@javamug.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/m7cs
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhurley1

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

TOPIC: Spring Component Model / Spring Integration by Josh Long

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

This is an event not to be missed this month.  We will have several give-a-ways including several books from Josh Long and everyone will win a JRebel software license for showing up.

Abstract: The Spring framework has served people well for years, but few have exploited the incredible power of the framework’s core IoC support and component model, including the Java-only configuration model, the annotation support, the native support for JSR’s 250 and 330, and the incredible AOP and meta-framework support that the other Spring frameworks - Spring Batch, MVC, Integration - etc., all exploit. This talk introduces viewers to the powerful technologies including in the core Spring framework that can be used to meet any challenge - from component-level use cases to low-level framework-building scenarios.  In the second part of the talk Josh Long will briefly introduces the Spring Integration framework, then dissects some of its main features and explains how it can be customized to create custom routers, transformers, splitters and aggregators for scenarios that are not already served. Part of the Spring framework’s power is its extensibility, and this talk will show how that flexibility can help you.

Bio: Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate for SpringSource, an editor on the Java queue for InfoQ.com, and the lead author on several books, including Apress’ “Pro Spring Integration,” and “Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition” Josh has spoken at many different industry conferences internationally including TheServerSide Java Symposium, SpringOne, Geecon, OSCON, JavaZone, Devoxx, Java2Days, SpringOne2GX, DreamForce, numerous Java User Groups worldwide, and many more. When he’s not hacking on code for SpringSource, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, big-data and grid processing, mobile computing and so-called “smart” systems. He blogs at SpringSource (http://blog.springsource.org) or http://www.joshlong.com. He’s on Twitter, too, as @starbuxman….

Sponsor: Sabre is the world leader in providing software solutions for the travel industry. Travel and Tourism injects almost $3 trillion into the global economy and creates more than 77 million jobs around the world. Sabre provides an unmatched level of expertise in a complex industry, with 9,500 employees in 60 countries. At Sabre, you’ll find each and every employee has a passion for the travel industry. Our goal as a company? Connect people with the world’s greatest travel possibilities. If you have the talent, attitude and desire to work for the best, you belong here, too. Visit www.Sabre-Holdings.com/careers for more information.

MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises.
16633 Dallas Parkway
Suite 100
Addison, TX 75001

MAP: http://www.improvingenterprises.com/contact/

Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. http://www.springdallasug.org?page_id=72

Spring Dallas User Group: http://www.springdallasug.org

Regards,
Brian Hurley
Secretary JavaMUG
Email: secretary@javamug.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/m7cs
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhurley1

I have announced this at the last Spring Dallas User group meeting that Josh Long is coming to town September 21st to talk to the Spring Dallas User Group.   I’m still waiting on the abstract before I can post what the talk is going to be about but I promise that this will be the biggest event this year for the Spring Dallas User Group.   I have received extra give a way items and we are bring in some extra snacks for everyone to enjoy.

Everyone that attends will also get a FREE JRebel license!

I’ll get the main announcement post out there just as soon as I can but mark your calendars about this HUGE event!

Regards,

Brian Hurley

Leader Spring Dallas User Group