March Spring Dallas User Group Meeting - Third time’s a charm: What’s new in Spring 3.0 by Craig Walls

March 2, 2010 at 5:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

After taking a few months off the Spring User’s Group is back.

TOPIC:  Third time’s a charm: What’s new in Spring 3.0 by Craig Walls
Abstract: In this session, I’ll lead a guided tour through the latest that Spring has to offer. Whether you’re a Spring veteran or a Spring newbie, there will be something new for nearly everyone.

It’s been just over 5 years since Spring 1.0 was released. In that time it has gone from a modest open-source project to being a de facto standard Java application framework. Now, as Spring enters its 6th year, it continues its attack on Java complexity with Spring 3.0, packed with many new features such as:

  • First-class REST support
  • A new expression language
  • More options for annotation-driven bean wiring
  • And much more

In this session, I’ll lead a guided tour through the latest that Spring has to offer. Whether you’re a Spring veteran or a Spring newbie, there will be something new for nearly everyone.

Bio: Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 15 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises in Dallas, TX and is the author of Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf) and Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning). 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, 6 birds and 2 dogs.

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MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises.

15950 Dallas Parkway
Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75248


Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. http://www.springdallasug.org?page_id=72
The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Brian Hurley

Jonathan Curran

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February 2010: Spring Dallas User Group Meeting Canceled

February 15, 2010 at 10:42 am · Filed under Uncategorized

The Spring Dallas User Group is being reorganized with new leadership so we will need to cancel this month’s meeting. We are still working out the details but should have more information soon. However, there are two other great talks next week. Craig Walls is presenting at the SOA Users Group meeting on Feb 24th at the IBM Center (http://www.soaug.net/) and Martin Fowler is presenting Feb 23rd at the DFW Scrum User Group (http://dfwscrum.wordpress.com/).

We will have a meeting March 17th when Craig Walls is presenting to our Spring Users Group. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future presentations at the Spring Dallas User Group or would like to present something yourself.

Regards,

Brian Hurley

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January 2010 - No Meeting

January 19, 2010 at 2:27 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Due to extenuating circumstances we have elected to cancel the January Spring User Group meeting.   We are going to use this extra time to make sure we have a good presentation for you in February.

Up coming Spring User Group Meetings:

February 17th:  Erik Weibust and Brian Hurley - Spring 3.0.
March 17th: Craig Walls - TBD
April 21st: James Ward - Flex/Spring Integration

Regards,
Brian Hurley
Erik Weibust

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December 2009 - No Meeting

December 16, 2009 at 11:16 am · Filed under Uncategorized

The Spring Dallas Users Group will not be meeting this month.  Enjoy the break.

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

We’ll post the 2010 plans soon.

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November 2009 - Spring Roo Quickstart

November 15, 2009 at 9:13 pm · Filed under Meetings

Title:
Spring Roo Quickstart

Abstract:
Spring Roo is the latest, and in my opinion most interesting, product to come from SpringSource.  Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool.  Think AppFuse meets Grails and mix in some Maven and built-in testing tools.

This talk will be an introduction to Spring Roo.  You’ll leave knowing what Roo is, how to use it, and where to go to learn more.

Bio:
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.

WHEN:
November 18, 2009
* Social - 6:30 PM
* Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust

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October 2009 - Effectively using IDE plugins for Java EE Applications Using Spring

September 23, 2009 at 8:24 pm · Filed under Meetings

Title:
Effectively using IDE plugins for Java EE Applications Using Spring

Abstract:
Developing Java EE applications with Spring or EJB requires lot of boiler plate code. IDEs and other tools e.g. Spring IDE helps alleviate some of the pain. Fast Code Eclipse Plugin can help further. Also other plugins e.g. Implementor, Anyedit, Moreunit etc are also helpful. Capabilities of all these tools will be presented as well some feature of Eclipse.

Bio:
Gautam Dev has almost fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. Gautam is well versed in EJB, spring, JMS, and Hibernate etc. Gautam has worked in companies like Sabre, EDS, Johnson & Johsnson etc. Gautam is the founder of Fast Code Eclipse plugin project. Interestingly, Gautam is not a computer science guy. Gautam did his masters and Ph.D in physics.

WHEN:
October 21, 2009
* Social - 6:30 PM
* Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust

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September Meeting Canceled

September 15, 2009 at 1:32 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

There will be no Spring Dallas User Group meeting in September.

Please plan on attending the October meeting.  Check back next week for more details on the October meeting.

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August 2009 - BlazeDS, Spring and Flex Development

August 14, 2009 at 10:58 am · Filed under Meetings

Title:
BlazeDS, Spring and Flex Development

Abstract:
The Spring Framework is a widely adopted framework for implementing J2EE solutions for business. Flex is a Adobe Flash API that is quickly gaining acceptance in developing powerful business RIAs. BlazeDS is Adobe’s Open Source solution for server side integration with the Flex API. This talk will discuss integrating these technologies to work together. It includes information on the new Adobe BlazeDS and Spring Framework collaboration project, advantages and drawbacks of the technologies. A hands-on demonstration of configuring Flex, BlazeDS and Spring to work together will be presented during the talk.

Bio:
Bradford Taylor is an Architect of Dallas based business and technology consulting firm Credera. Bradford has been implementing Java solutions for 10 years and has implemented and developed Flex, Spring and J2EE solutions for major telecommunications companies, retail companies and small businesses.

WHEN:
August 19, 2009
* Social - 6:30 PM
* Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust

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July 2009 - From xml bean declarations to annotations

July 14, 2009 at 7:21 am · Filed under Meetings

Title:
From xml bean declarations to annotations

Abstract:
This talk will focus on taking your application’s bean configuration from an all xml style to an annotation-based approach needing minimal xml (think a few lines).

The talk will be based on the book, Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Books for Professionals by Professionals).  This is the same book Spring Dallas Users Group was working through earlier this year.  So you can take a look at chapter 3 if you want to take a look at the material before the meeting.

We will be using a hands-on approach so bring your laptop pre-loaded with the SpringSource Tool Suite (a free, open-source product) or Eclipse with the Spring IDE plugin.

Bio:
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.

WHEN:
July 15, 2009

* Social - 6:30 PM
* Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust

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June 2009 - Using Web Service Frameworks in a Spring Application

June 12, 2009 at 8:44 am · Filed under Meetings

Title:
Using Web Service Frameworks in a Spring Application

Abstract:
With SOA’s rise to prominence in the enterprise scene, most new applications being developed today need to deal with web service-based integrations. Whether your application is a service provider or a consumer, a solid strategy for handling web services is an integral part of its architecture. Fortunately, there are a number of open source frameworks available that can free developers from much of the complexity of implementing SOAP-based web services. In this session, I will introduce several leading frameworks including Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Sun/Metro Web Services and Spring Web Services. I will compare and contrast each framework and examine their built-in support for Spring. Then we’ll build a real-world example, exposing SOAP web services from an existing Spring application.

  • JAX-WS overview
  • Contract-first v. code-first web services
  • Compare and contrast popular web service frameworks
  • How to generate a service and a client
  • Spring integration
  • Develop some real-world services

Bio:
John Jacobs is an Architect with Credera (www.credera.com). He has over 10 years of experience developing Java / JEE applications for companies in the financial services, telecommunications, HR and non-profit industries. John is passionate about using open source technology and techniques like test-driven development to solve business problems. His focus areas include open source Java application frameworks like the Spring Framework and JBoss Seam, Service Oriented Architecture and agile/lean methodologies.

Prior to joining Credera, John was a Senior Programmer / Analyst with USAA where he worked on high-volume banking applications on usaa.com. John is an avid snow skier; he also enjoys golfing and spending time with his wife and two kids.

Follow John on twitter at twitter.com/john99jacobs.

WHEN:
June 17, 2009

  • Social - 6:30 PM
  • Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust

UPDATE:

John was kind enough to update his slides and provide for download.  Click the following link to download.
John Jacobs Web Services with Spring Slides

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