Spring Dallas User Group

TITLE:
REST Web Services with Spring MVC

ABSTRACT:
At least one developer has turned away from SOAP Web Services to REST Web Services because REST is easier to understand and has a shorter time to productivity. REST is lightweight enough that it can still be done by hand (without IDE wizards). REST models itself after the web and runs on the HTTP Protocol. Knowledge about scaling, caching, and securing web pages can be applied to REST Web Service URLs. This presentation will demonstrate one approach to provide REST Web Services using the following enabling technologies:

• Java 6
• Spring Framework 2.1
• from carbonfive
• XStream
• HibernateProxyConverter and HibernateMapper
• XML
• Hibernate 3
• HSQLDB 1.8.0
• Maven 2
• Tomcat 6

BIO:
Richard H. works as a Java Developer providing application solutions written in Java, Spring, JDBC, JSP and Swing. He thinks the following are intensely great technologies: Java, Groovy, Grails, Spring, Apache Commons, Eclipse, Maven, JavaDoc, Google, the Internet, Tomcat, REST Web Services and 3-D Computer Games. He enjoys making art images by programming with Processing.org and Groovy.

WHEN:
October 17th (3rd Wednesday)

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

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends in the office who are 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.
–Erik Weibust
–Andy Hoffman

During tonight’s meeting, my notes reminded me that I was supposed to post this right after the meeting. Sorry about that. Here is a link to Craig’s presentation.

TITLE:
Successfully Scaling Java Applications in Spring

ABSTRACT:
While clustering applications may increase the overall availability of business services, it certainly does not imply that they may easily scale out to provide greater system capacity or performance. Further, most clustering solutions leave the effort of addressing non-trivial issues like data, space, recovery and process partitioning (affinity) across a cluster to the developer, ultimately increasing application and deployment complexity and impeding the rate at which solutions may be delivered.

In this presentation, we will introduce and examine the Data Grid paradigm, and in particular how Spring applications may apply it to increase the availability, reliability, scalability and performance of systems, while at the same time reducing system complexity and improving delivery.

BIO:
Patrick Peralta is a Software Engineer for Oracle, specializing in Coherence. Patrick’s software development experience includes implementing Java/J2EE middle tier solutions, web applications, system integrations, and Swing desktop clients. Prior to joining Oracle, Patrick was a Senior Developer at Symantec, working on J2EE and integration systems. He enjoys mentoring others on technology, and he especially enjoys participating in Open Source. Patrick has a BS in computer science from Stetson University in Florida.

WHEN:
September 19th (3rd Wednesday)

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

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends in the office who are 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.

–Erik Weibust
–Andy Hoffman