Spring Dallas User Group

I ran across a link to the DZone Refcardz in a JavaLobby newsletter last week. The idea of reference cards (think laminated cards of formulas for chemisty, physics, etc. that you see in stores) for some of our more commonly used Java tools sounded like a good idea so I went and took a look. I signed up without giving away too much personal info and requested all of the cards (4 total right now). I then got e-mails (one per card) that gave me a download link for the pdf.

With that said, the Spring Configuration refcard by Craig Walls is very good. Craig mostly covered the XML configuration and namespaces but also includes a section on the annotations related to these. The really important part is that these are all now in a single place, not broken up in the book or the user docs. There are 8-pages and the overall card is professionally done with good coloring and highlighting of the information. In the future, I’ll be using this as a reference aid in the Introduction to Spring course that I teach at CCCCD Continuing Education department.

My only problem (a very minor and personal one) is that they didn’t put page numbers on them anywhere. Usage of a refcard is best when it is right at hand and I’m old-school enough that I like some things on paper and while the layout of the information is pretty much self-contained by page; page numbers are easy enough to add.

UPDATE: The commenter’s are correct in that there are pages numbers. The just didn’t print for me due to printer settings.

So go take a look for yourselves.

Finally, here is the link for the presentation and check out the rest of Richard’s web site.
Presentation

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.

For anyone who could not attend the meeting last night or did attend and did not get a change to write it down; Craig’s slides and code are here.

OK, I should have had this up last month but since Ryan also spoke tonight on Maven 2, I’ll group everything together now.

• In March, Ryan had an excellent introduction to Spring MVC presentation and here it is.
• He also has the source code available.
• This month (April), Ryan had a good presentation on using Maven 2 and there was a lot of interaction with the group.

Venkat did an awesome job with his Spring into Unit Testing presentation. If you would like to get your hands on his presentation you can get it here on his site.

Here are the slides from last night’s talk Ramnivas gave on AOP.

Download

Sorry that we had to condense Craig’s talk to an hour. Please put your questions below and Craig will try to answer them as his time permits.

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Presentation
Code Examples

Ryan did a great job last night, and as promised he was kind enough to provide us with his presentation slides and code examples.

Download it here.

Craig Walls was kind enough to provide a zip file containing the code that he created in his presentation last week. I’ve placed the zip file here for download.

I guess this post will be a good place to start any discussions related to the code. Feel free to post comments on questions here. And if you (that you means any readers) have an answer to a question please feel free to post an answer.