Spring Dallas User Group

Ryan’s going to present Spring MVC for us this month.

ABSTRACT:
Although Spring’s rise to ubiquity was driven by its IoC and AOP services, it offers so much more. One of the most powerful of these services is Spring’s MVC framework.

If you are familiar with other Java web frameworks such as Struts or WebWork, you will recognize that Spring MVC is a similar request-response web framework driven by a Front Controller, in this case the DispatcherServlet. But Spring also provides considerable functionality out of the box. One of the beauties of the Spring MVC is that, like the rest of Spring, all of its components are quite modular. This allows you to mix and match different implementations of the various MVC components as you see fit for you application.

In addition, Spring MVC provides rich capabilities for data binding. This allows you to transparently bind form parameters to your application objects without having to create any intermediate objects. Spring’s validation features allow you to capture both binding and application errors. And with Spring 2.0’s much improved JSP tag library, both creating forms and displaying validation errors is quite simple.

BIO:
Ryan Breidenbach has been developing software for over eight years with a current focus on enterprise Java applications and agile development. He is the author of Spring in Action and is currently working at Countrywide Financial Corporation. When he is not geeking out, he can be found playing with his two daughters and occasionally honing his skills at the poker tables.

WHEN:
March 21st (3rd Wednesday)

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

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends in the office who are developing UIs and web applications.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are at Nerdbooks in Richardson TX. Directions can be found on their website.
*** Nerdbooks is our location sponsor and is providing a meeting place. Show up early and take a look at their large selection of Java related books.

– Erik Weibust
– Andy Hoffman