Spring Dallas User Group

TITLE:
Spring Web MVC 2.5 and Beyond

ABSTRACT:
Spring MVC is a popular web framework, and the core platform for powering Spring-based web applications. Also building on the Spring MVC platform are a number of interesting extensions.

• Spring MVC 2.5 introduces significant new features that simplify the core MVC programming model, including support for annotated @Controllers.

• Spring Web Flow 2 adds significant new features for implementing conversational flows within a Spring MVC-based app.

• Spring Faces, a new module, provides groundbreaking support for JavaServerFaces in a familiar Spring MVC environment.

• And last but not last least, Spring Javascript, a new module, integrates leading UI toolkits such as Dojo and Ext into a Spring environment.

Come to this meeting to see the killer new features in Spring MVC 2.5, Spring Web Flow 2, Spring Faces, and Spring Javascript in action, all working together in an integrated reference application. This meeting will also provide a brief overview of what is in store for Spring MVC 3.0.
BIO:
Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring. He is best known in the Spring community for creating Spring Web Flow. At SpringSource, Keith is the lead of the Web Application Development Products Team. His team, based in Melbourne, Florida, sustains the development of Spring MVC and Web Flow and their associated integrations, and is also responsible for future innovations in the domain of web application development frameworks.

Full Bio

WHEN:
May 21st

• 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

TITLE:
Using JavaConfig

ABSTRACT:
For most Spring developers, the de facto configuration technology for Spring is XML. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We will explore how to use Spring’s JavaConfig to configure application using pure Java. At the end of the presentation, we will have a Spring application configured with zero XML, but instead in completely typesafe Java.

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 co-author of Spring in Action. When he is not home spending time with his wife and two daughters, he can occasionally be found honing his skills at the poker tables.

WHEN:
April 16th

• 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

TITLE:
A (re)introduction to Spring MVC

ABSTRACT:
Spring 2.5 introduced many new features, especially with regard to annotation-driven configuration. The number of annotations available in Spring has doubled and no area of Spring development has benefited from annotation-driven development more than Spring’s own MVC framework. At the same time, Spring has adopted many convention-over-configuration capabilities, especially in Spring MVC, that can dramatically reduce the amount of configuration required to build Spring-enabled web applications.

BIO:
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 13 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is the author of Spring in Action (now in its second edition) and XDoclet in Action, both published by Manning.

When he’s not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 6 birds, 3 dogs, and an ever-fluctuating number of tropical fish.

WHEN:
March 19th

• 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