Spring Dallas User Group

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There will be no September meeting for the Spring Dallas User Group. Enjoy the night off, or feel free to attend the SCJP Exam Prep class that is being led by Glen Grimes. Check the JavaMUG website for more info.

TITLE:
Introduction to ExtJS and Spring

ABSTRACT:
ExtJS is a JavaScript library used for building RIAs without the need for plug-ins. It is a complete MVC framework for the browser and includes a feature-rich widget library. This talk will introduce you to the ExtJS library, with an overview of the widgets and MVC components. It will also show how to wire up the ExtJS AJAX features to the Spring MVC stack so you’ll understand how to integrate ExtJS into your own applications.

BIO:
Tim Sporcic is a software development manager with a large financial services company in Plano, Texas. He has been working with Java since the JDK 1.1 days on everything from enterprise systems to an embedded Java operating system featured at JavaOne. Tim has been recently focusing on client-tier RIA development using JavaScript, CSS and XHTML.

Get Tim’s slides and examples here

WHEN:
August 20th

• 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

We will not be meeting this month; July 2008