Spring Dallas User Group

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

TOPIC:  Practical Spring Persistence
6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: In recent years the previously quiet persistence landscape has been reenergized with a host of new, revolutionary storage technologies.  The rapid introduction of new concepts, interfaces, and tools have left most of us bewildered.  Since nearly every useful application requires some degree of persistence, we are forced to do our best to keep up, all of the time wondering if we are making the right technology choices.  Fortunately, we are not alone.  Spring 3 is here to help!

Continuing in the tradition of Practical Spring lectures by Ted Young, this will be a fast-paced, demo-driven presentation that will explore various persistence technologies and philosophies.  Unlike “pet clinic” style demonstrations, we will apply these technologies in a Spring environment to develop practical solutions to real-world problems and demonstrate best practices along the entire depth of the application stack.  We will cover both high-level concepts (comparing storage technologies, covering critical storage concepts, exploring popular persistence-layer design patterns) as well as specific technologies (ORMs, OXMs, JSON Mappers, JPA, JPQL, Querying, Spring Data) and much more.  I guarantee that even experienced Spring developers will benefit from the breadth of technology and solutions presented.

Biography: Ted Young is the chief technology officer for the Digital Towpath, a cooperative of over 160 municipal governments dedicated to developing shared e-government services.  He has over 15 years of software engineering and project management experience.  When not at work, supporting his independent consulting business, working on his MBA from UTD, or maintaining his websites, Ted explores a vast array of hobbies including the study of baroque violin and ehru, as well as quantum and astrophysics, linguistics (currently studying Mandarin Chinese), early music, ancient history, and is currently working with local musicians to create a not-for-profit baroque performance ensemble.   http://tedyoung.me

SPONSOR: We do not yet have a Sponsor for April.
MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises.
16633 Dallas Parkway
Suite 100
Addison, TX 75001MAP: http://www.improvingenterprises.com/contact/Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. http://www.springdallasug.org?page_id=72Spring Dallas User Group: http://www.springdallasug.org Regards,
Bruce Schesvold
Co-Organizer SDUG
Email: bschesvold@gmail.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-schesvold/1a/508/531

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

TOPIC:  ADF Compared To Spring
6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: Dana Singleterry will compare Oracles ADF (Application Developer Framework) to Spring Framework. Then on Thursday April 19 a more in depth and hands on experience will be provided.

Get Hands-on with Oracle Jdeveloper, Oracle Application Developer Framework and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. You are invited to attend Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Developer Day, a free, hands-on workshop that will give you insight into how to create Ajax-enabled rich Web user interfaces and Java EE-based SOA services with ease. We’ll introduce you to the development platform Oracle is using for its Fusion enterprise applications, and show you how to get up to speed with it. The workshop will get you started developing with the latest versions of Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF 11g, including the Ajax-enabled ADF Faces rich client components, Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BPM.

Thursday April 19, 2012
8:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m.

Location to be announced

This workshop is designed for developers, project managers, and architects. Whether you are currently using Java, traditional 4GL tools like Oracle Forms, PeopleTools, and Visual Basic, or just looking for a better development platform - this session is for you. Get explanation from Oracle experts, try your hands at actual development. Come see how Oracle can help you deliver cutting edge UIs and standard -based applications faster with the Oracle Fusion Development software stack.

At this event you will:

• Get to know the Oracle Fusion development architecture and strategy from Oracle’s experts.
• Learn the easy way to extend your existing development skill sets to incorporate new technologies and architectures that include Service-Oriented Architecture, Java EE, and Web 2.0
• Participate in hands-on labs and experience new technologies in a familiar and productive development environment with Oracle experts guidance.

Biography: Dana Singleterry is a Principal Product Manager in the Oracle Development Tools group, specializing in JDeveloper, ADF, ADF Faces, Maven Integration, Lifecycle Support and Web Services. He has been working at Oracle since 2004, initially in Java EE Consulting, as a Product Manager in the Application Server group and currently as a Product Manager in the Development Tools group. Dana has published in trade journals, is the author of many Oracle How-Tos and actively contributes to the development of JDeveloper and ADF. Dana is a frequent presenter at user groups and industry conferences both nationally and internationally, including various Oracle user groups and Oracle Open World / Oracle Develop.

Spring Dallas User Group Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

TOPIC:  Spring Integration Framework
6:30 to 7:00 Pizza
7:00 Main Meeting

Abstract: IOC & Dependency Injection have often been confused as the same thing.  In addition, while there have been several efforts for a IoC Framework, for various reasons they have fallen short or otherwise not caught on.  The latest effort under the Spring Umbrella picks up many of the missing pieces, and carries on where the Spring folks left off.  Spring Integration Framework, now in it’s second generation, besides providing a true IoC framework, also provides “Default Implementations” of many of the components described in the book “Enterprise Application Integration Patterns” by Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf.  The Documentation of Spring Integration Framework covers the supplied components, but does not mention the IoC application or capabilities.  This presentation will start with reviewing IoC, then a quick overview of Spring Integration Framework, specifically addressing several questions and issues that colleagues have had on every SIF project that the presenter has worked on to date.

Biography: Steve has been working with Java Client/Server technologies since 1999, and Core JEE technologies since 2000.  Since then, he has worked a variety of projects, run and/or supported the odd user group, given a few presentations here and there, as well as introduced a few people to Java or Java-based technologies.  Steve started his first Spring Integration project in January 2011, and has been working with it on and off since.