Below are links to my presentations at SpringOne 2GX 2011. Each presentation contain links to resources and demo code. A walk-through the programming model and other changes in Spring MVC 3.1. Designed to be easy to follow without a speaker: Spring MVC 3.1 Update An up-to-date view on Spring config including singificant Java config updates [...]

I’ll be giving a talk at JAX Preview Night. Registrations are free. The actual JAX conference will take place on April 11-13 in London. .

I’ve looked through JSR-303 before but now starting to read in more detail. Don’t know what this is due to yet but I am a bit surprised to see the tangles in the package diagrams (courtesy of Structure 101). Validation API: Hibernate Validator: Will know more once I understand all the relationships.

JSF 2 introduced support for standard JSR-303 Bean Validation. One of the surprising bits was the default error messages. Suppose I added an annotation to one of my form beans as follows: public class Booking { @NotEmpty private String creditCardName; } and then I bind it to a form input field: <h:messages /> <h:inputText label="Credit [...]

Reading the above quote in a blog post about CommonJS/JSGI: The Emerging JavaScript Application Platform peeked my interest. What were they talking about? Digging around I found this really interesting talk by Ryan Dahl on event-loop concurrency. The approach resonates with me for two reasons. One, as a Java developer I’ve seen a lot of [...]