Filip is a Senior Software Engineer for SpringSource and a key participant in the company's Apache Tomcat initiatives. Filip brings 15 years of extensive experience in architecture, design and development of distributed application frameworks and containers and is recognized for his top-quality system development skills and continuous participation of Open Source development projects.
Filip is an Apache Software Foundation member and a committer to the Apache Tomcat project where he is a leading authority on Tomcat clustering and a key contributor to the core of the platform.
Filip has made contributions to software initiatives for Walmart.com, Sony Music, France Telecom and has held a variety of senior software engineering positions with technology companies in both the United States and Sweden.
He received his education at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden where he majored in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
This session is aimed at users who are considering an upgrade to Tomcat 7 or who have already upgraded and want to make sure they are taking full advantage of the new features available in Tomcat 7. The session will briefly cover the new features provided by the updated specifications (Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 & EL 2.2) before spending the bulk of the session examining the new security, authentication, authorization, resource management, reverse proxy, embedding, parallel deployment, stability and management features as well as covering the important changes in the configuration settings. The session will end with a look ahead to future plans, including Tomcat 8.
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