Two members of eBay's CARad.com team walk through their experiences in gradually evolving a well-established, high-volume eBay application built on Macromedia ColdFusion 5, Visual Basic and SQL stored procedures to a Spring/Hibernate/Tapestry/Axis architecture, while maintaining very high uptime, increasing site stability and introducing new functionality and products.
Topics covered will include real-world experiences in implementing Spring DAO support, Spring context inheritance, evolving build and automated testing procedures, application uptime monitoring, and creating a re-usable, scalable domain layer.