SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

Magnificent Mile Marriott
Downtown Chicago
540 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois   60611
1 (800) 228-9290
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Erwin Vervaet

Originator of Spring Web Flow Project

Erwin Vervaet
Erwin Vervaet is a software engineer with a keen interest in applying modern IT concepts and tools. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Erwin has been using Java since its inception and has extensive experience applying it in IT research, e-commerce projects, open source initiatives, industrial software systems and business support applications. He currently works as an independent consultant, running his own software and consultancy company: www.ervacon.com.

Erwin also enjoys teaching and speaking on Java and Spring related subjects. As the originator the Spring Web Flow project, he currently co-leads it's development together with Keith Donald. He also authored the first book entirely dedicated to Spring Web Flow: Working with Spring Web Flow.

Presentations

Spring Web Flow Hidden Gems

Spring Web Flow is a powerful UI flow engine with many unique features to take advantage of in your own applications. In this session, you will learn about some of the lesser known features of Spring Web Flow and when to use them. Even if you have been working with Web Flow for some time, you'll come out of this session having learned something new.

Some of the topics covered include: - How to use named action to implement the chain of responsibility pattern - How to leverage the power of FlowExecutionListeners - How evaluate actions and flow variables form a powerful combo giving you an elegant, object oriented programming paradigm for the web.

Temporal Issues in a Rich Domain Model

This session will explain the common and complex requirement of tracking changes to information managed by a rich domain model. You will be introduced to actual-temporal, record-temporal and bi-temporal change tracking and the issues involved. Furthermore, you will also learn about several different approaches and patterns related to this problem. Finally, Erwin will show you a practical implementation of bi-temporal data leveraging Hibernate.

Come to this session to learn temporal issues in rich domain models and how to tackle them in practice.


Books

by Erwin Vervaet

The Definitive Guide to Spring Web Flow (Expert's Voice in Web Development) Buy from Amazon
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  • Spring Web Flow is an exciting open source framework for developing Java web applications.

    The Definitive Guide to Spring Web Flow is written by the Spring Web Flow co-lead Erwin Vervaet. It is the first book dedicated to covering Spring’s new Web platform and framework for building Java Web applications with Spring, which also allows integration of Spring with other popular Java Web frameworks like Struts, JSF and more.

    As Spring Framework continues to grow in popularity to almost be considered the de-facto pragmatic broad enterprise Java framework, more and more developers will find Spring Web Flow and this book as part of that de-facto pragmatic and “out of the box” solution.