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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Michael Alford

Architect of Orbitz Worldwide's Online Travel Platform

Michael Alford
Michael Alford is a Senior Architect for Orbitz Worldwide's online travel commerce platform, with a focus on internationalization, web architecture, concurrency, and resource-oriented architecture. He has been working with Java and e-commerce since 1997 and holds a B.S. in Computer Science (1995) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Presentations

Case Study: Orbitz Worldwide's Next Generation Online Travel Platform

In this session, Michael Alford and Mark Meeker will describe the major business goals that drove the development of Orbitz Worldwide's next generation online travel commerce platform, and how those goals were met with Spring and other technologies.

Last summer, Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) - the leading online travel commerce company - released a new generation of its global technology platform with the goals of internationalization, white-label capability, and faster, streamlined development. Michael and Mark will describe the key challenges of this technology project and how those challenges were addressed, including the good, bad, and ugly of the Spring Framework and Spring Web Flow.