Mark Pollack

Founder Spring.NET

Dr. Mark Pollack has worked extensively in the financial sector as an architect and developer on various front office trading systems that involved a mixture of Microsoft and Java technologies. Always interested in best practices and improving the software development process, Mark has been a core Spring (Java) developer since 2003 and founded its Microsoft counterpart, Spring.NET, in 2004 which he continues to lead.

Prior to joining SpringSource, he was a founding partner at CodeStreet, LLC, an independent software vendor in the financial services industry. This year Mark has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the technical community.

Presentations

Web Service Interop between Spring and .NET

In many environments today there are multiple technology stacks and the services built on the various technologies need to be able to connect to each other. The web service standards around SOAP were defined to make this interoperability possible. In this session we will look at the web service capabilities of the .NET and Spring frameworks and ways that Microsoft and SpringSource are working together to make interoperability between the platforms easier for developers.

• Overview of Spring Web Services capabilities • Overview of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services capabilities • Code walkthrough of a sample application demonstrating interoperability between the two platforms

Spring DI styles: Choosing the right tool for the job

In this talk we will provide a hands-on tour of the new dependency injection features in Spring 3.0. Focusing on container configuration, we will show by example the use of Java, Groovy, Annotations and just a wee-bit of XML to wire up your application. Just as important to knowing how to configure the container, we will also discuss why you would choose one method over another, how they can be mixed and matched, and how a global view of the application can be viewed inside STS.

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Spring and Java EE 6

The Spring Framework is well-known for tight integration with the J2EE 1.4 and Java EE 5 platforms. Now Java EE 6 is coming our way...

* Where are new integration opportunities emerging?
* Where is the Spring component model compatible with the direction that Java EE 6 is taking?

This talk will provide an analysis and overview on the integration points between the Java EE 6 APIs and Spring.

Real world Spring JMS

This intermediate level talk will provide a quick review of the foundational JMS support in Spring (JmsTemplate and message driven POJOs) and then discuss several best practices regarding using JMS with Spring. Some of the best practice topics covered are effective JMS resource management, strategies for transactional message processing in conjunction with database access, and broker configuration tips for ActiveMQ. The use of JMS throughout the Spring portfolio will also be demonstrated, showing BlazeDS and Spring.NET for integration with Adobe and Microsoft .NET platforms as well and the use of JMS in Spring Web Services and Spring Integration.