Thomas Risberg

Thomas Risberg

co-author of "Spring Data, Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java"


Thomas Risberg works as a software engineer on the Spring Data and Spring XD teams at Pivotal. His current focus is on the Spring for Apache Hadoop and JDBC Extensions projects. Thomas started his career developing custom mainframe banking software and later worked with client server based direct marketing and market research database systems. In 2003 he joined the Spring Framework project, primarily contributing enhancements to the JDBC framework portion.




Presentations

Getting started with Spring Data and Apache Hadoop

Big data and Hadoop is widely considered to be the next generation data platform. Hadoop is notoriously difficult to work with and just diving in and starting coding can easily lead to frustration. A better way is to leverage your existing Java and Spring skills to take advantage of these new technologies. In this presentation we will introduce Spring Data for Apache Hadoop and see how it can make working with Hadoop easier. We will also cover several ways to install a small Hadoop cluster that can be used to test your new Hadoop applications.


Books

by Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jon Brisbin, and Michael Hunger

Spring Data Buy from Amazon
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  • You can choose several data access frameworks when building Java enterprise applications that work with relational databases. But what about big data? This hands-on introduction shows you how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build applications across a wide range of new data access technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop.

    Through several sample projects, you’ll learn how Spring Data provides a consistent programming model that retains NoSQL-specific features and capabilities, and helps you develop Hadoop applications across a wide range of use-cases such as data analysis, event stream processing, and workflow. You’ll also discover the features Spring Data adds to Spring’s existing JPA and JDBC support for writing RDBMS-based data access layers.

    • Learn about Spring’s template helper classes to simplify the use of database-specific functionality
    • Explore Spring Data’s repository abstraction and advanced query functionality
    • Use Spring Data with Redis (key/value store), HBase (column-family), MongoDB (document database), and Neo4j (graph database)
    • Discover the GemFire distributed data grid solution
    • Export Spring Data JPA-managed entities to the Web as RESTful web services
    • Simplify the development of HBase applications, using a lightweight object-mapping framework
    • Build example big-data pipelines with Spring Batch and Spring Integration

by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg, and Colin Sampaleanu

Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework Buy from Amazon
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  • The Spring Framework is a major open source application development framework that makes Java/J2EE(TM) development easier and more productive. This book shows you not only what Spring can do but why, explaining its functionality and motivation to help you use all parts of the framework to develop successful applications.

    You will be guided through all the Spring features and see how they form a coherent whole. In turn, this will help you understand the rationale for Spring's approach, when to use Spring, and how to follow best practices. All this is illustrated with a complete sample application. When you finish the book, you will be well equipped to use Spring effectively in everything from simple Web applications to complex enterprise applications.

    What you will learn from this book
    * The core Inversion of Control container and the concept of Dependency Injection
    * Spring's Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) framework and why AOP is important in J2EE development
    * How to use Spring's programmatic and declarative transaction management services effectively
    * Ways to access data using Spring's JDBC functionality, iBATIS SQL Maps, Hibernate, and other O/R mapping frameworks
    * Spring services for accessing and implementing EJBs
    * Spring's remoting framework

    Who this book is for

    This book is for Java/J2EE architects and developers who want to gain a deeper knowledge of the Spring Framework and use it effectively.

    Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.