SPRINGONE 2GX 2012: THE SPRING, GROOVY, GRAILS, & CLOUD EVENT OF THE YEAR!


Ken Sipe

Architect, Web Security Expert

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.



Blog

JavaZone 2012

Posted 2012-09-02 17:52:05.0

If you are looking for one of the top Java conferences, you need to take a look at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway.   Having been there a number of times over the last several years and comparing it to other Java conferencesmore »

The Key Tenets - 7 Years after The Internet Services Disruption

Posted 2012-05-28 11:49:32.0

October 28 2005 Ray Ozzie, having recently joined Microsoft (msft) at the time, put together an interesting manifesto with the subject title of "The Internet Services Disruption", with the purpose of "get all of us roughly on the same page".  For cmore »

Getting the Spock out of a Gradle War

Posted 2012-04-05 13:55:28.0

I recent ran into a interesting situation, for which I thought it would be worth sharing. I have a new project with the following build needs: Java, Spring MVC and Spock Testing. The problem is simplmore »
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Presentations

Spock - Unit Test and Prosper

Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the "best practices" of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. So combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans..more »

Groovy Power Tools

Groovy has been around for some time and is generally recognized as a highly productive object-oriented language with a tight association with Java. Groovy seems to be going through a second wave of popularity with a more diverse repertoire of benefits, more »

Books

by Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio, and Josh Long

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  • With over 3 million users/developers, Spring Framework is the leading “out of the box” Java framework. Spring addresses and offers simple solutions for most aspects of your Java/Java EE application development, and guides you to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.

    The release of Spring Framework 3 has ushered in many improvements and new features. Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition continues upon the bestselling success of the previous edition but focuses on the latest Spring 3 features for building enterprise Java applications. This book provides elementary to advanced code recipes to account for the following, found in the new Spring 3:

    • Spring fundamentals: Spring IoC container, Spring AOP/ AspectJ, and more
    • Spring enterprise: Spring Java EE integration, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, jBPM with Spring, Spring Remoting, messaging, transactions, scaling using Terracotta and GridGrain, and more.
    • Spring web: Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow 2, Spring Roo, other dynamic scripting, integration with popular Grails Framework (and Groovy), REST/web services, and more.

    This book guides you step by step through topics using complete and real-world code examples. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

    What you’ll learn

    • How to use the IoC container and the Spring application context to best effect.
    • Spring’s AOP support, both classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load-time weaving.
    • Simplifying data access with Spring (JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and managing transactions both programmatically and declaratively.
    • Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, email, batch, scheduling, and scripting languages.
    • Integrating legacy systems with Spring, building highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta Web Apps, and even creating cloud systems.
    • Building modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server.
    • Delivering web applications with Spring Web Flow, Spring MVC, Spring Portals, Struts, JSF, DWR, the Grails framework, and more.
    • Developing web services using Spring WS and REST; contract-last with XFire, and contract–first through Spring Web Services.
    • Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
    • How to secure applications using Spring Security.

    Who this book is for

    This book is for Java developers who would like to rapidly gain hands-on experience with Java/Java EE development using the Spring framework. If you are already a developer using Spring in your projects, you can also use this book as a reference—you’ll find the code examples very useful.

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction to Spring
    2. Advanced Spring IoC Container
    3. Spring AOP and AspectJ Support
    4. Scripting in Spring
    5. Spring Security
    6. Integrating Spring with Other Web Frameworks
    7. Spring Web Flow
    8. Spring @MVC
    9. Spring RESTSpring and Flex
    10. Grails
    11. Spring Roo
    12. Spring Testing
    13. Spring Portlet MVC Framework
    14. Data Access
    15. Transaction Management in Spring
    16. EJB, Spring Remoting, and Web Services
    17. Spring in the Enterprise
    18. Messaging
    19. Spring Integration
    20. Spring Batch
    21. Spring on the Grid
    22. jBPM and Spring
    23. OSGi and Spring