Thomas Risberg

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

Thomas Risberg works as a software engineer on the SpringSource team at Pivotal. He is currently a member of the Spring Data team focusing on the Spring XD, 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

Tools, Tips and Tricks to improve your Spring Persistence layer

Most database development can be helped by using available tools, as long as you know what to look for and where to look. We will look at some useful tools and see how they can be configured to help you run within a Spring development environment. We'll also dicuss ways to monitor database activity whether you are using an ORM tool or rely on your hand crafted JDBC statements. This is ctitical in order to tune your Spring application's persistence layer. The talk is rounded out by looking at a few JDBC puzzler's and some tips on how to improve the performance of your database code.

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Graph Database Persistence using Neo4J with Spring and Roo

It's getting more and more common to use non-relational data stores for storing parts of or the entire domain model. In this talk we will show you how you can easily do this with Neo4J (a "NoSQL" graph database) using new features now available in Spring and in Roo. We will introduce the Neo4J database and some graph database concepts. After that we will look at new Spring features that makes it easier to work with the Neo4J graph model. The talk will also highlight support now available in Roo for persisting entity classes in Neo4J.

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Writing applications for Cloud Foundry using Spring and MongoDB

How do you get started writing an application for the cloud?

This talk will show you how to develop a real application using Spring MVC with Spring Data and MongoDB providing the persistence layer. We'll cover the Repsoitory approach as well as taking advantage of typesafe query building using QueryDSL.

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

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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.

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