Sessions

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Andres Almiray - Griffon Project Lead

Griffon Jumpstart

Have to renew or spice up a desktop application at work? In need of a rich desktop experience but don't now where to start? If any of these sound familiar to you or you're just curious to know more about Griffon then you've come to the right place.

Groovy AST Demystified

Compilers are powerful tools, they pretty much translate your thoughts into machine code. Extensible compilers are even more powerful. It turns out that the Groovy compiler can be extended by means of AST transformations.

Scott Andrews - Software Engineer

Architecture of a modern web app

No longer are servers the exclusive holder of smarts, and clients dumb terminals. Modern application leverage the strengths of both the client and server to accomplish their tasks. No longer can a client side developer ignore the server, nor a server side developer ignore the client.

Stefan Armbruster - Consultant focused on Grails & Neo4j

Grails goes Graph

Thanks to the GORM abstraction layer introduced in Grails 2.0, adding new persistence engines is much easier compared to Grails 1.x times. During the last months the Grails Neo4j plugin was established and is now in a phase of stabilization. Despite that it's already used in production.

Chris Beams - Spring Framework Committer

Introduction to WebSockets

The WebSockets technology promises to fill a niche in web applications by enabling browsers and servers to exchange messages with high frequency, low latency and low bandwith requirements in full duplex mode. The WebSocket protocol is an IETF standard, the WebSocket API is almost standardized by the W3C, and the JSR-356 will deliver a Java API in Java EE 7. There are already implementations in node.js and in a number of Servlet containers and Java frameworks. The time is as good as ever to start digging into it and there is so much to consider — from getting familiar with the protocol and the API, to sorting through the choices on the browser and on the server side, practical challenges with browser support and network issues, and so on. Furthermore, WebSockets offer a messaging-style architecture that's in sharp contrast to the RESTful architectures that connect the web today, so learning where to draw the line will be essential.

Burt Beckwith - Core Member of the Grails Development Team

Hacking the Grails Spring Security Plugin

Spring Security and the Grails Spring Security Core plugin have many extension points, but it's often not clear where to look when you want to change how things work for your application. In this talk we'll look at customizing behavior, from overriding configuration parameters to creating custom subclasses.

The Grails Cache Plugins

The new Grails cache plugins build on the Spring 3.1 Caching API to provide easy and transparent caching to Grails applications. Using annotations and GSP tags you can quickly configure service method, controller action, and page fragment caching to help your application scale by avoiding regenerating expensive responses and method calls.

Under the Hood: Using Native Hibernate in Grails

GORM is very powerful and makes it simple to work with databases but there are features and configuration options that aren't available or are inconvenient to work with.

Under the Hood: Using Spring in Grails

The Spring framework makes up the core of Grails, providing bean management, dependency injection and transaction support. Grails controllers and the web tier use and extend Spring MVC.

Emad Benjamin - Staff Solutions Architect, VMware

Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications

This session shares many of the production proven methods of running Java on vSphere. Covering how to size JVMs, and VMs for large scale deployments. The session will have a special section on GC tuning and show how a wide range of JVMs can be tuned using a GC recipe developed over the past 15 years of actual field experience in tuning JVMs.

Sebastian Blanc - Software Engineer

Developing Mobile HTML5 Apps with Grails

Developing applications for mobile devices using web technologies is now well within reach. When the capabilities of HTML5 are combined with CSS3 and JavaScript, web application developers have an opportunity to develop compelling mobile applications using familiar tools.

While the HTML5 specification is still evolving, there is a lot that can be used right now to build mobile web apps. Mobile web apps are now starting to provide many of the features that were once only available to native-language-based apps in Java, Objective-C, etc.

Marius Bogoevici - Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Java EE Services for Spring Applications

The continuous evolution of both the Spring Framework and the Java EE platform presents us with new challenges and opportunities for collaboration. Several recent EE services are very commonly used with Spring, e.g. Servlet 3.0, JPA 2.0 and Bean Validation. This session presents an up-to-date analysis: How do recent Spring versions (3.1/3.2) integrate with Java EE 6? How is this going to be affected by Java EE 7 in a year's time?

Nenad Bogojevic - Software Architect with Amadeus IT Group

Groovy as a weapon of massive PAASification

Amadeus is a leading actor in the Travel Industry. Our e-Commerce division, responsible for providing cross-channels (B2B, B2C, Travel or Airline agents) front-ends, has been developing community applications, self-hosted in a SaaS model, for now more than 10 years; they are multi-tenant, as to share the same infrastructure for all our customers.

We therefore built a highly sophisticated model of physical and logical farms, partitioning the traffic and optimizing resources. We operate 700+ JEE nodes, split in 30+ logical clusters, deployed on less than 10 physical server pools. Today, this infrastructure is delivering a billion dynamic pages per month, for more than 5 million bookings, with a 10 times factor growth expected in the coming years.

Even though thousands of parameters are available to tailor our products to any one particular needs, the recent evolution of the IT Industry towards PAAS ecosystems modified customer expectations: they are now looking for the capability to extend our applications, interact with their own IT, influence our business logic or even graphical interface.

To support this vision, we started developing an extensibility framework, based on scripting technologies. Though being language agnostic, we quickly decided to invest on the Groovy language and rely on JSR 223 to embed it into our applications.

However, transforming a multi-tenant & community SAAS ecosystem into a flexible PAAS environment implies to take up multiple challenges, especially around sandboxing – access & resource control – or productivity and production constraints, such as hot-reloading or instantaneous fallback mechanism.

Stephen Bohlen - Senior Software Engineer, VMware

An introduction to Spring.NET for Java developers

In this session you will learn the basics of getting started using Spring on .NET. All your friendly features will be there to great you: dependency injection, AOP, declarative transaction management, web framework, ORM, and messaging middleware integration, but with a .NET twist. Come and see how you can use your existing Spring Java skills to develop easily testable POCO based .NET applications

Sam Brannen - Senior Software Consultant, Swiftmind

Testing Web Applications with Spring 3.2

This year Sam Brannen and Rossen Stoyanchev are excited to present new developments in Spring 3.2 which include comprehensive support for testing web applications and context hierarchies with the Spring TestContext Framework as well as comprehensive support for out-of-container Spring MVC tests.

Jon Brisbin - SpringSource R&D

Spring Data REST: Easily export JPA entities directly to the web

The Spring Data REST project is a library for exposing Spring Data Repositories via the web. Version 1.0 supports JPA Repositories and upcoming versions will support other Spring Data Repository implementations like MongoDB and GemFire. This talk will walk you through the process of exposing JPA entities via the Spring Data Repository abstraction and then exporting them to HTTP using Spring Data REST.

Jeff Brown - Core Member of the Grails Development Team

Advanced Metaprogramming With Groovy

The dynamic nature of Groovy makes it a fantastic language for building dynamic applications for the Java Platform. The metaprogramming capabilities offered by the language provide everything that an application development team needs to build systems that are far more capable than their all Java counterparts. Taking advantage of Groovy's metaprogramming capabilities brings great new possibilities that would be very difficult or just plain impossible to write with Java alone. Building Domain Specific Languages in Groovy is easy to do once a team has a good understanding of the Metaobject-Protocol (MOP) and the method dispatch mechanisms used by the Groovy runtime environment.

Thorough Introduction To Grails 2

Grails represents technology that offers great flexibility and power without the complexity introduced by other Java web application frameworks. Custom tag libraries are a snap. GSP Templates provide a simple mechanism for reusing UI elements. Sitemesh is integrated to help provide a consistent presentation across the entire application. GORM is super powerful ORM. Grails provides simple mechanisms for leveraging the power of Ajax.

What Is New In Grails 2?

In this session, Grails core developer Jeff Brown will deliver an update on the latest and greats features of the Grails framework - a dynamic, web application framework based on the Groovy language and designed for Spring.

Edward Callahan -

Spring for Dummies: Enabling Business Developers

As users become more tech-savvy their ability and desire to build their own applications grows. Gartner predicts that by 2014, business developers will build at least 25% of new business applications. Commonly these applications must access and update corporate data sources.

Increasingly business developers want to deliver mobile solutions. Gone are the days of under the desk Access, Notes and Excel applications. IT needs to enable, manage, and control these applications to ensure standards for security, reliability, and maintainability.

This session will describe the kinds of people who should build applications and the types of applications they can build. We'll demonstrate using real world examples, integrating database and web services. We will build a Dojo and Spring application from scratch. From which, we will build a native iOS and Android app using PhoneGap.

Brian Cavalier - Front-End Engineer and Open Source Fanatic

IOC + Javascript

Thicker web clients and server-side JavaScript create complexity that must be managed through architectural patterns. JavaScript hasn't yet embraced lessons learned from other platforms, like Java+Spring. Existing JavaScript MVC frameworks are too rigid and lack sufficient architectural plumbing. Javascript needs flexible architectural infrastructure for building bigger, better apps.

Cedric Champeau - Core Groovy Committer

Groovy 2: type checking to the rescue!

Choosing a language is often a matter of taste. While a lot of people using Groovy come from a Java background, not every Java developer is willing to use Groovy because of its dynamic nature. Often, those people are disturbed by the lack of error reporting at compile time for code that would be obviously wrong in a static world. Unfortunately, by nature, Groovy cannot catch such errors because program semantics are ensured at runtime.

Well, this was before Groovy 2. In the latest version of the language, we introduced two annotations, @TypeChecked and @CompileStatic, which are precisely aimed at helping Java developers to seal the semantics of the language at compile time.

Roy Clarkson - Senior Software Engineer at VMware

Extending Spring MVC with Spring Mobile and JavaScript

The modern web no longer is limited to desktop browsers. Smart phones and tablets have become an integral part of our daily lives. Web sites that may look good on a 22" monitor usually do not format and display well on a much smaller screen. Additionally, network speeds can limit the performance of a web site on mobile devices. Because of these reasons many developers and organizations are considering how to make their web sites accessible to all the various devices and screen sizes for which people are using. In this session, we will explore the functionality provided within the Spring Mobile project, and how you can use it to extend your Spring MVC application onto mobile and tablet devices. We'll then continue the discussion by demonstrating how you can leverage some of the popular mobile JavaScript frameworks in combination with Spring Mobile to provide a first class experience for your users on mobile devices.

Spring Project Infrastructure

Over the last year a number of significant changes have been made to the infrastructure and processes used within the Spring family of projects. In this presentation we will review these process changes and provide valuable insights into the tools that make it all possible. We will begin with providing a brief history, then move on to discuss the new tools being used, such as GitHub, Gradle, and Artifactory. Beyond describing the tools, we'll also illustrate how these new tools help facilitate our processes, including community contributions, release management, defect tracking, and more. Ultimately, this presentation will paint a larger picture of the development process for open source projects at Spring, and the various outlets available for community involvement.

Andy Clement - Staff Engineer with SpringSource

Tooling for the JavaScript Era

More and more applications are being built with JavaScript, and not only for the client side but also utilising JavaScript server side. As the complexity of JavaScript applications increases there is a need for the tools to improve – textmate isn’t necessarily the answer! The user shouldn’t need to lower their expectations when stepping out of amazing Java tools and tackling JavaScript development. In this session we will present our vision for tooling for the JavaScript era and demo some early versions and prototypes of what we think the next generation JavaScript tools could look like.

What's new with tooling for Spring, Grails and the Cloud

In this talk we will give an overview of the recently open-sourced and newly organized tooling landscape for Spring, Groovy/Grails and Cloud Foundry (we’ll touch on Gradle too). We will introduce the new open-sourced tooling projects and how they fit together to form our new distributions: the Spring Tool Suite and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite. In addition to that we will demo the latest feature additions to the tools that enable you to be even more productive.

The first part of this talk will focus on Spring whilst the second part focuses on Groovy/Grails. Attend one (or both!) parts of the session.

Adrian Colyer - CTO of SpringSource

Emiliano Conde - Founder & President of jBilling Software

Just do it: Migrating to Grails

Are you in the process of evaluating adopting Grails? Are you 'too comfortable' with you current Jsf/struts application but you don't want to be left behind? In this session, you will learn how to migrate a pure Java application to Grails with and emphasis of getting the least code redone while aiming to maximize those areas where Grails delivers a big productivity boost.

Warp 10: High performance Grails

Using any framework wrong will result in poor results, including performance. Grails can deliver excellent performance to those that ask nicely, but there are many pitfalls and landmines scattered. In this session you will learn how to architect a new application to start on the right foot when it comes to performance, avoiding costly future refactoring. For existing applications, there will be well defined processes to find out the pieces that are slowing your Grails application.

Benjamin Corrie - Staff Engineer in Java Performance

Ten Great Reasons to Virtualize Your Java Apps

Customer interest in virtualizing Java workloads has been growing exponentially year on year. For the last few years, the focus has been largely around looking for best practice guidance to mitigate concerns around virtualizing Java workloads, particularly in the area of performance. Since joining VMware, SpringSource has been investing in providing first class support for the Java runtime on vSphere with products such as EM4J. Combined with the industry-leading capabilities of the vSphere platform and the growing product portfolio around the Java ecosystem, there are many great reasons to virtualize Java.

Ellery Crane - Senior Java Developer at Dealer.com

Building an Enterprise CRM with Grails and Spring Integration

This session will present a case study focusing on the development of a robust, horizontally scalable, enterprise CRM system at Dealer.com built primarily upon a Spring technology stack. Using a foundation of Groovy, Grails, and Spring Integration, our application has also incorporated elements of Spring AMQP, Spring Data, and a highly customized extension of Spring MVC's validation layer. In addition to these Spring staples, we've incorporated the cutting edge of other web application technology, such as MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ. Furthermore, our CRM has been developed as part of a company-wide software platform powered by Grails and Spring Security.

Luke Daley - Principal Engineer @ Gradleware

Gradle - the Innovation continues

The Gradle development team have not been taking it easy since the release of Gradle 1.0. New features and innovations are constantly being added, rough edges are being smoothed and the platform continues to expand. In this session we’ll explore the most notable additions to Gradle since the release of 1.0 and preview some of the new and exciting features just over the horizon with Gradle founder and Gradleware CEO Hans Dockter and Gradle core developer Luke Daley.

Geb - Very Groovy Browser Automation

Geb is a browser automation solution for Groovy. It brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of Page Object modelling and the expressiveness of the Groovy language. Geb enables more expressive, more concise, and (very importantly) more maintainable web tests.

Gradle Plugin Best Practices

One of Gradle's attractive features is that plugins are extremely simple to write and can do anything. Gradle plugins can add new functionality, enhance existing functionality or even remove undesired functionality. If you've ever wanted to write a Gradle plugin, or are interested in the deep details of plugins, then this session is for you.

In this session we'll explore some fundamental concepts that can be used as guidelines when developing plugins and new Gradle functionality, and the role of plugins and how they can be used.

Next Level Spock

So you already know and love Spock, the Enterprise ready testing framework, but want to know how to make the most of it and take your testing to the next level? Then this talk is for you. Even if you're new to Spock, but are interested in making your testing more effective this talk is for you.

Productive Grails Functional Testing

We all know we should be writing functional (i.e. web) tests for our Grails applications, but this can sometimes seem like too much work for not enough gain. In this talk we'll look at the current Grails plugins that are out there that can start to decrease the development and maintenance cost and make getting the coverage you need more achievable.

Standardizing your Enterprise Build Environment with Gradle

The larger and more diverse your technology organization, the greater the value you can realize in standardizing your build and delivery process. Internal build standards make it easier for people to switch between teams, allowing you to more readily adjust your staffing to meet changing business needs. In this session we’ll walk through examples of leveraging Gradle’s extensibility and plugin mechanisms to develop standards, enforce compliance and deliver tailored out of the box functionality. We will also discuss how to provision such customisations throughout your enterprise in a controllable way.

Damien Dallimore - Developer Evangelist, Splunk

Splunk as a Big Data Platform for Developers

Splunk is a Big Data platform that transforms the massive amount of heterogeneous and often totally unstructured machine data being generated across the enterprise into valuable insights and realtime operational intelligence.

Splunk exposes a rich REST API that covers every feature in the product, and we have several language SDKS to enable developers to leverage the power of the Splunk platform.

In this session I'll demonstrate how developers can use the Splunk Java SDK to :

1) easily and rapidly create big data applications without the need to write Map Reduce jobs

2) integrate Splunk search results with your existing applications

3) augment the operational visibility of the JVM apps you are building via the variety of data sources you can send to Splunk

4) use Splunk as a powerful tool throughout your development process to enhance the quality of the software you are pushing into production

Manuel David - Consulting Architect, VMware

Case Study: Provisioning a Multi-Site In-Memory Database

In this session we will analyze the architecture and optimization for creating a multi-site in-memory database that provides high availability for a prominent consumer service . The session will cover the use of Spring Gemfire to significantly simplify deployment in a Gemfire cluster connected together using a WAN gateway . The same approach can be used to solve other high availability, low latency problems.

John Davies - CTO and Co-Founder of Incept5

Spring Integration in the Wild

Few companies have been quite at the forefront of implementing Spring Integration (Batch & Data etc.) as Incept5, this year's VMWare EMEA cloud partner. John will cover a few of the more interesting implementations from an architectural point of view, looking at the choices, the reasoning, design and some of the issues behind the implementations. From projects with no SI skills ramping up to teams of several dozen programmers to experienced teams just looking for training, best practices and better data services integration.

Hans Dockter - Founder of Gradle and CEO of Gradleware

Gradle - the Innovation continues

Patterns for Efficient Build Promotion

We have seen quite a few larger projects for which a naive practice of early integration between the components lead to constant breakages. Thus they were not capable to successfully build a new version of the software stack for days or even weeks. Obviously the problem of that is dramatic as no regular manual testing and capacity testing is taking place. Not only is this a massive waste of testing resources, it also leads to very long and therefore expensive feedback cycles that severely affect your time-to-market of new features. It also a likely source of conflict between the CI team and software development, as with no other means at hand, there is a desire to create stability by not adding new features or doing important refactoring.

Brian Dussault - Staff Engineer, VMware

Automated Provisioning of Spring Apps to EC2 & VMware vCloud

This session will focus on deploying and managing your Spring Application in the cloud using VMware vFabric Application Director. A series of Spring applications, increasing in complexity, will be deployed. The deployments will cover generating property files and activating Spring profiles. Some other highlights of the presentation will be deploying to VMWare vCloud & EC2, updating an existing deployment, and some general tips & tricks.

The session will begin by using a simple contact application to be deployed as a standalone webapp with an in memory DB on single node, then it will continue with a more advanced example using PostgreSQL DB on a separate node, and finally demonstrate the use and configuration of an external DB & an Apache proxy. The session will conclude with the deployment and discussion of Nanotrader, a sample trading application, with complex requirements.

Emil Eifrem - CEO, Neo4J Technologies

Addressing the Big Data Challenge with a Graph

Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities to Telcos providing personalized customer services, to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are adopting graph databases as the best way to model and query connected data. If you can whiteboard, you can model your domain in a graph database.

In this session Emil Eifrem provides a close look at the graph model and offers best use cases for effective, cost-efficient data storage and accessibility.

Take Aways: Understand the model of a graph database and how it compares to document and relational databases Understand why graph databases are best suited for the storage, mapping and querying of connected data

Emil's presentation will be followed by a Hands-on Guide to Spring Data Neo4j. Spring Data Neo4j provides straightforward object persistence into the Neo4j graph database. Conceived by Rod Johnson and Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem, it is the founding project of the Spring Data effort. The library leverages a tight integration with the Spring Framework and the Spring Data infrastructure. Besides the easy to use object graph mapping it offers the powerful graph manipulation and query capabilities of Neo4j with a convenient API.

The talk introduces the different aspects of Spring Data Neo4j and shows applications in several example domains.

During the session we walk through the creation of a engaging sample application that starts with the setup and annotating the domain objects. We see the usage of Neo4jTemplate and the powerful repository abstraction. After deploying the application to a cloud PaaS we execute some interesting query use-cases on the collected data.

Andrew Eisenberg - Groovy-Eclipse project lead

Creating Groovy DSLs that Developers can Actually Use

In this presentation, Guillaume, Paul, and Andrew will show you how to leverage Groovy to build a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) used to control a rover on Mars! Various metaprogramming techniques and integration mechanisms will be demonstrated. But the language itself is only the first part of the story. Developers cannot be expected to properly use a DSL without first-class IDE support and documentation.

Todd Ellermann - VP of Engineering for VirtualTourist.com

Grails in the Enterprise: Can I? Should we?

Java/J2EE looking for something better but not sure if you can sell paying the price of a new language/framework? Not sure if Grails will work in YOUR environment?

Andrew Elmore - Head of Development at C24

Building for Performance with Spring Integration & Spring Batch

Spring Integration & Spring Batch greatly simplify the process of developing enterprise integration architectures and messaging systems. This session covers architectural patterns and real world examples showing how comprehensive the capabilities of Spring Integration & Batch are, while being lightweight enough to be suitable for very high performance environments.

Lee Faus - Founding Partner, Cloud Nine Partners

Extreme Makeover - Application Edition

In this episode we look at an old worn out application that has migrated from 3 different teams and 15 team lead changes. The poor application is now showing its years and doesn't perform like it did when it was first architected. Now through the help of a new platform, this application has an opportunity to shine again. Taking a look at past projects that have gone through similar transformations we will look at patterns and processes that can be leveraged to redesign traditional JEE applications into lightweight applications using Spring, CXF, SpringMVC, and SOA. Finally, we will walk through code examples to show how quickly applications can be developed using this new stack.

Mark Fisher - Spring Integration Lead

Spring Integration, Batch, and Data Lightning Talks

Join the hosts Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack for a series of 10 lightning talks by leading contributors to the Spring Integration, Batch, and Data projects. Learn all the inside tips and tricks about using these projects in exciting edge cases and get a preview of current experimental work being conducted by the R&D team.

Jonathan Fullam - Sr Systems Engineer, SpringSource Specialist

Java Batch JSR-352

Java Batch JSR-352 is an initiative chaired by Chris Vignola from IBM and includes members from RedHat, Oracle, VMware, Industry leaders, and independent consultants involved in the Enterprise Java Batch.

Talya Gendler - Senior Software Engineer, VMware

Spring Insight

Spring Insight is a technology that gives visibility into an application's runtime performance and behavior. Originally intended to be used by developers and designed to be integrated with the VMware vFabric tc Server, it has long developed beyond that point. Presently, it is already used for real-live applications monitoring and is integrated with most of the current application servers in the market – such as Tomcat, JBoss and WebLogic – via a command line Java installer. As part of the development process, a lot of experience has been gained by the Spring Insight development team regarding the process of integrating an application server with the instrumentation and monitoring framework.

Oliver Gierke - Engineer at SpringSource

Spring Data Repositories – A Deep Dive

The repository abstraction layer is one of the core pieces of the Spring Data projects. It provides a consistent, interface-based programming model to allow implementing data access layers easily. The talk will start with a brief introduction and dive into best practices and implementation patterns later one.

Whoops! Where did my architecture go?

When applications grow bigger, modularity becomes a key aspect regarding maintainability. Design decisions made in the early days are hardly discoverable in the codebase, inter-module dependencies grow a lot. The talk introduces means and approaches to connect logical architecture to the codebase. Beyond that we discuss patterns and best practices around general code organization, package structures to build a solid foundation for Java applications and in how far Spring can help creating loosely coupled components and dedicated points to extend applications.

Lyor Goldstein - Spring Insight team member

Spring Insight

Jeremy Grelle - Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource

Going Async - Practical Patterns for Push-Enabled Applications

Web and mobile clients are getting continually more sophisticated as client processing power continues to increase and much richer APIs are provided by the given platform. One of the most mind-bending shifts that is occurring is in transitioning from a world of purely request-response, to the world of client-server full duplex communication that is enabled by the latest smart client platforms.

Ben Hale - dm Server Team Core Developer

Designing a REST-ful API using Spring 3

In the course of creating VAS, we did a lot of work to design a useful REST API. REST is generally a very loose collection of principals that can be interpreted in many ways, so this talk would describe a more concrete idea of what a REST-ful API should look like.

John Hann - Sr. Software Engineer with VMWare

IOC + Javascript

Colin Harrington - Senior Consultant, Object Partners, Inc

Grails & Async

We will cover techniques for providing resources not contstrained to typical request/response boundaries.

Resources Plugin Deep Dive

Since Grails 2.0 the Resources Plugin has been included by default on new apps. The Resources Plugin provides a powerful streamlined asset pipeline that you can configure and extend. These technologies are essential for providing a performant web experience and is also under appreciated in the community.

Chris Harris - European Solution Architect at 10gen

The Spring Data MongoDB Project

This talk will introduce the Spring Data MongoDB project. Spring Data MongoDB provides a feature rich library for writing MongoDB applications in Java. It builds upon the Spring Framework and as such promotes a POJO programming model with a strong emphasis on productivity.

Derek Henninger - Director R&D - Tools

Spring for Dummies: Enabling Business Developers

Jennifer Hickey - Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource

Thinking Outside the Container: Running Standalone Apps on Cloud Foundry

Some applications simply cannot be contained. Perhaps you want to write a worker that periodically polls for updates or performs a maintenance task. Perhaps you would like to use a new lightweight web framework. You don’t necessarily want to build a WAR for these types of apps. With Cloud Foundry, you don’t have to! In this session, we will build and deploy several types of standalone applications, from distributed workers built with Spring Integration and Akka, to container-less web applications built with vert.x and spray, to bring-your-own-container apps that embed Jetty. If you’re a Java or Scala developer who likes to “think outside the container”, this talk is for you!

What's New in Cloud Foundry

We've been busy making improvements and adding features since Cloud Foundry's first birthday! Come to this session to get an in-depth view of the latest and greatest in Cloud Foundry. It's easier than ever before to build and deploy your distributed polyglot applications. You will see some exciting new options, including new Java and Node runtimes and support for background workers and container-less web apps. These features allow you to create distributed apps comprised of many smaller, focused apps each written in the framework that fits its purpose best. We will also explore the latest in tooling, including new features in the STS plugin and the brand new "next gen" VMC client. We will peek under the hood to see what's new in the Cloud Foundry architecture. You may even get a sneak preview of some upcoming features! From Cloud Foundry beginner to expert, this session has something for everyone.

Gunnar Hillert - MTS @ SpringSource/VMware; Spring Integration Team

Introduction to WebSockets

Introduction to Spring Integration and Spring Batch

In this session you will learn what Spring Integration and Spring Batch are all about, how they differ, their commonalities, and how you can use Spring Batch and Spring Integration together.

We will provide a short overview of the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) as described in the highly influential book of the same name. Based on these patterns, we will then see how Spring Integration enables the development of Message-driven applications. This allows you to not only modularize new or existing applications but also makes it easy to integrate with external systems.

This session will also introduce Spring Batch. Spring Batch addresses the needs of any batch process, be it complex calculations in large financial institutions or simple data migration tasks as they exist in many software development projects. We will cover what Spring Batch is, how Spring approaches the concepts of batch and how Spring handles scaling batch processes to be able to handle any volume of data.

You will also see how Spring Integration and Spring Batch maximize the reuse of the integration support provided by the core Spring Framework. In addition to providing a robust, proven foundation, this also flattens the learning curve considerably to all developers already familiar with Spring.

What's New in Spring Integration

Spring Integration 2.2 introduces many exciting new features including among other things new adapters supporting MongoDB, Redis and JPA. Furthermore, the transaction synchronization support was expanded, allowing for the synchronization of inherently non-transactional resources with existing transactions.

Spring Project Infrastructure

Juergen Hoeller - Spring Framework co-founder and project lead

Java EE Services for Spring Applications

Spring Framework 3.2 and 3.3 - Themes and Trends

In its 3.2 and 3.3 generations, the Spring Framework focuses on core features for asynchronous processing and message-oriented architectures, as well as enhancements to its caching support and its language support. The Spring Framework project also comes with a new Gradle-based build and a new GitHub-based contribution model.

Michael Hunger -

Addressing the Big Data Challenge with a Graph

In this session Emil Eifrem provides a close look at the graph model and offers best use cases for effective, cost-efficient data storage and accessibility.

The talk introduces the different aspects of Spring Data Neo4j and shows applications in several example domains.

Brian Jimerson - Chief Architect for Avantia

GETn2it -- Case study of building a startup's business using Grails and Spring

GETn2it is social marketing platform designed to sell the maximum number of live music event tickets, as well as high-margin on-night food, libation and merchandise in venue and the surrounding concert neighborhood.

There were a number of technical challenges that needed to be met by the platform, and using Grails and the Spring framework to build the platform met those challenges. Key factors like rapid prototyping, agile requirements to meet changing stakeholder needs, and aggregating and processing massive amounts of 3rd party data were all quickly met with Grails and Spring.

Modern Application Architectures with Grails and Spring

Today's modern applications have much different requirements than traditional enterprise applications from a decade ago. Today's applications require things like multiple client channels, integration with big, unstructured data, rapid time to market, and unparalleled scalability. And most traditional enterprise development frameworks aren't well suited to meet these needs.

Mark Johnson - Staff System Engineer @ VMware

Getting started with Spring Data and Distributed Database Grids

Alternative data persistence approaches are all the rage these days. Transitioning our skill sets and legacy applications to these new and promising technologies though can be problematic. Spring Data is an exciting solution to persistence proliferation. It brings the flexibility and familiarity of the Spring Framework and adds the concepts of Repositories which allow developers to write their programs to using familiar methods such as save, update, delete, and dynamic finders.

Paul King - co-author of "Groovy in Action"

Creating Groovy DSLs that Developers can Actually Use

Functional Groovy

Groovy doesn't claim to be a fully-fledged functional programming language but it does provide the Java or Groovy developer with a whole toolbox of features for doing functional style programs. This talk looks at the key Groovy features which support a functional style. Topics covered include using closures, currying and partial evaluation, closure composition, useful functional-centric AST macros, useful functional-centric runtime meta-programming tricks, trampolining, using Java functional libraries, immutable data structures, lazy and infinite lists, using Groovy 2's static typing and approaches for moving beyond Java's type system.

Solving tic-tac-toe: an addendum to the static vs dynamic typing/OO vs functional debates

This talk explores how to write a TicTacToe API meeting some interesting static typing constraints. Specifically, programs using the API may fail to compile depending on the state of play in the game, e.g. trying to call move() with an already completed game board. The real theme behind the talk is not so much in solving the TicTacToe problem but in pushing static typing to its limits (and some might argue beyond its useful limits - you will have to judge for yourself).

Writing your own Groovy 2.0 module

Learn about the modularization features in Groovy 2.0 including everything you need to know to write and use your own modules.

Kenneth Kousen - Author of "Making Java Groovy"

Design Patterns in Groovy

Languages that support both dynamic typing and closures radically simplify the standard design patterns. This presentation will demonstrate how many of the common patterns in Java simply vanish in Groovy, and how much simpler they are even when they remain.

Grokking GORM (and Hibernate)

The Grails Object Relational Mapping (GORM) API is an elegant domain specific language on top of Hibernate. To really understand how it works, you need to understand how Hibernate sees the world. This workshop will explore the behavior of GORM, from following object state transitions to managing the session to fetching lazy associations and more.

Helping Spring with Groovy

The Spring framework has always had a friendly relationship with dynamic languages. In this presentation, we'll look at all the ways you can add Groovy to Spring to make development easier, ranging from simplifying your configuration files to deploying refreshable beans to using Spock tests in the Spring test context and more.

Making Java Groovy

Groovy isn't designed to replace Java -- it just makes Java cleaner and easier to develop. This presentation will look at various tasks Java developers need to do and demonstrate ways Groovy can help.

Testing Grails

Grails comes with extensive testing support, ranging from unit to integration to functional tests. This session will demonstrate the range of options available both natively and through testing plugins.

Prerequisite: Some knowledge of Grails would be helpful but not assumed

Ramnivas Laddad - Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at SpringSource

What's New in Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry Architecture

If you have deployed applications on Cloud Foundry, you know how easy it is to push an app, bind services to it, and scale it. There are more magical things behind the scenes. Did you know, for example, that cloudfoundry.com is updated approximately twice a week? Each update included small changes such as a bug fix or a new feature, but often large changes such as updating the underlying operating system. Yet, we can do all this without any downtime for user apps. Come to this talk to understand what makes this possible. Even if you aren't going to ever implement a PaaS on your own (and why should you? we already give you a good one!), the architectural ideas apply to your distributed apps quite well.

Guillaume LaForge - Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource

Creating Groovy DSLs that Developers can Actually Use

What's new in Groovy 2.0?

Groovy is a very popular alternative language for the JVM that continues to bring more developer productivity and more performance after each release. In this session, after a quick overview of the key features of Groovy 1.8, we'll dive through the new developments in the recently released Groovy 2.0.

Costin Leau - Lead, Spring GemFire, Hadoop, Redis

How to build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop using OSS

Hadoop is not an island. To deliver a complete Big Data solution, a data pipeline needs to be developed that incorporates and orchestrates many diverse technologies. A Hadoop focused data pipeline not only needs to coordinate the running of multiple Hadoop jobs (MapReduce, Hive, Pig or Cascading), but also encompass real-time data acquisition and the analysis of reduced data sets extracted into relational/NoSQL databases or dedicated analytical engines.

Peter Ledbrook - Grails Advocate at SpringSource

Grails and the World of Tomorrow

It's an interesting time in the world of application development. We're in the middle of a perfect storm in which cloud deployments, alternative data stores, and rich, multi-device client UIs are emerging as the future standards. What does this mean for Grails developers and what does the framework offer in this very different world?

Groovy & Grails for Spring/Java developers

Java is a good all-purpose programming language, but does that mean it's the best tool for all jobs? In this talk, you'll see how Groovy can scratch itches you didn't even know you had. From scripts, to writing unit tests, to building projects, we'll take you through use cases that highlight the advantages of having a second language in your toolbox.

Martin Lippert - Lead, SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring IDE

Tooling for the JavaScript Era

What's new with tooling for Spring, Grails and the Cloud

The first part of this talk will focus on Spring whilst the second part focuses on Groovy/Grails. Attend one (or both!) parts of the session.

Kenneth Liu - Lead Developer for IEEE Spectrum

Modularizing your Grails application with private plugins

This talk will cover the most underrated feature of Grails -- the plugin system. Grails plugins are usually thought of as a way to add useful features to a new Grails application, but the plugin system also provides a powerful mechanism for reuse by breaking up a large application into reusable vertical slices.

I'll start with a brief overview of Grails plugin development and expand on this to show how to create private plugins to break apart a monolithic Grails application into reusable application components. I'll show how to implement default functionality in these plugins that you can override in different applications.

Josh Long - Developer Advocate

Batch Processing and Integration on Cloud Foundry

Spring Integration is a lightweight integration framework from the makers of Spring. Integration of data and services between applications is not easy – and often requires adaptation from one system to another. Spring Integration also promotes loosely coupled, event-driven applications. Spring Batch is a batch processing framework – providing a simple, idiomatic way to crunch large amounts of data across in a sustainable way. Spring Batch even allows you to distribute processing across multiple machines in a cluster. Naturally, both of these frameworks play very nicely on top of Cloud Foundry, which lets you scale up and out as demand requires.

Cloud Foundry Bootcamp

Hands on guide and introduction for Cloud Foundry for novices. This sessions covers the basics of accessing the Cloud Foundry platform as a service, how to use cloudfoundry.com, how to install and use Micro Cloud Foundry on your laptop, and covers the basics vmc commands for the platform. The session will provide hands on troubleshooting for developers that want to install and set-up Cloud Foundry in the session.

Wayne Lund - One of the original creators of Spring Batch, vFabric Senior Systems Engineer

Java Batch JSR-352

Jan Machacek - Co-author of "Pro Spring"

Akka eye for the Spring guy

Where did my controllers, services and repositories go?--Learn about Akka and Scala from a seasoned Spring developer's point of view. Discover how to design and implement Akka applications using typical Spring terminology.

Tom McCuch - Solution Engineer, Hortonworks

Addressing Messaging Challenges Using Spring and RabbitMQ Technologies

For Modern Applications Many businesses are faced with some new messaging challenges for modern applications, such as horizontal scalability of the messaging tier, heterogeneous messaging systems and access methods, and extreme transaction processing. This presentation/demo will cover how businesses can overcome these messaging challenges with the use of Spring and RabbitMQ technologies.

Paco Nathan - Data Scientist

Introduction to Cascading

Introduction to Cascading, an application framework for Java developers to deploy robust, enterprise-grade applications on Apache Hadoop. We'll start with the simplest Cascading program possible (file copy in a distributed file system) and progress in small steps to show a Java-based social recommender system based on Twitter feeds.

Mark Pollack - Founder Spring.NET

Spring Integration, Batch, and Data Lightning Talks

An Introduction to Spring Data

The Spring Data project is an umbrella project that provides a familiar and consistent Spring-based programming model for a wide range of data access technologies. Motivated by the rise of new NoSQL databases and Big Data solutions, there is support for Redis, MongoDB, HBase, Neo4j, Gemfire, Hadoop and Splunk. There is also a “refresh” of Spring’s traditional support for JDBC and JPA. In this session, we will provide a guided tour of the Spring Data feature set, showing how you can quickly increase your productivity when creating applications that use these new data access technologies. Use cases unique to each technology will be discussed and demonstrated as well as where Spring Data provides some level of portability between different databases.

Arjen Poutsma - Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services

Using Spring in Scala

In this session, we will discuss the Scala programming language, and what it has to offer to Spring developers. We will show how to use the framework you know and love in Scala, and also share some tricks to make this even easier.

Jags Ramnarayan - Chief Architect, GemFire Data Grid products

Effective design patterns with NewSQL

NewSQL is a term that describes the next generation of highly distributed, scalable, memory oriented SQL databases. In this session, we will explore some basic concepts in NewSQL (VMWare SQLFire), translate a traditional “Star” schema to a partitioned schema(scale out design), walk through various SQL usage patterns – simple queries, complex joins, aggregations, stored procedures and explain how they can be more effectively realized in SQLFire through replicated tables, partitioned tables, in-memory or disk resident tables, parallel procedure execution, distributed transactions, etc.

Nilanjan Raychaudhuri - Author of "Scala in Action"

From Spring + Java to Spring + Akka - A Journey of Discovery

Actor based concurrency model is a paradigm shift. What is paradigm shift?

A change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. A paradigm shift makes simple ideas hard to grok. Even though Actor model is a simple and revolutionary idea it becomes hard for programmers to see practical benefits and usage. Similarly, the Scala programming language brings a lot to the table in simplifying actor-based design, but comes with a new style of coding. One possible solution to this problem is to evaluate the new paradigm in terms of old paradigm. In this presentation we will take a working Spring based web application and gradually implement it using actors and Scala. We will be skeptical and suspicious of new ideas but at the same time we will be open minded. We will learn about actor based concurrency model using the knowledge of spring. At the same time, we'll learn best practices behind Actors, Scala and combining these with the Spring Framework.

Chris Richardson - Author of POJOs in Action

Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability

Today, there are several trends that are forcing application architectures to evolve. Users expect a rich, interactive and dynamic user experience on a wide variety of clients including mobile devices. Applications must be highly scalable, highly available and run on cloud environments. Organizations often want to frequently roll out updates, even multiple times a day. Consequently, it’s no longer adequate to develop simple, monolithic web applications that serve up HTML to desktop browsers.

Ken Rimple - Co-author Spring Roo in Action

Springing forward with Roo add-ons

Learn how to write Spring Roo commands and features using the OSGi-based add-on API. You'll learn how to extend the Roo shell to provide commands specific to your development shop, how to configure various architectures and frameworks using various Roo objects such as the FileManager and the ProjectManager, and how to write and update class and ITD definitions. A must if you need a tool to help you configure applications quickly or contribute to open-source recipes in Spring.

After this talk, you will leave with a better understanding about how to customize Roo to improve developer productivity for your organization.

Graeme Rocher - Grails Project Lead

GORM Internals

Want to understand the magic of GORM? Then this session is for you.

Grails Update

In this session, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will deliver an update on the latest and greatest features of the Grails framework, including all the new features introduced in the 2.x line.

Gary Russell - Staff Engineer, SpringSource; Spring Integration Team

Managing and Monitoring Spring Integration Applications

In this presentation we will discuss the options for managing and monitoring applications that use Spring Integration. It will provide a comprehensive overview of the extensive support for JMX provided by Spring Integration, both in terms of providing access to Spring Integration internals, as well as creating a JMX client to interact with local and remote MBeanServers.

In addition, we will show how to use the Spring Integration plugin for Spring Insight to drill down into Spring Integration flow processing to examine application performance.

Introduction to Spring Integration and Spring Batch

In this session you will learn what Spring Integration and Spring Batch are all about, how they differ, their commonalities, and how you can use Spring Batch and Spring Integration together.

What's New in Spring Integration

Brian Saville - Lead Engineer at Adaptive Computing

Building an Integration Platform with Grails and Gradle

Due to increasing demand for a common interface as well as extensibility for our core software at Adaptive Computing, we have developed a single point of integration using Grails and Gradle in the form of a RESTful web application called Moab Web Services (MWS). As a part of these efforts, we developed a plugin platform that allows us to dynamically modify the behavior of MWS, even after being deployed on a client system and without restarting the application. We tackled numerous obstacles and questions during the development of the platform including JVM classloading, plugin services, plugin conventions, inter-plugin communication, plugin development, configuration and metadata, testing using the Spock framework, exposing plugin web services, and management via a web interface and RESTful API.

Ken Sipe - Architect, Web Security Expert

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, including building, deploying and testing, in addition to rapid web development. The fastest growth of productivity tools are all powered by Groovy. Discover the Groovy Truth!

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... and you get Spock!

This is a significant advancement in the world of testing.

Prerequisite: junit

Mark Spritzler - Mark teaches many classes for SpringSource as a contract trainer

Using JPA effectively with Spring

In this talk we will show you how to use JPA effectively in your Spring Application making sure it is easy to maintain while being very fast.

Rossen Stoyanchev - Senior Staff Engineer, VMware

Introduction to WebSockets

What's New in Spring MVC 3.2

Following on Juergen's talk on the upcoming Spring 3.2 release, this presentation will focus on what's new specifically in the area of Spring MVC. The presentation will explain all noteworthy features and, as is usual with every new release, there will be a lot to discuss including Servlet-based async request support, content negotiation enhancements, REST error handling, @MVC test support, and much more.

Testing Web Applications with Spring 3.2

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Applying Groovy Closures for fun and productivity

You can program higher order functions in Groovy quite easily using closures. But the benefits of closures go far beyond that. Groovy has a variety of capabilities hidden in closures.

Design Patterns in Groovy

When I got into Java I had a "Wow, look how easy it is to implement these patterns." When I got into Groovy, I had the same reaction, but only better. The dynamic nature of Groovy makes it easier to implement some common patterns. What's better, there are some patterns that you can exploit in Groovy that are not so easy in Java. In this section, you will learn how to implement some traditional patters in Groovy, and also other patterns you are simply not used to in Java.

Improving your Groovy code quality

Groovy is concise and expressive. However, writing good quality code takes effort and discipline.

Integrating Groovy and JVM Languages

Java - Groovy integration just works, for most part. Calling into Java code from Groovy is pretty straight forward. Calling into Groovy from Java is easier than you may think (and that's the hard part!). There are a few rough edges you will run into when you try to call from Groovy into other languages.

Options for Concurrency in Groovy

Multi-core processors have increased the demand to get concurrency right. Thankfully, the options for programming concurrency on the JVM has evolved from the JDK synchronize and suffer model to Software Transactional Memory and actor based concurrency.

Josh Suereth - Senior Software Engineer, Typesafe

From Spring + Java to Spring + Akka - A Journey of Discovery

Actor based concurrency model is a paradigm shift. What is paradigm shift?

Dave Syer - Lead of Spring Batch, SpringSource Principal Consultant

When and why would I use OAuth2?

One of the questions we get asked the most by developers and architects is: when and why would I use OAuth2? The answer, as often with such questions, is “it depends”, but there are some features of OAuth2 that make it compelling in some situations, especially in systems composed of many lightweight web services, which becoming a very common architectural pattern.

Guillermo Tantachuco - Regional Sr. Systems Engineer , VMware

Effective design patterns with NewSQL

Gil Tene - CTO & Co-founder, Azul Systems

Understanding Java Garbage Collection and what you can do about it

Garbage Collection is an integral part of application behavior on Java platforms, yet it is often misunderstood. As such, it is important for Java developers to understand the actions you can take in selecting and tuning collector mechanisms, as well as in your application architecture choices. In this session, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will review and classify the various garbage collectors and collection techniques available in JVMs today. Following a quick overview of common garbage collection techniques including generational, parallel, stop-the-world, incremental, concurrent and mostly-concurrent algorithms, we will define terms and metrics common to all collectors. We will classify each major JVM collector's mechanisms and characteristics and discuss the tradeoffs involved in balancing requirements for responsiveness, throughput, space, and available memory across varying scale levels. We will conclude with some pitfalls, common misconceptions, and "myths" around garbage collection behavior, as well as examples of how some good choices can result in impressive application behavior.

Dave Tillman -

An introduction to Spring.NET for Java developers

Kelly Tisdell - Vice President, Broadleaf Commerce

An Introduction to Broadleaf Commerce: A Spring-enabled E-Commerce Framework

Broadleaf Commerce is a feature rich, highly customizable, open source eCommerce framework built on top of The Spring Framework. Spring provides a huge number of container services such as dependency injection, AOP, transaction management, MVC, JPA support, security, etc. Broadleaf leveraged Spring's features to provide a highly functional and extensible eCommerce framework. Where Spring is a technical development framework, Broadleaf is an eCommerce domain-specific development framework. Broadleaf Commerce has extended Spring with a unique application context merge process to allow implementors to extend, override, and control every component of the Broadleaf Framework. Kelly will provide an overview of the Broadleaf features, along with a deeper dive into some of the more advanced technical capabilities of Broadleaf Commerce and how they are made possible by Broadleaf's use and extension of The Spring Framework.

David Turanski - Lead - Spring Data GemFire

Getting started with Spring Data and Distributed Database Grids

Ryan Vanderwerf - Chief Architect @ Reachforce

Streaming Video In Grails

This talk will demonstrate and show how the grails video plugin works by allowing pseudo-streaming to the browser and using ffmpeg to transcode all videos into a common format on the server. Clients ask many times for functionality like this for their sites, and you will learn a easy and simple and free way to fulfill the need.

Web Clustering Integration with Terracotta, Quartz, & Grails 2

Terracotta has a free open source edition which provides excellent functionality for clustering in Grails and Java, and I will show use to set up Terracotta and cluster your application using its main features Ehcache, HTTP Session in Tomcat, and Quartz.

Vaughn Vernon - Principal Architect, Consultant - ShiftMethod

Implementing Domain-Driven Design with Spring and vFabric

Sponsored by EMC Consulting, this presentation highlights the use of Domain-Driven Design in a cloud-based, distributed architecture. There are several working examples of highly scalable DDD models featuring the NYSE Nanotrader system.

Abdul Wajid - CSSD Solution Architect - CAP, VMware

Migrating Java EE Applications to Spring and Tomcat

This session will focus on transforming legacy Java EE apps to Tomcat and tcServer. We will provide complete application transformation right from analysis of the app for migration, re-factoring code/configuration through to deployment & testing of the transformed application on private or public Paas platform.

Craig Walls - Author of Spring in Action

Client-Side UI Smackdown

In the modern web, user interfaces are expected to be rich, highly responsive, and available anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Round-trip server-side HTML rendering doesn't fit the bill any longer and numerous JavaScript frameworks have stepped forward to simplify development of client-side user-interfaces. With so many great options available, we now face a paradox of choice and it can be difficult to decide which UI framework best suits our needs.

Extending Spring MVC with Spring Mobile and JavaScript

Making Connections with Spring Social

The modern web is rich with APIs that can be consumed by other applications, enabling an integrated experience for the users who hold accounts on the websites that front those APIs. Many of these APIs are secured with OAuth, an authorization specification for securing REST APIs. Spring Social is an extension to the Spring Framework that enables Spring applications to establish connections with those APIs on behalf of their users with little or no need to muck about in the intricacies of OAuth.

Phil Webb - Senior Software Engineer at VMware

Practical Tips for Application Development on Cloud Foundry

Drawn from practical experience migrating production Java to Cloud Foundry, this session will present detailed tips along with a library of code that you can reuse with your own projects.

Wesley Williams - Senior Consulting Architect, EMC

Implementing Domain-Driven Design with Spring and vFabric

Rob Winch - Spring Security Lead, Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource, VMware

A Tour of Modern Templating Frameworks with Spring MVC

Tired of the limitations of writing your presentation layer in older technologies? Eager to discover what other alternatives there are for rendering your UI? In this presentation we will take a tour of some of the modern templating frameworks and demonstrate how to integrate them with a Spring MVC sample application.

Getting Started with Spring Security 3.1

Spring Security is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. Like all Spring projects, the real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements. In this presentation Rob will incrementally apply Spring Security to an existing application to demonstrate how it can meet your authentication and authorization needs. It will also answer many of the common "how to" questions that are found on the forums. This will ensure that you can not only secure your application quickly, but ensure you understand Spring Security well enough to extend it to meet your custom requirements.

David Winterfeldt - Staff Engineer, VMware

Automated Provisioning of Spring Apps to EC2 & VMware vCloud

Oleg Zhurakousky - Sr. Software Engineer, Spring Integration team - SpringSource/VMWare

Using Spring in Scala

What's New in Spring Integration

Addressing Messaging Challenges Using Spring and RabbitMQ Technologies

Andres Almiray

Griffon Project Lead
Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

Scott Andrews

Software Engineer
Scott is a member of the web products team at SpringSource, where he focuses on creating and sustaining rich web applications and frameworks. Scott is the creator of the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository, a production web application built on Spring 2.5, Spring MVC, and Spring JavaScript. He is also an expert in UI design, style, accessibility, and particularly skilled in interacting with customers to map business requirements to innovative software solutions. Over the course of his career, Scott has lead the successful development of mission-critical web applications in the areas of academia and technology infrastructure.

Stefan Armbruster

Consultant focused on Grails & Neo4j
Located in Munich/Germany, I'm doing freelancing in software engineering and consulting since +12 years. My technical focus is Grails and Neo4j and other emerging technologies. The second part of my professional life is Netjay, a small co-founded company doing larger scale projects. Last couple of years I gave several talks at various conferences like gr8conf.eu, grailsXchange, AgileWorld. In my spare time I serve as a volunteer firefighter, that's my there is the nice helmet on my avatar image.

Chris Beams

Spring Framework Committer
Chris Beams is a senior technical staff member at VMware and a core Spring Framework committer. His work in enterprise application development began in 1998 and has covered a wide range of technologies, languages and frameworks. Prior to becoming a full-time Spring committer, Chris trained hundreds of students on the topics of enterprise architecture and how best to use the Spring family of projects. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and is @cbeams at Twitter and GitHub.

Burt Beckwith

Core Member of the Grails Development Team
Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last five years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 40 Grails plugins. Burt is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups where he shares his passion for Grails and other Groovy-based technologies, in particular those that are related to persistence, security, and performance. He is the author of "Programming Grails" and blogs at http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/

Emad Benjamin

Staff Solutions Architect, VMware
Emad Benjamin has been in the IT industry for the past twenty years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Wollongong. Earlier in his career, he was a C++ software engineer, then in 1997, he switched to programming with Java, and has been focusing on Java ever since. For the past seven years, his focus has been Java on VMware vSphere, vFabric GemFire and SQLFire. Emad has been at VMware since 2005, and is the author of the Enterprise Java Applications Architecture on VMware book. Emad has previously presented at VMworld, SpringOne, and Open World on the subject of Java virtualization.

Sebastian Blanc

Software Engineer
Sébastien Blanc is JEE engineer with 8 years of experience. After spending 7 years in the Netherlands as Software Engineer, he decided to go back to his roots in the South of France. He is working for the company Sopra and he is working on a prestigious assignment for the client Amadeus including a lot of Groovy.

Besides his “heavy” JEE profile (middleware, banking and insurance products) Sébastien spends a lot of time in Groovy and Grails. He is the author of several Grails plugins such as Spring Mobile, Jquery Mobile Scaffolding or Geolocation. He believes that Mobile Web Apps are the future and tries to evangelize this through different conferences (Gr8Conf, Devoxx, RivieraDev, Grails Exchange).

Marius Bogoevici

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Marius Bogoevici is a Senior Software Engineer with Red Hat, leading the Spring integration efforts for JBoss AS and other JBoss projects. He is the lead for Snowdrop, a utility package that contains JBoss-specific extensions to the Spring Framework, and also a contributor to Weld, the JSR-299/CDI Reference Implementation and other Java EE-related developer initiatives at JBoss.
Marius Bogoevici has an extensive experience of more than 15 years developing and architecting software systems. Prior to joining Red Hat, he was a Spring consultant with SpringSource. He is a contributor to the Spring Integration enterprise integration framework and co-author of “Spring Integration in Action”.

Nenad Bogojevic

Software Architect with Amadeus IT Group
Nenad Bogojevic is a software architect in Sales and E-commerce Platform division of Amadeus IT Group. For the last 12 or so years, Nenad has been working on a high volume web based travel reservation platform using Java technologies. As a key actor he has been influencing the technical direction of the company's e-commerce platform. Currently, he provides technical guidance for mission critical travel agency application platform with paramount scalability and extensibility requirements. Nenad loves experimenting and whenever time permits, he mashes up a prototype or two to test or prove new technologies. At home, when he needs a dose of geekiness, he constructs robots with his daughters.

Stephen Bohlen

Senior Software Engineer, VMware
Currently a Senior Software Engineer for SpringSource where he is the Technical Lead and Community Evangelist for the Spring.NET Framework, Stephen brings his varied 18-year-plus experience in software and technology to the design and delivery of Software Engineering Solutions and Frameworks for other Software Engineers. In addition to his work on Spring.NET, Stephen is also an active contributor to several other .NET Open-Source Software projects including NHibernate, NDbUnit, and others as well having developed a number of Visual Studio productivity add-ins.

Active in the software development community, Stephen speaks publicly, blogs (semi-)regularly, and is the author of several popular screencast series focused on Agile and ALT.NET concepts and technologies including the widely-praised 15-part Summer of NHibernate video series introducing viewers to the popular open-source O/RM tool. Stephen is also a founding/organizing member of the NYC ALT.NET user group which meets monthly to discuss Agile-focused techniques and technologies in the world of Microsoft software development and beyond.

Sam Brannen

Senior Software Consultant, Swiftmind
Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Consultant with over 14 years' experience and co-founder of Swiftmind, a software consulting agency in Zürich, Switzerland. At Swiftmind Sam helps international clients achieve best practices in agile software development, architecture, design, implementation, and testing of enterprise Java applications using the Spring Framework and a plethora of open source technologies. In his consulting role, Sam most enjoys leading work shops, code reviews, coaching, and training clients.

Sam is a popular speaker at conferences on Java, Spring, and OSGi. He is also an active core committer for the Spring Framework, lead author of "Spring in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly, author of the Spring TestContext Framework, and was previously a core developer of SpringSource dm Server (a.k.a., Eclipse Virgo).

Over the years, Sam has helped clients build applications in various business sectors ranging from e-commerce to banking, retail, automotive, and social communities. When not in front of his computer, Sam enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Jon Brisbin

SpringSource R&D
Jon works with the Spring Data, Grails, RabbitMQ, and other teams to provide next-generation data and messaging capabilities for modern Ajax and mobile applications. He's been working with Spring Data to provide mapping capabilities for NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Riak and he's working with RabbitMQ and NoSQL to provide modern evented and message-driven data utilities. He authored the Grails support for Riak as well as contributes Erlang-based utilities for the Riak and RabbitMQ communities.

Prior to SpringSource, Jon developed private cloud architectures at the world's largets Pizza Hut franchisee, developed Lotus Domino, J2EE, PHP and even Perl CGI applications in BBEdit on an aged Mac, and got his start in web-based development 15 years ago, as an intelligence analyst for the US Air Force, when NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was cool.

Jeff Brown

Core Member of the Grails Development Team
Core member of the Grails development team, Jeff Brown, is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems for over 15 years. Jeff's areas of expertise include web development with Groovy & Grails, Java and agile development.

Edward Callahan

Ed is an open source software engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMware, where he regularly works with both Java and JavaScript, often at the same time. Ed joined VMware through the acquisition of WaveMaker Software, where he led numerous efforts including the founding of the developer community. Ed has been mixing new technologies with enterprise software and developer services for over 15 years.

Brian Cavalier

Front-End Engineer and Open Source Fanatic
Brian is a server-side Java guy turned front-end engineer, and open source fanatic. From collaborative aircraft maintenance systems for the US Navy, to Computer Assisted Surgery systems for Orthopedic surgery, to a global-scale content curation and personalization system, he loves building things that users love to use. He works at VMware on making the web more awesome, and is co-lead of the cujo.js architecture unframework (cujojs.com), a lover of Siberian huskies, family, and things with two wheels.

More about Brian: https://github.com/briancavalier http://blog.briancavalier.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/briancavalier http://lanyrd.com/profile/briancavalier/

Cedric Champeau

Core Groovy Committer
Cédric Champeau is a core Groovy committer. He joined SpringSource, a division of VMware, in order to help developing the language. Prior to that, he spent several years at Lingway, a software editor, where he used Groovy in multiple industrial contexts including DSLs for natural language processing, scripting or even workflows.

He his currently working on the implementation of static type checking and static compilation for Groovy 2.0.

Roy Clarkson

Senior Software Engineer at VMware
Roy Clarkson studied computer science at Georgia Tech before beginning his career as a software engineer. He has worked as a professional software developer for over fifteen years, with a variety of languages and technologies. He is currently working as an engineer with SpringSource, at VMware, where he is the lead on the Spring for Android project. He also participates on the Greenhouse project, and built it’s associated mobile clients. Roy has spent the last few years focusing on mobile application development, including iPhone, Android, and mobile web. Prior to that, he focused most of his time on web based application development.

Andy Clement

Staff Engineer with SpringSource
Andy Clement is a staff engineer in the SpringSource division of VMware, based in the languages and tools lab in Vancouver. He has more than ten years experience in Enterprise Application Development and now spends his time building tools for languages like AspectJ, Groovy and JavaScript and frameworks like Grails. He currently oversees the Groovy Grails Tool Suite deliverable, a variant of the Spring Tool Suite with a focus on Groovy and Grails.

Adrian Colyer

CTO of SpringSource
Adrian Colyer is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for SpringSource and the
vFabric Cloud Application Platform at VMware

SpringSource develops the Spring Framework and associated open source
projects such as Spring Integration and Spring Batch, Grails, Groovy, and
Eclipse AspectJ. Cloud Foundry is VMware's open platform-as-a-service with
full support for Spring, Grails, and a wide range of other application
frameworks. Adrian maintains a keen interest in the evolution of
enterprise application development as cloud, big data, and smart clients
all appear on the enterprise radar.

Adrian joined VMware in 2009 through VMware's acquisition of SpringSource
where he was the CTO. He led the AspectJ project at Eclipse.org and
oversaw the integration of aspect-oriented concepts into the Spring
Framework. He helped to grow the SpringSource portfolio from these two
projects into the rich set of projects and products that it is today.

In 2004 Adrian was recognised by MIT Technology Review as one of the top
100 young innovators in the world. Adrian has also served on a number of
industry groups including the Aspect-Oriented Software Association
Steering Committee, the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group, and the Eclipse
Architecture Council. Prior to joining SpringSource, Adrian gained over a
decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM.

Emiliano Conde

Founder & President of jBilling Software
Emiliano Conde is the Founder and President of jBilling Software, Ltd. He oversees the architecture and product direction of jBilling, the leader in open source enterprise billing systems. He is often working on-site with companies around the world helping implement large, enterprise class billing solutions on Java environments. Emiliano Code counts 17 years of experience in software development, his last position prior to the founding of jBilling being Software Architect for HSBC Global Systems (ranked 2nd largest bank in the world). He holds a certificate on Software Engineer from the University of British Columbia (Canada). He now lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Benjamin Corrie

Staff Engineer in Java Performance
Ben Corrie has been working on Java since 1998, where he began at IBM testing JDK 1.1.4. He progressed to working on the internals of IBM's Java Virtual Machine where he lead a project to develop industry-leading memory management technology for the JVM. He joined SpringSource as a consultant in 2008 and moved to California a year later to lead an effort to improve Java performance on vSphere. As the tech lead on the recently announced EM4J project, he is successfully helping to make vSphere the best place to run Java.

Ellery Crane

Senior Java Developer at Dealer.com
Ellery Crane is a seasoned software developer at Dealer.com, an industry leading automotive software solutions provider. He has been developing Spring applications professionally for six years, and Grails applications for the last three. At Dealer.com, Ellery pioneered the adoption of Grails as a framework for the company's internal applications and has spent the last two years as a lead designer and developer of an enterprise CRM system built primarily upon Groovy, Grails, Spring Integration, and MongoDB.
In his (scant) free time, Ellery is also avid researcher with numerous publications in the field of Evolutionary Computation. He also enjoys exploring the cutting edge in developer tools and technology, and has a passion for automated testing; he recently published an article on using Geb (a Groovy browser automation tool) for functional testing.
Born in Minnesota, Ellery now lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Luke Daley

Principal Engineer @ Gradleware
Luke Daley is a member of the Gradleware engineering team. At Gradleware Luke works on Gradle (A JVM based build automation tool) and helps teams reach new levels of project automation and quality.

Luke is the lead of the Geb project (a productivity focussed Groovy browser automation/web testing tool) project which he created in 2010. You'll also find Luke contributing to other Open Source projects such as Grails (a Groovy web development framework), Spock (a next generation testing framework for the JVM) and anything else that catches his attention. With a “results over rhetoric” ethos, Luke's focus is on tools that empower software professionals to deliver and innovate, not try to save them from themselves.

Originally from Australia, Luke now resides in London where he spreads his time among work, software crafstmanship, musicianship and cursing the local weather.

Damien Dallimore

Developer Evangelist, Splunk
Damien is the first Developer Evangelist at Splunk where he engages with the developer community to build big data applications on top of Splunk using Splunk's SDKs and Application framework. A fervent JVM fan, he has a particular interest in the new breed of alternate JVM languages and actually thinks that logging is cool. Prior to joining Splunk, Damien paid his mortgage wearing many different technical hats coding,hacking,engineering and architecting software and solutions around the globe in a variety of industries, primarily in the Enterprise Java space. He is a fanatical All Black's rugby supporter, loves scuba diving and golf and can hold his own on guitar in a blues jam.

Manuel David

Consulting Architect, VMware
Manny is a GemFire consultant for VMware's vFabric Cloud Application Platform. He brings with him over 18 years of software engineering experience in sectors such as finance, federal, pharma, and technology. His focus is on the server-side, but he also has experience in Java Swing rich client and Web development. He left the world of Smalltalk development when he plunged into the Java world in 1996, and hasn't looked back since. Manny started working with GemFire after joining Gemstone Systems as an Enterprise Architect in London in 2006, based on his prior experience in Coherence technology. He later joined VMware in early 2011, continuing to build on his expertise in designing GemFire-based solutions for applications that require in-memory persistence and distributed grid compute technology.

John Davies

CTO and Co-Founder of Incept5
John Davies is co-founder and CTO of Incept5. Incept5 have been intimately involved in implementing Visa's new capabilities and initiatives around the payments world. John's past includes global chief architect at JP Morgan and BNP Paribas, co-founder and CTO of C24 later sold to Iona and then Progress Software where he was technical director. John specialises in high performance, low latency enterprise architectures, Incept5 have products ranging form top selling iPhone/iPad apps to a high performance matching and reconciliation engine and consult to a number of large clients on IT strategy. John has co-authored several enterprise Java and architecture books and is a frequent speaker at banking and technology conferences.

Hans Dockter

Founder of Gradle and CEO of Gradleware
Hans Dockter is the founder and project lead of the Gradle build system and the CEO of Gradleware, a company that provides training, support and consulting for Gradle and all forms of enterprise software project automation in general.

Hans has 13 years of experience as a software developer, team leader, architect, trainer, and technical mentor. Hans is a thought leader in the field of project automation and has successfully been in charge of numerous large-scale enterprise builds. He is also an advocate of Domain Driven Design, having taught classes and delivered presentations on this topic together with Eric Evans. In the earlier days, Hans was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.

Brian Dussault

Staff Engineer, VMware
Brian Dussault is a Staff Engineer with the vFabric division of VMware and has 14+ years of experience in software engineering. Throughout his tenure, he has worked in both IT (High Tech Manufacturing, Financial Industries) and R&D positions. His experience spans multiple disciplines including web applications, integration, SOA, open source, and system design.

Emil Eifrem

CEO, Neo4J Technologies
Emil Eifrem is CEO of Neo Technology and co-founder of the Neo4j project. Before founding Neo, he was the CTO of Windh AB, where he headed the development of highly complex information architectures for Enterprise Content Management Systems. Committed to sustainable open source, he guides Neo along a balanced path between free availability and commercial reliability. Emil is a frequent conference speaker and author on NOSQL databases.

Andrew Eisenberg

Groovy-Eclipse project lead
Andrew Eisenberg is the lead of the Groovy-Eclipse project and also works on the Grails tooling portion of the SpringSource Tool Suite. He is also the prooject lead for the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) at Eclipse.org. Andrew creates IDE tools that ease the cognitive burden of creating complex programs. He will not rest and not be happy until programming is as fun and easy as playing with legos. Andrew has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia where he researched the intersection between programming languages and tools.

Todd Ellermann

VP of Engineering for VirtualTourist.com
Todd is a 15 year veteran of the Java development and has 4 years of professional Grails development experience. He is currently the V.P. of Engineering for VirtualTourist.com a TripAdvisor Media Group Company. In 2008, VirtualTourist.com was acquired by TripAdvisor/Expedia(EXPE), and Todd was brought in to lead a team of Java/Groovy/Grails engineers in the redevelopment effort. A graduate of the University of Arizona, with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, and an MBA from ASU with an emphasis on management of the creative software engineering process. When he is not actively writing code for his own startup ideas, you will find him entertaining his daughters or getting lost in a glass of wine, both of which usually lead to other crazy coding ideas like this one: "What would happen if I did a screencast of writing the same web application in eight different languages?" -- www.betterwebapp.com

Andrew Elmore

Head of Development at C24
Andrew Elmore is Head of Development at C24, a provider of financial services messaging software to many of the world's largest financial institutions. Prior to joining C24, Andrew built and managed the front & middle office systems at a Mastercard-owned credit card issuer & processor, led the development of numerous products at SmartStream Technologies and worked on a number of highly scalable systems including PitneyBowes' Portrait suite & British Telecom's call-routing software.
Andrew is a Chartered Engineer & Chartered IT Practitioner and holds a BEng in Computer Science & Electronics from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Lee Faus

Founding Partner, Cloud Nine Partners
My career began with a need to teach and mentor. I found these skills to be invaluable in the field of information technology. I started doing basic cabling and network infrastructure although I always had a propensity for coding and software architecture. My specialty in information technology is the integration of multiple technologies to assemble them into business applications with a keen focus on open source frameworks and products. I have consulted for some of the largest corporations in the world with my primary focus in the last 7 years around cloud computing.

Mark Fisher

Spring Integration Lead
Mark Fisher is an engineer within the SpringSource division of VMware and lead of the Spring Integration project. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework and the Spring BlazeDS Integration project. Mark has provided consulting services for clients across numerous industries, and he has trained hundreds of developers how to use the Spring Framework and related projects effectively. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups in America and Europe.

Adam Fitzgerald

Director of Developer Relations, SpringSource
Adam is the Director of Developer Relations at SpringSource and has extensive experience in enterprise Java community management. Prior to joining SpringSource, Adam ran BEA's dev2dev community and was a product evangelist, technology educator and public speaker for BEA's WebLogic products.

Jonathan Fullam

Sr Systems Engineer, SpringSource Specialist
Jonathan Fullam has over 12 years of experience with software development with a heavy focus on enterprise Java based applications and open source frameworks. Currently employed by SpringSource, a division of VMware, Jonathan advises enterprises on building scalable architectures using modern technologies and tools. With a passion for public speaking, he most recently presented Test Driven Developement at the 2011 Java Server Side Symposium. Jonathan received his education from The College of New Jersey where he obtained a B.S. in computer science.

Talya Gendler

Senior Software Engineer, VMware
Talya Gendler is a senior software engineer for the Spring Insight team. She joined Spring Insight in November 2011, and has been at VMware since May 2009. Prior to joining Insight she led the UI team of VMware vFabric AppInsight for two years. She has over 8 years of experience and holds a BSc, Computer Science from The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (cum laude).

Oliver Gierke

Engineer at SpringSource
Oliver Gierke is engineer at SpringSource, a division of VMware, project lead of the Spring Data JPA module and involved into other Spring Data modules (e.g. MongoDB) as well. He has been into developing enterprise applications and open source projects for over 6 years now. His working focus is centered around software architecture, Spring and persistence technologies. He is regularly speaking at German and international conferences as well as author of technology articles.

Lyor Goldstein

Spring Insight team member
A Java veteran with over 23 years of experience in software development. Obtained M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion – Haifa Institute of Technology, followed a 6+ years term with the IDF involved in high-tech projects. After retiring from the army, continued in the private sector being involved in various projects and diverse technologies and architectures - e.g., telephony, VoIP, unified messaging, etc.. Has been a member of the Spring Insight team since May 2010 when he joined VMware. Initial developer of the Spring Insight bootstrap solution for Tomcat 5/6/7, JBoss 5.0/5.1/6.0, and POC for WebLogic and WebSphere, as well as developer of considerable number of Insight collection plugins

Jeremy Grelle

Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource
Jeremy Grelle is an open source software engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMware, who specializes in bringing the cutting-edge techniques of web application development to the Java and Spring ecosystems. He is the creator of the Spring JavaScript, Spring Faces, and Spring BlazeDS Integration projects, and he represented SpringSource on the JSR-314 Expert Group for JSF 2.0. He is a software artisan with extensive experience in combining server-side Java with the latest web browser technologies to deliver a rich and usable experience for the end user on the web.

Jeremy is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as JavaOne, The Spring Experience, SpringOne, JSFOne, TheServerSide Java Symposium, and Java and Flex user group events, and always enjoys getting out and showing his fellow developers how to bend web browsers to their will and the possibilities of what can be created with Spring and its wealth of complimentary web technologies.

Ben Hale

dm Server Team Core Developer
Ben Hale is a senior software engineer with Springsource and a core developer on the SpringSource dm Server project. Ben specializes in middleware development with using technologies such as OSGi and Aspect Oriented Programming as well as directing the build and release processes for all products in the Spring and SpringSource portfolios.

His interests include middle-tier architecture and effective build and release management strategies.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Ben spent several years leading teams in architecture and development of large-scale enterprise management applications for the telecommunications industry.

John Hann

Sr. Software Engineer with VMWare
John has been pushing the limits of the web since 1996 and has been totally engulfed in Javascript, HTML, and CSS since 2004. Of the 70+ enterprise-scale apps he's led, notable achievements include Ajax-ish and JSON-RPC-like browser apps way back in 1999 (US Patent 7,016,751), composable Javascript constructors for creating draggable modal dialogs in 2004, and a Javascript non-preemptive multi-tasking framework in 2007. When he's not working on his “top secret” project at VMWare or his latest side-project with his kids, John is sure to be coding tenaciously on the next generation of Javascript libraries at http://cujojs.github.com.

More about John: http://unscriptable.com/

Colin Harrington

Senior Consultant, Object Partners, Inc
Colin Harrington is a Senior Consultant at Object Partners, Inc with over 3.5 years of Grails experience. Based in Minnesota, Colin has 10+ years of experience developing web-based applications.

Colin is an agile practitioner and has been a key component of many powerful fast-paced local and remote teams with varying levels of composition and ability. He is a Technical leader and a forward thinker with a knack for delivering potent and engaging web-applications.

Colin is an active member of the Groovy and Grails community and an active speaker at local user groups, events and conferences such as MinneBar, GUM, GR8Conf in the US, etc.

Chris Harris

European Solution Architect at 10gen
Chris Harris is a European Solution Architect at 10gen. Prior to 10gen, Chris was EMEA Architect at SpringSource responsible for evangelising vFabric products and defining architectural solutions for customers across EMEA. With the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware, Chris focused on how virtualization and cloud computing can be used to address the complexity within the Enterprise. Before joining SpringSource, Chris spent his time at RedHat/JBoss providing consultancy to major clients across EMEA.

Derek Henninger

Director R&D - Tools
Derek Henninger is the director of R&D for the SpringSource tools, including STS, Roo, and WaveMaker. Derek joined VMware through the acquisition of WaveMaker Software. At WaveMaker Derek led the development and definition of the WaveMaker Studio development product. Derek has over 20 years of experience in development tools, including Progress Software, Persistence Software, and Metaphor.

Jennifer Hickey

Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource
Jennifer Hickey is a Sr. Software Engineer with SpringSource/VMware, with over a decade of experience in software engineering. Jennifer is a member of the Cloud Foundry team, specializing in developer experience and support of frameworks such as Spring, Grails, Rails, and Sinatra. She is passionate about increasing developer productivity in the cloud. Jennifer has led or contributed to a number of SpringSource projects, including Hyperic and tc Server. She has been involved in converting multiple large EJB/legacy codebases to Spring. Prior to joining SpringSource, Jennifer was a principal architect of a large-scale network management system.

Gunnar Hillert

MTS @ SpringSource/VMware; Spring Integration Team
Gunnar Hillert is a member of technical staff (MTS) at SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. He is a committer for Spring Integration, Spring AMQP and also contributes to the Cloud Foundry project. Gunnar heads the Atlanta Java Users Group and is an organizer for the DevNexus developer conference.

A native from Berlin, Germany, Gunnar has been calling Atlanta home for the past 11 years. He is an avid gardener specializing in anything sub-tropical such as bananas, palm trees and bamboo. As time permits, Gunnar works on his Spanish language skills and he and his wife Alysa are raising their two children tri-lingually (English, German, Spanish). Gunnar blogs at: http://blog.hillert.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ghillert

Juergen Hoeller

Spring Framework co-founder and project lead
Juergen Hoeller is co-founder of the Spring Framework open source project and has been serving as the project lead and release manager for the core framework since 2003. Juergen is an experienced software architect and consultant with outstanding expertise in code organization, transaction management and enterprise messaging.

Michael Hunger

Brian Jimerson

Chief Architect for Avantia
Brian is the Chief Architect for Avantia, Inc., a custom solutions firm that specializes in Spring and open source solutions for enterprises. Brian has more than 7 years of experience designing and developing enterprise Spring solutions, and has been a Spring and Grails advocate for both Fortune 500 companies and SMB organizations. Brian is also actively involved in the Spring, Grails, and vFabric communities.

Mark Johnson

Staff System Engineer @ VMware
Mark Johnson is a Staff System Engineer at VMware where he focuses on helping people learn more about SpringSource technologies and they can aid enterprise applications.

Mark has worked on a wide range of technology during his career. Most recently he has focused on Groovy, Grails, and Scala as technologies which enable high quality applications quickly.

Mark is active in the software community as the President of the New England Java Users Group (NEJUG) and a regular presenter to user groups and various conferenes. When not working, Mark can be found riding his mountain bike on local trails and playing with his family

Paul King

co-author of "Groovy in Action"
Paul King leads ASERT, an organization based in Brisbane, Australia which provides software development, training and mentoring services to customers wanting to embrace new technologies, harness best practices and innovate. He has been contributing to open source projects for nearly 20 years and is an active committer on numerous projects including Groovy. Paul speaks at international conferences, publishes in software magazines and journals, and is a co-author of Manning's best-seller: Groovy in Action.

Kenneth Kousen

Author of "Making Java Groovy"
Ken Kousen is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., through which he does technical training, mentoring, and consulting in all areas of Java and XML. He is the author of the O'Reilly screencast "Up and Running Groovy", and the upcoming Manning book about Java/Groovy integration, entitled "Making Java Groovy".

He has been a tech reviewer for several books on software development. Over the past decade he's taught thousands of developers in business and industry. He is also an adjunct professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute site in Hartford, CT. His academic background includes two BS degrees from M.I.T., an MS and a Ph.D. from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I.

Ramnivas Laddad

Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at SpringSource
Ramnivas Laddad is a SpringSource Principal Enginner. He has over a decade of experience in applying his enterprise Java and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) expertise to middleware, design automation, networking, web application, user interface, and security projects.

Ramnivas Laddad is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP and Spring. He is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative AOP applications to solve real-world problems. Ramnivas, a Spring framework committer, is also an active presenter at leading industry events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, Software Development, and has been an active member of both the AspectJ and Spring communities from their beginnings.

Guillaume LaForge

Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource
As Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource, Guillaume Laforge is the official Groovy Project Manager. He initiated the creation of the Grails web framework, and created the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit for Google App Engine. He is also a frequent conference speaker presenting Groovy and Grails at JavaOne, SpringOne, QCon, the Sun TechDays, and JavaPolis. Guillaume also co-authored Groovy in Action. Before founding G2One, which was acquired by SpringSource in late 2008, and taking the role of VP Technology, Guillaume worked for OCTO Technology, a consultancy focusing on architecture and agile methodologies. While at OCTO, Guillaume developed new offerings around Groovy and Grails for its customers.

Costin Leau

Lead, Spring GemFire, Hadoop, Redis
Costin Leau is an engineer within the SpringSource. His interests include data access and aspect oriented programming. With significant development experience, Costin has worked on various Spring Framework features (cache abstraction, JPA, java config), led the Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring OSGi probject), Spring GemFire and the Spring-inspired, OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Service RI. Currently Costin is working in the NOSQL and Big Data area, leading the Spring integration with Hadoop and Redis.

Peter Ledbrook

Grails Advocate at SpringSource
A long-time Grails user, Peter is currently a committer to the project and officially Grails Advocate at SpringSource, a division of VMware. He is also co-author of Grails in Action with Glen Smith.

Martin Lippert

Lead, SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring IDE
Martin leads the team of the SpringSource Tool Suite and the Spring IDE and works together with the tools team on providing the best developer tools out there for Spring and Cloud Foundry. Before joining SpringSource/VMware, Martin founded (together with colleagues) it-agile, a leading consulting and development company focused on agile software development, and worked many years as consultant and coach for agile software development and flexible and modularized architectures. He is author of papers, articles, and books on various topics including agile software development, Eclipse technology and refactoring techniques.

Kenneth Liu

Lead Developer for IEEE Spectrum
Ken is a software engineer for the IEEE based in the NYC metro area. He leads the development of several websites for IEEE Spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org).

Ken has been working with Groovy and Grails exclusively for the past two years and has over 15 years of experience building large Java-based applications in many diverse industries including publishing, pharma, automotive, telecom, and travel. Ken holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Josh Long

Developer Advocate
Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the lead author on Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs at blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.

Wayne Lund

One of the original creators of Spring Batch, vFabric Senior Systems Engineer
Wayne Lund is a Senior Systems Engineer within VMware vFabric. Currently Wayne is on the Java Batch expert group (JSR-352) working to standardize the use of Java Batch in the enterprise, which has just been released for public review. Prior to coming to VMware Wayne has been working as an enterprise Java Architect from the earliest days of Java. While at Accenture he was one of the Chief Architects of Spring Batch, a joint effort between Accenture and SpringSource, and introduced the Java Community to Spring Batch at Java One 2007 along with Rod Johnson and Scott Wintermute.

Jan Machacek

Co-author of "Pro Spring"
Jan is an enthusiastic Java and Scala programmer with a long history of large and successful systems.

Jan has used the Spring Framework from its earliest versions and then shared his experience with the framework itself and with writing elegant Spring code in Pro Spring and Pro Spring 2.5; he is an expert in most projects in the Spring Portfolio.

Alongside the Spring Framework and Java, Jan has extensive experience in functional and strongly typed programming in Scala. He is the author of Specs2 Spring and Akka Patterns projects which aim to give boost to Java programmers who want to try out Scala.

Jan also shares his expertise and passion for software as the chief editor of the Open Source Journal

Tom McCuch

Solution Engineer, Hortonworks
Tom McCuch is a Solution Engineer for Hortonworks with over twenty two years of experience in software engineering. Tom specializes in the architecture, implementation, and deployment of distributed systems requiring high Reliability, Availability, and Scalability (RAS) features. Prior to Hortonworks, Tom worked for SpringSource - handling field architecture for their global accounts including Financial Services, Transportation, and Energy. Tom has consulted enterprise clients across multiple industries in the architecture of mission-critical solutions based on open source software as well as led the engineering of enterprise Java middleware supporting next-generation telecommunications products deployed at tier-1 telcos both in the U.S. and Europe.

Paco Nathan

Data Scientist
Data Scientist @ http://ConcurrentInc.com. Developer Evangelist for http://Cascading.org open source project. Expert in Hadoop, R, cloud computing, machine learning, predictive analytics, NLP. BS MathSci and CS CompSci from Stanford, 25+ yrs in tech industry. For the past several years, I've been leading Data Science teams, working with large scale MapReduce applications.

Mark Pollack

Founder Spring.NET
Dr. Mark Pollack has been a core Spring (Java) developer since 2003 and founded its Microsoft counterpart, Spring.NET, in 2004. Mark now leads the Spring Data project that aims to simplify application development with new data technologies around big data and NoSQL databases. Prior to working on Spring project, Mark worked in offline computing in high-energy nuclear physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory and then moved to the financial services industry as a technical lead for front-office trading systems.

Arjen Poutsma

Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services
Arjen Poutsma is a Staff Engineer at SpringSource (a division of VMware) with more than fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both Java EE and Microsoft .NET.

In 2004, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations.

Arjen is the founder and the project lead for the Spring Web Services. This Spring project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Recently, Arjen worked on the REST support in Spring 3.0 and 3.1.

Jags Ramnarayan

Chief Architect, GemFire Data Grid products
As the Chief Architect for GemFire product line, Jags is responsible for the technology direction for its high performance distributed data Grid and virtualization platform. Jags has represented GemStone Systems in the EJB expert group and the J2EE platform specification. In the past, Jags represented BEA in the W3C SOAP protocol specification, JAXM and other standards. Jags has presented in several conferences in the past on Data management, clustering and grid computing(Javaone, W3C workshop, Java user groups, Open Grid Forum, Platform Grid conference etc) . He has over 20 years of experience, a bachelors degree in computer science and a masters degree in management of science and technology.

Nilanjan Raychaudhuri

Author of "Scala in Action"
Nilanjan is a consultant and trainer for Typesafe. He started his professional career as a software developer in 2000 using object oriented programming languages. Nilanjan has previously worked with IBM, ThoughtWorks and LivingSocial where he gained a lot of experience in managing and developing software solutions in Java/JEE, Ruby, Groovy and also in Scala. He is zealous about programming in Scala ever since he got introduced to this beautiful language. Currently he spends his spare time working on the scala-webmachine open source project (restful resource framework). In the past Nilanjan worked on other open source projects and libraries. At Typesafe he is mainly teaching and designing Scala and Play courses and helping customers to adopt these technologies. Nilanjan enjoys sharing his experience via talks at various conferences. He is also the author of the "Scala in Action" book.

Chris Richardson

Author of POJOs in Action
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and works on cloud technology. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

Ken Rimple

Co-author Spring Roo in Action
Co-author with Srini Penchikala of Spring Roo in Action, and long time SpringSource technology consultant at Chariot Solutions. I led the charge for Chariot to become a SpringSource/VMware training provider, as we have been working with Spring as an consulting partner since the Interface21 days.

I teach courses in Spring Maven and the Nexus repository manager, as well in other technologies. In my spare time, I run the Chariot TechCast podcast, which is in its 5th year online, and help to organize the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference each year. I blog about Roo, Grails, Groovy and Spring at rimple.com and also have written articles that have appeared at DZone and Oracle's Java.NET blog.

Graeme Rocher

Grails Project Lead
Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Graeme joined SpringSource in late 2008 upon the acquisition of G2One Inc. Before founding G2One, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in open source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.

Gary Russell

Staff Engineer, SpringSource; Spring Integration Team
Gary has been in software engineering, concentrating on Enterprise Integration, for over 30 years on various platforms, and in the Java space since the late '90s.

He has been developing with the Spring Framework since 2004 and joined SpringSource/VMware in 2009 in a consulting role. From 2009 until the end of 2011 he taught Core Spring and Enterprise Integration with Spring to several hundred developers, as well as providing Enterprise Integration consulting services with Spring Integration, Spring Batch and Core Spring.

He has been a committer on the Spring Integration project for nearly 3 years and became a full time member of the engineering team in January 2012.

Brian Saville

Lead Engineer at Adaptive Computing
Brian Saville spent the majority of his life pretending he did not want to be a software engineer. After a BS in Computer Engineering and a MS in IT, he found that he just wanted to write applications. He has spent several years scripting and writing web applications as a system administrator and web developer, but has most enjoyed working with web frameworks such as Grails. After being introduced to the project a year and a half ago, Brian has become an active member of the Grails community, writing several plugins and frequenting the mailing lists. He is currently the lead engineer for a major API integration application written in Grails at Adaptive Computing.

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.

Mark Spritzler

Mark teaches many classes for SpringSource as a contract trainer
Mark is the owner of Perfect World Programming a training and consulting company. 99% of Mark's work is done through SpringSource teaching Spring's Core Spring, Spring with Hibernate and Enterprise Integration with Spring.

Mark has over 20 years software development for many businesses and industries specializing in middle tier and backend development. As a former DBA and Architect Mark focuses on data driven applications that are both performant and robust.

Mark can also be found at www.javaranch.com answering questions in the Spring Framework forum. He was also part of the SCJP 5.0 exam creation team and technical editor for a few books.

Rossen Stoyanchev

Senior Staff Engineer, VMware
Rossen is a Spring Framework developer focusing on Spring MVC as well as Spring Web Flow. His 17+ year background includes work on trading and risk management software, investment accounting, e-commerce web applications, directory services, among others. Prior to becoming a full-time Spring Framework developer, Rossen spent several years teaching and consulting clients building enterprise Java applications with Spring on a broad range of topics.

Venkat Subramaniam

Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. Venkat is also an adjunct faculty and teaches CS courses remotely at the University of Houston. He is author of ".NET Gotchas," coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer," author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" and "Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Josh Suereth

Senior Software Engineer, Typesafe
Josh Suereth is a Senior Software Engineer at Typesafe and the author of "Scala In Depth.” He has been a Scala enthusiast ever since he came to know this beautiful language in 2007. He started his professional career as a software developer in 2004, cutting his teeth with C++, STL, and Boost. Around the same time, Java fever was spreading and his interest was migrating to web-hosted distributed Java-delivered solutions to aide health departments discover the outbreaks of disease - everything from EJB to Hibernate/Spring and even some Applets. He introduced Scala into his company code base first in 2007, and soon after he was infected by Scala fever, contributing to the Scala IDE, maven-Scala-plugin, and Scala itself. In 2009, he began writing the book "Scala In Depth" which provides practical support for using Scala in everyday applications. Today, Josh is the author of several open source Scala projects, including the Scala automated resource management library, the PGP sbt plugin, as well as contributing to key components in the Scala ecosystem, like the maven-Scala-plugin. His current work at Typesafe Inc. has him doing anything from building MSIs to profiling performance issues. Josh regularly shares his expertise in articles and talks.

Dave Syer

Lead of Spring Batch, SpringSource Principal Consultant
Dr David Syer is the technical lead on Spring Batch, the batch processing framework and toolkit from SpringSource. He is an experienced, delivery-focused architect and development manager. He has designed and built successful enterprise software solutions using Spring, and implemented them in major financial institutions worldwide. David is known for his clear and informative training style and has deep knowledge and experience with all aspects of real-life usage of the Spring framework. He enjoys creating business value from the application of simple principles to enterprise architecture. David joined SpringSource from a leading risk management software vendor where he worked closely with SpringSource on a number of projects. Recent publications have appeared in Balance Sheet, Operational Risk and Derivatives Technology.

Guillermo Tantachuco

Regional Sr. Systems Engineer , VMware
Guillermo is an award-winning Enterprise Architecture practitioner with 17+ years of progressive experience in different industries. As a Regional Senior Systems Engineer for VMware's Cloud Application Platform division, Guillermo works with customers to understand their business needs and challenges and helps them seize new opportunities by leveraging vFabric to modernize their IT architecture. Guillermo is passionate about his family, business, technology and soccer.

Gil Tene

CTO & Co-founder, Azul Systems
Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years and has been building Java technology-based products since 1995. Gil pioneered Azul's Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4), Java Virtualization, Elastic Memory, and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that combine to deliver the industry's most scalable and robust Java platforms. In 2006 he was named one of the Top 50 Agenda Setters in the technology industry by Silicon.com. Prior to co-founding Azul, Gil held key technology positions at Nortel Networks, Shasta Networks and at Check Point Software Technologies, where he delivered several industry-leading traffic management solutions including the industry's first Firewall-1 based security appliance. He architected operating systems for Stratus Computer, clustering solutions at Qualix/Legato, and served as an officer in the Israeli Navy Computer R and D unit. Gil holds a BSEE from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and has been awarded 28 patents in computer-related technologies.

Dave Tillman

Kelly Tisdell

Vice President, Broadleaf Commerce
Kelly is Vice President and senior engineer at Broadleaf Commerce, a company that builds and distributes an open source eCommerce framework built on The Spring Framework. Besides contributing to the features and functions of Broadleaf Commerce, Kelly helps Broadleaf clients to implement, customize, and ultimately realize the full value of Broadleaf Commerce. Prior to joining Broadleaf, Kelly spent 14 years working as a consultant, focusing on application development and system integration using Java based technologies. Kelly is originally from Canada and lives in Austin, Texas.

David Turanski

Lead - Spring Data GemFire
David Turanski is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMWare. David is a member of the Spring Data team and lead of the Spring Data GemFire project. He is also a committer on the Spring Integration project. David has extensive experience as a developer, architect and consultant serving a variety of industries. In addition he has trained hundreds of developers how to use the Spring Framework effectively.

Ryan Vanderwerf

Chief Architect @ Reachforce
Ryan is Chief Architect and Director of Products at ReachForce and formerly Lead Architect at
Developerprogram.com.

ReachForce provides B2B marketers with cloud-based software and services to accelerate lead conversions from inbound, outbound, and database marketing initiatives

Ryan is currently building a Grails infrastructure for ReachForce as well as teaching Grails to the developer team.

In the past Ryan has he has architected a Grails solution for Developerprogram.com that allows rapid deployment of Developer Program portals for all kinds of companies, specializing in the mobile industry. He has also done Java and Linux based webcasting for events such as
SXSW, built telecom software, and ASP's for the financial sector.

Vaughn Vernon

Principal Architect, Consultant - ShiftMethod
Vaughn Vernon is a veteran software craftsman with more than 25 years of experience, currently working as an independent consultant. Vaughn is a DDD and distributed systems practitioner, and the author of the book "Implementing Domain-Driven Design" published in 2012 by Addison-Wesley.

Abdul Wajid

CSSD Solution Architect - CAP, VMware
Abdul has over 12 years of rich & insightful experience in software solution development. He graduated with a Bachelor of computer science from Bangalore University, India.
He started as a java developer, Has good experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design along with the design and development of complex, business critical applications using JEE technologies. He has been involved in solution proposals, Solution Design/recommendations, Enterprise Application Integration, Application modernization, Data modernization, OSS/BSS solutions, Cloud adoption for Paas Solutions using vFabric platform. Abdul has been in VMware since March 2012, and has contributed to IP initiatives for vFabric cloud application platform as part of global solutions and service engineering team.

Craig Walls

Author of Spring in Action
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for almost 18 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 4 birds and 3 dogs.

Phil Webb

Senior Software Engineer at VMware
Phil Webb is developer on the core Spring Framework and Spring Web Flow projects. He is member of the JSR-344 expert group and has been working with Java for over 10 years. Phil is particularly interested in server-side web technologies and has been working to improve integration between Spring and JSF. Born in the UK, Phil is currently living in California.

Wesley Williams

Senior Consulting Architect, EMC
Wes Williams is a Senior Consultant with EMC specializing in vFabric technologies and Domain-Driven Design.

He has extensive experience (25+ years) as a hands-on software developer, architect and designer supporting the creation of enterprise-class information technology systems in a wide variety of industries from small businesses to Fortune 10 companies using big, fast data. He is certified with both Microsoft and Java technologies, including certifications with Java architecture and enterprise architecture. He was formerly a guest instructor for Architecture at Sun Microsystems.

Rob Winch

Spring Security Lead, Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource, VMware
Rob Winch is currently a Senior Software Engineer at VMware and is the project lead of the Spring Security framework. In the past he has worked as a Software Architect at Cerner, the largest provider of electronic medical systems in the US, securing health care applications. Throughout his career he has developed hands on experience integrating Spring Security with an array of security standards (i.e. LDAP, SAML, CAS, OAuth, etc). Before his focus was security he worked as an independent web contractor, in proteomics research at Loyola University Chicago, and on the Globus Toolkit at Argonne National Laboratory. His interests include web security and identity management, high performance computing, and ALM tooling. When he is not sitting in front of a computer he enjoys participating in a variety of intramural sports and playing guitar.

David Winterfeldt

Staff Engineer, VMware
David Winterfeldt works at VMware on the VMware vFabric Application Director project. It enables developers and organizations to deploy applications to the cloud by having a logical abstraction for software services and application topologies. This allows an application to be easily deployed multiple times to different environments.

David has been doing software development for over 20 years. He's been using Java since 1998 and involved in using Open Source almost as long. David has focused on Web and Enterprise development for most of his career, and started working with the Spring Framework in 2006.

David runs the website Spring by Example, which is a site for sharing Spring examples. The site is a general resource for Spring and should ultimately save developers time. He's is also an Apache committer on Struts and Commons Validator, as well as the creator of Commons Validator (although currently no longer active on either).

Oleg Zhurakousky

Sr. Software Engineer, Spring Integration team - SpringSource/VMWare
Oleg is a Sr. Software Engineer with SpringSource/VMWare and a core developer of Spring Integration framework. He has 16+ years of experience in software engineering across multiple disciplines including software architecture and design, consulting, business analysis and application development. After starting his career in the world of COBOL & CICS, Oleg has been focusing on professional Java and Java EE development since 1999. Since 2004 he has been heavily involved in using several open source technologies and platforms with Spring Framework at the forefront, while working on a number of projects around the world and spanning industries such as Telecommunication, Banking, Law Enforcement, US DOD and others.
You can regularly spot Oleg on the Spring Forums contributing to a number of topics.

A resident of the Philadelphia area, Oleg enjoys windsurfing, scuba diving, snowboarding, hockey and traveling when he can find some spare time.

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

Sessions

Andres Almiray - Griffon Project Lead

Scott Andrews - Software Engineer

Stefan Armbruster - Consultant focused on Grails & Neo4j

Chris Beams - Spring Framework Committer

Burt Beckwith - Core Member of the Grails Development Team

Emad Benjamin - Staff Solutions Architect, VMware

Sebastian Blanc - Software Engineer

Marius Bogoevici - Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nenad Bogojevic - Software Architect with Amadeus IT Group

Stephen Bohlen - Senior Software Engineer, VMware

Sam Brannen - Senior Software Consultant, Swiftmind

Jon Brisbin - SpringSource R&D

Jeff Brown - Core Member of the Grails Development Team

Edward Callahan -

Brian Cavalier - Front-End Engineer and Open Source Fanatic

Cedric Champeau - Core Groovy Committer

Roy Clarkson - Senior Software Engineer at VMware

Andy Clement - Staff Engineer with SpringSource

Adrian Colyer - CTO of SpringSource

Emiliano Conde - Founder & President of jBilling Software

Benjamin Corrie - Staff Engineer in Java Performance

Ellery Crane - Senior Java Developer at Dealer.com

Luke Daley - Principal Engineer @ Gradleware

Damien Dallimore - Developer Evangelist, Splunk

Manuel David - Consulting Architect, VMware

John Davies - CTO and Co-Founder of Incept5

Hans Dockter - Founder of Gradle and CEO of Gradleware

Brian Dussault - Staff Engineer, VMware

Emil Eifrem - CEO, Neo4J Technologies

Andrew Eisenberg - Groovy-Eclipse project lead

Todd Ellermann - VP of Engineering for VirtualTourist.com

Andrew Elmore - Head of Development at C24

Lee Faus - Founding Partner, Cloud Nine Partners

Mark Fisher - Spring Integration Lead

Jonathan Fullam - Sr Systems Engineer, SpringSource Specialist

Talya Gendler - Senior Software Engineer, VMware

Oliver Gierke - Engineer at SpringSource

Lyor Goldstein - Spring Insight team member

Jeremy Grelle - Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource

Ben Hale - dm Server Team Core Developer

John Hann - Sr. Software Engineer with VMWare

Colin Harrington - Senior Consultant, Object Partners, Inc

Chris Harris - European Solution Architect at 10gen

Derek Henninger - Director R&D - Tools

Jennifer Hickey - Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource

Gunnar Hillert - MTS @ SpringSource/VMware; Spring Integration Team

Juergen Hoeller - Spring Framework co-founder and project lead

Michael Hunger -

Brian Jimerson - Chief Architect for Avantia

Mark Johnson - Staff System Engineer @ VMware

Paul King - co-author of "Groovy in Action"

Kenneth Kousen - Author of "Making Java Groovy"

Ramnivas Laddad - Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at SpringSource

Guillaume LaForge - Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource

Costin Leau - Lead, Spring GemFire, Hadoop, Redis

Peter Ledbrook - Grails Advocate at SpringSource

Martin Lippert - Lead, SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring IDE