Ben Hale

Ben Hale

Cloud Foundry Java Experience Engineer


Ben Hale is a software engineer with Pivotal working to constantly improve the Java experience on Cloud Foundry.

Prior to working on Cloud Foundry, Ben worked on large-scale middleware management tools, tc Server, dm Server (OSGi), and Spring. If you go back far enough, he even worked on a network management and monitoring application, but will deny it when asked.




Presentations

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.

In addition, the implementation of this API was done with many of the new features in Spring 3 and are a good demonstration of the power it provides.