Speakers
- Ben Alex
- Michael Alford
- Andres Almiray
- Scott Andrews
- Alex Antonov
- Alef Arendsen
- Mattias Arthursson
- Shay Banon
- Jean Barmash
- Antranig Basman
- Chris Beams
- Burt Beckwith
- Peter Bell
- Tim Berglund
- Imad Bernoussi
- Jonas Boner
- Jon Brisbin
- Jeff Brown
- Kent Brown
- Dennis Callaghan
- Isaac Christoffersen
- Andy Clement
- Christophe Coenraets
- Adrian Colyer
- Michael Cote
- Hamlet D'Arcy
- Joshua Davis
- Scott Davis
- Hans Dockter
- Keith Donald
- Christian Dupuis
- Justin Edelson
- Mike Esler
- Mike Evans
- Danno Ferrin
- Robert Fischer
- Adam Fitzgerald
- Andrew Glover
- Jeremy Grelle
- Filip Hanik
- Colin Harrington
- Rob Harrop
- Ryan Heaton
- Jennifer Hickey
- Pete Higgins
- Hal Hildebrand
- Al Hilwa
- Juergen Hoeller
- Jim Jagielski
- Steve Jin
- Rod Johnson
- Mike Keith
- Jack Kennedy
- Mik Kersten
- Paul King
- Dave Klein
- Mark Kralj-Taylor
- Guillaume LaForge
- Costin Leau
- Scott Leberknight
- Peter Ledbrook
- Charles Lee
- John Lewis
- Patrick Linskey
- Martin Lippert
- Mat Lowery
- Wayne Lund
- Randy MacBlane
- Andi Mann
- Maudrit Martinez
- Ross Mason
- Tom McCuch
- Richard McDougall
- Sudhir Menon
- Marty Messer
- Russell Miles
- Jim Moore
- Ryan Morgan
- Justin Murray
- Billy Newport
- John Newton
- Peter Niederwieser
- Glyn Normington
- Brian Oliver
- Pratik Patel
- Prasad Pimplaskar
- Mark Pollack
- Alexandru Popescu
- Arjen Poutsma
- Yan Pujante
- Cameron Purdy
- Jags Ramnarayan
- Mark Richards
- Thomas Risberg
- Jared Rodriguez
- John Rymer
- Vipul Savjani
- Stefan Schmidt
- Mark Schwartz
- Nati Shalom
- Ken Sipe
- Brian Sletten
- Javier Soltero
- Randy Stafford
- Mike Stenhouse
- Matt Stine
- Rossen Stoyanchev
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Dave Syer
- Matthew Taylor
- Mark Thomas
- Greg Turnquist
- Thomas Van de Velde
- Erwin Vervaet
- Scott Vlaminck
- Alexander von Zitzewitz
- Chris Wall
- Craig Walls
- Lucas Ward
- Kevin Whinnery
- James Williams
- David Winterfeldt
- Chip Witt
- Eberhard Wolff
- Aaron Zeckoski
- Oleg Zhurakousky
- Ari Zilka
- Kris Zyp
Leaving Legacy: Strategies (and Justifications) in moving to Spring
Organizations and individuals considering the use of Spring may face a number of concerns which can impact their ability to execute: there may be an existing legacy codebase which needs to be migrated, a lack of familiarity with the new technology, or a need to justify the use of Spring instead of continued use of older technologies or use of other alternatives.
This session focuses on strategies and justifications when moving from legacy technologies such as full stack Java EE 1.4 or earlier (with or without EJB 2.x) to the Spring platform. This session will also be of use for those considering the use of Spring with or without full stack Java EE 5.
Topics covered in this session include:
- How Spring integrates with, and builds on Java EE, while offering a number of compelling benefits
- A look at Spring in comparison to EJB 2.5
- The impact of migrating a legacy, full-stack Java EE 1.4 or 1.3 application ((with or without EJB)) to the Spring platform including: - When and why a migration makes sense - Factors leading to greater or lesser complexity - Strategies and techniques when migrating an existing legacy application to Spring, including the transition period as well as the final goal
- Case study: a discussion of one customer's experience in moving a full stack, traditional Java EE 1.4 application (including the use of EJBs and messaging), originally deployed on WebLogic, to a Spring-based architecture with deployment on Tomcat
- Appendix to presentation: Detailed Spring 2.5 & EJB 3.0 comparison
About Colin Sampaleanu
Colin is Director of R&D at SpringSource. He is a co-founder of the company, and one of the original core committers on the Spring Framework project (gaining commit status in mid-2003). Since starting the company he has served in a number of roles, usually combining both technical as well as business and customer facing aspects. He is a hands-on architect with 20+ years of experience in developing commercial software, including all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Colin is co-author of 'Professional Java Development with Spring'.
Colin has had a long and varied career, including experience developing for and managing his own retail software company, other experience in the C++ shrinkwrap and enterprise software space, experience with Java since '97, and a complete focus on enterprise Java since '99.
Prior to SpringSource, Colin spent more than 4 years as architect then chief architect at a leading software incubator / VC. Colin's role was split between one part hands on architecture, design, and coding, another part mentoring and teaching best practices at the code and process level, and a final part performing technical due diligence and consulting for the VC arm. Throughout this period, Colin gained experience with and an appreciation for agile development practices as a vital part of software success.
Throughout his career, Colin's experience, wide ranging interests and general knowledge in the technology space have led him to be a resource that others have been able to draw on for advice. In general, Colin's background has left him with a deep knowledge of all it takes to successfully put out good software, at the code, process, and business level.
Along with client-facing work at SpringSource, Colin also spends significant time on Spring evangelism, having spoken on many occasion on Java EE and Spring Framework at conferences and JUGs. More About Colin »