Spring Fundamentals & Philosophy

When Rod Johnson wrote J2EE Design and Development he called J2EE "the best platform for enterprise development today", claiming the problem in those days wasn't J2EE itself but that it was "often used badly". In this session attendees will leave with an understanding of the big picture--the fundamentals that make Java and JEE application development work in practice. You will learn the foundations of the Spring Framework project and the principles of the developers and community behind it.

At the heart of Rod's book were techniques that showed us how to make J2EE work in practice. And delivered with that book were 30,000 lines of code that put those techniques into action. Add Juergen, Thomas, Alef, Colin, Keith, and Rob (in that order), and one hell of a passionate user community and, well, the rest they say "is history".

In this session attendees will leave with an understanding of the big picture--the fundamentals that make Java and JEE application development work in practice.

About Ben Hale

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.

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