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.
In recent years, Scala has been gaining traction amongst Java developers. They choose Scala as a compelling alternative for the Java language itself. Amongst its many qualities, Scala runs on the JVM, introduces many interesting new language concepts, and makes it relatively easy to reuse existing Java code. None of the qualities are unique to Scala per se, but the fact remains that Scala is getting more and more interest, perhaps because of its type-safe nature (as opposed to the many dynamic language alternatives available on the JVM).
Topics that we cover in this session are:
- Configuring a Scala bean in Spring XML
- Using Scala collections in Spring
- Using Spring templates in Scala
- Using Spring transactions
- And a big surprise!
About Arjen Poutsma
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.
More About Arjen »About Oleg Zhurakousky
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.
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