News & Events

We are pleased to announce that eight first-class speakers have been added to The Spring Experience conference agenda, bringing the total number of technical sessions at the show to 60.  Our new additions include:

Mike Keith, Oracle architect and lead of the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) Patrick Linskey, lead of the BEA WebLogic EJB solution and Apache Open JPA project Ross Mason, founder of the Mule Integration Platform and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Shay Banon, creator of the Compass Search Engine Framework John Lewis, principal developer of Spring Portlet MVC Jeff Patton, user experience and human factors expert at ThoughtWorks Jonas Bonér, founder of AspectWerkz and lead engineer at Terracotta Matt Raible, author of Spring Live and creator of AppFuse

Noteable new sessions added to the agenda include:

• Where the JPA sidewalk ends: Tips for drawing outside the lines -  Mike and Patrick will show how to successfully venture beyond the JPA specification to get work done, while at the same time staying within its reach.
• Applying Domain-Driven-Design in the Enterprise with AspectJ - Ramnivas will explore architectural strategies for tackling a complex problem domain with the help of AspectJ.
• User Experience Distilled - You will hear direct from Jeff, a user experience specialist, how to to improve the quality of user interface in your software.

In addition, we are pleased to announce a special new block of RapidFire technical sessions Saturday evening.  These sessions will be led by the leaders of popular and emerging products in the larger Spring community.  They are a great opportunity for developers to learn the latest about Mule 2.0, Open JPA, Terracotta Clustering for Spring, Compass Search, and AppFuse 2.0.

See you in December 2006 for a one-of-a-kind show.  Register before September 8th to secure a spot for your team with the early bird discount.