News & Events

JavaOne 2012 should be an exciting conference, and San Francisco downtown is booked solid with developers from all corners of the Java community. There will be lots of activity and sessions, Java Univeristy, and as always, rock and roll baby.. this year's appreciation event is Pearl Jam and Kings of Leon! Spring enthusiasts also shouldn't miss the upcoming SpringOne 2GX Conference in Washington, DC Oct 15th-18th.

So what is SpringSource up to this year at the conference?

SpringSource Booth #5302 @ Hilton Union Square - Monday 10:30am-5, Tuesday 10am-5, Wednesday 9:30am-5
Stop by to get cool schwag, hoodies and t-shirts you might actually wear, and of course, see demos and talk to experts on Spring, Groovy/Grails, Cloud Foundry and vFabric.

Rockstar Sessions at the conference:

Monday, Oct. 1
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
What’s New in Grails 2.0?
Speaker: Graeme Rocher
Location: Parc 55 – Cyril Magnin I

8:30 pm – 9:15 pm
Web Framework Smackdown 2012
Speaker: Graeme Rocher
Location: Parc 55 – Cyril Magnin II/III

Tuesday, Oct. 2
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Java EE and Spring Framework Panel Discussion
Speaker: Chris Beams
Location: Parc 55 – Market Street

Wednesday, Oct. 3
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Developing Polyglot Persistence Applications
Speaker: Chris Richardson
Location: Parc 55 – Market Street

11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Script Bowl 2012: The Battle of the JVM-Based Languages
Speaker: Guillaume Laforge
Location: Hilton San Francisco – Plaza A/B

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Developing Applications with Cloud Services
Speaker: Chris Richardson
Location: Parc 55 – Embarcadero

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
What’s New in Groovy 2.0?
Speaker: Guillaume Laforge
Location: Hilton San Francisco – Golden Gate 6/7/8

Spring At Java University: @ Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Hotel Nikko San Francisco - Sunday 8am-3:30

Extensive and fast-paced hands-on University Sessions on Sunday, learn while you are at the conference. You can register for Java University for 800.00 USD only or attend with the conference. SpringSource will be offering full day course: Developing Enterprise Applications with the Spring Framework

Instructor: Chris Richardson

Course Level: Intermediate

Course Description:
The Spring Framework is a widely used full-stack Java technology–based application framework. The foundations of the Spring Framework are dependency injection (DI), aspect-oriented programming (AOP), and portable service abstractions (PSAs). Together, these foundational elements simplify application development and boost developer productivity.

This course covers a broad range of topics to give participants a clear understanding of the Spring Framework. You will learn about DI and how it promotes loose coupling and simplifies test-driven development (TDD). The course also describes AOP and how it simplifies application code by promoting modularity and separation of concerns. You will learn how PSAs, which provide extensive support for middle-tier functionality such as persistence, remoting, and messaging, dramatically reduce the amount of you need to write and improve application portability. This course describes the new features in Spring 3.1 and surveys the numerous other projects in the Spring ecosystem. By the end of the course, participants should be ready to apply Spring in their own applications.

• The Spring Lightweight Container Architecture, Including Inversion of Control
• Agile, Domain-Driven Design Techniques with Spring
• Effective JDBC and Persistence Data Access
• Declarative Transaction Management
• Pragmatic AOP
• Unit Testing in Isolation
• Rapid System Integration Testing
• Spring Support for JSR-250 Annotations