Well, after a short hiatus of getting back to “real” work, I’m going to attempt to squeeze in another Spring Experience 2007 entry. This particular session was my first of Friday morning. I’ve always enjoyed Keith Donald as a speaker, having first heard him at TheServerSide.com’s Java In Action conference in 2005, and again during [...]

Well it had to end eventually. As you can see, I’m hopelessly behind on my blog entries, having only made it through my first day of sessions. I’ve still got several more I intend to cover (I probably won’t do the last two as I started blanking out - I think my brain was pretty [...]

This was a truly fascinating talk. If you ever wanted to learn the entire history and landscape of dependency injection (DI), this was your opportunity. I really didn’t realize how deep of a topic DI really is.
According to Rod, DI had its beginnings in 2002, in the Interface 21 Framework that was born from his [...]

This talk looked really exciting going in. Jeremy is a member of the Spring Web Products team and the lead of Spring Faces, as well as a member of the JSF 2.0 Expert Group. He describes himself as the resident Ajax freak at SpringSource. Jeremy began by discussing the current Ajax landscape, highlighting what he [...]

This was my second talk of TSE 2007. I have to admit I chose it by process of elimination - none of the second session talks particularly jumped out and grabbed me like Chris Richardson’s talk.
Juergen is the project lead for the Spring Framework, so he was the obvious choice to give this talk. Juergen [...]

As you can see, Rod really likes my Spring MVC configuration.

This was my very first session of the conference. I’ve really been looking forward to it. I became pretty excited about object-oriented programming when I first really learned it in my computer simulation course at Ole Miss. In that course we built discrete event simulation programs using collaborating Java threads. Each thread implemented an object [...]

Greetings from The Spring Experience 2007 in Hollywood, FL. So far this has been a great conference - I’m currently waiting for my third session of the day to start. As much as I enjoy all of the hype and eye candy at JavaOne, I really get a lot more out of these smaller conferences [...]