09:30 – 10:30 Keynote: Spring into the Future - Rod Johnson
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Rod is the father of Spring. The Spring Framework began in 2002 with Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development; one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE, Rod is recognised as one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. With the rapid expansion of SpringSource and move to new corporate HQ in Silicon Valley, this was a rare UK opportunity to hear Rod provide his views and explore the future of J2EE application development. Download Rod's Slides here |
10:40 – 11:40 What's New in Spring 2.5 - Sam Brannen
This session provided attendees with an overview of the new features available in Spring 2.5. Specifically, highlighting the simplified and extensible configuration support provided via configuration annotations and new XML configuration namespaces, new Java 6 support, updates to Spring AOP, improved JDBC and JPA support, annotation-driven web MVC controllers, the new annotation-based TestContext framework for unit and integration tests and more!
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12:00 – 13:00 Spring as a Full Stack Web Framework - Dave Syer
This session explored the "full stack" web framework trend and answered the question: how does Spring stack up? This session defined what a full-stack web framework is, then provided a fair technical comparison between a Spring-centric web development stack and the alternatives. Attendees learned the feature-set of modern "full stack" web frameworks, and what Spring has that differentiates itself from the pack.
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14:00 – 15:00 Building Enterprise Applications with Spring Portfolio - Adrian Colyer/Rob Harrop
Spring is used in production in mission critical applications all around the world. This session looks at Spring from a runtime perspective. On top of the Spring kernel is the enterprise service layer which provides runtime support for managing transactions, data access, messaging, and more. Delegates learned what happens in the Spring runtime when your application is created, understand the request processing pipeline and the role that Spring plays in it and get vital "under the hood" insights into how transaction, security, and other enterprise services are delivered at runtime.
15:00 – 15:15 SpringSource Professional Services – Greg Southey
A brief resume of some of the projects recently completed by the UK Professional Services team and their capabilities for 2008.
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15:15 – 16:15 Spring in Production - Adrian Colyer/ Rob Harrop
Get the latest updates on the breaking news from the biggest annual Spring conference including information on new Spring products and developments. This is a vital session to understand where Spring is going in 2008 and beyond!
16.30 – 17.30 Round Table Discussion - Rod Johnson, Adrian Colyer and Dave Syer
Your chance to ask Rod, Adrian and Dave anything that's on your mind regarding Spring!
