An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) brings flow-related functionality such as message routing and transformation to a Service-Oriented Architecture. An ESB also provides a layer of abstraction with endpoints for various protocols and transports. These features promote decoupling of integration logic from business functions, flexibility in the transport layer, and pluggability of POJO services.

While ESB is a vast topic, this session will offer a glimpse of a few technologies (scheduling, messaging, and remoting) within the context of an ESB. The content will be heavily example-based with a good deal of code and configuration. The emphasis will be on Spring's enabling role for implementing POJO-based solutions that achieve flexibility in the face of the constantly changing requirements of enterprise integration.

Spring's Portlet MVC framework is one of the major new additions in Spring 2.0, bringing the proven benefits of the servlet-based Spring MVC framework to JSR-168 Portlet development.

In this presentation, you will learn how to use Portlet MVC to develop enterprise portlet applications. It will cover the framework's architecture and API in a direct comparison with Spring MVC. It will also include a walkthrough of a sample portlet application with a detailed review of the implementation and configuration. Mark will highlight a number of the framework's compelling features as well as its integration with Spring Web Flow.