Twin Cities Software Symposium

October 10 - 12, 2008 - Minneapolis, MN


Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington Hotel
3900 American Boulevard West
Bloomington, MN   55437
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Ken Sipe

Architect, Web Security Expert

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.



Presentations

Architecture and Scaling

Scale... what is scale... how do you applications that are scalable. How do you know if the application scales?

This session will look at server topologies and state management and how it affects scale. We'll detail a number of metrics to know and observe. In addition tools of the trade will be demonstrated such as jmeter.

Spring+JPA+Hibernate: Standards Meeting Productivity for Java Persistence

Well the standards created EntityBeans.... yea. and the community created Hibernate. Fortunately the standards body learned some lessons and created JPA. JPA requires a vendor implementation and none make a better choice then Hibernate. Combined with Spring this trio is a powerhouse when it comes to developer productivity on applications requiring persistence.

This session will look at in detail the persistence capabilities of the latest Spring 2.5 and how to provide data access capabilities, including nicely added features for unit tests. We'll focus the persistence discussion on JPA and examine a number of ORM mapping scenarios and how JPA maps to them. We'll focus on the spring integration including transactional capabilities.

Spring 2.5 - Spring without XML

Spring 2.5 is brand spanking new, with a number of fantastic features. With growth of large and complex Spring applications which struggle with xml manageability and with the added pressure of Guice and SEAM there is a push for less XML, with solution leaning towards annotations. Spring 2.5 adds to the toolset provided in Spring 2.0 to provide a development environment where XML is greatly reduced... or eliminated if you so choose.

The session walks through the new Spring 2.5 enhancements, then dives deep into annotation oriented injection. The demonstrations include standard applications as well as a look at the new Spring MVC.

Iteration 0

The success of an Agile / SCRUM project is a successful start. The first interaction is often referred to as iteration 0. Other iterations have a set of stories with clear acceptance, certain which establishes the velocity of the team and its effort. What then is accomplished in iteration 0? How do we get an Agile process started?

This session will outline all the "pre" activity tasks that lead into an agile development process. As well as the establishment of a task list of iteration 0, include the establishment of development environment, configuration management details. This will include several case histories examples of Iteration 0.

SOAs Challenges

SOA... Is it hype? What's real... and what's not? What is the right abstraction level?

The purpose of this session is to challenge the practicality of SOA and discuss the questions that we need to answer about service oriented techniques, practices and tooling. What is the right abstraction level for a service? Where does PBEL fit? When is an ESB appropriate or not?

Everyone seems to be blindly accepting the enterprise needs an ESB or SOA. This session will focus on the facts of software development and the challenges which exist today with SOA. Where are SOA techniques being abused? If you are interested in SOA this session is for you. If you are tired of the SOA hype this session is for you. Much of the discussion will stem from experienced based principles of software architecture, with a look at where SOA provides a solution and where it does not.

Books

by Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio, and Josh Long

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  • With over 3 million users/developers, Spring Framework is the leading “out of the box” Java framework. Spring addresses and offers simple solutions for most aspects of your Java/Java EE application development, and guides you to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.

    The release of Spring Framework 3 has ushered in many improvements and new features. Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition continues upon the bestselling success of the previous edition but focuses on the latest Spring 3 features for building enterprise Java applications. This book provides elementary to advanced code recipes to account for the following, found in the new Spring 3:

    • Spring fundamentals: Spring IoC container, Spring AOP/ AspectJ, and more
    • Spring enterprise: Spring Java EE integration, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, jBPM with Spring, Spring Remoting, messaging, transactions, scaling using Terracotta and GridGrain, and more.
    • Spring web: Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow 2, Spring Roo, other dynamic scripting, integration with popular Grails Framework (and Groovy), REST/web services, and more.

    This book guides you step by step through topics using complete and real-world code examples. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

    What you’ll learn

    • How to use the IoC container and the Spring application context to best effect.
    • Spring’s AOP support, both classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load-time weaving.
    • Simplifying data access with Spring (JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and managing transactions both programmatically and declaratively.
    • Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, email, batch, scheduling, and scripting languages.
    • Integrating legacy systems with Spring, building highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta Web Apps, and even creating cloud systems.
    • Building modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server.
    • Delivering web applications with Spring Web Flow, Spring MVC, Spring Portals, Struts, JSF, DWR, the Grails framework, and more.
    • Developing web services using Spring WS and REST; contract-last with XFire, and contract–first through Spring Web Services.
    • Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
    • How to secure applications using Spring Security.

    Who this book is for

    This book is for Java developers who would like to rapidly gain hands-on experience with Java/Java EE development using the Spring framework. If you are already a developer using Spring in your projects, you can also use this book as a reference—you’ll find the code examples very useful.

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction to Spring
    2. Advanced Spring IoC Container
    3. Spring AOP and AspectJ Support
    4. Scripting in Spring
    5. Spring Security
    6. Integrating Spring with Other Web Frameworks
    7. Spring Web Flow
    8. Spring @MVC
    9. Spring RESTSpring and Flex
    10. Grails
    11. Spring Roo
    12. Spring Testing
    13. Spring Portlet MVC Framework
    14. Data Access
    15. Transaction Management in Spring
    16. EJB, Spring Remoting, and Web Services
    17. Spring in the Enterprise
    18. Messaging
    19. Spring Integration
    20. Spring Batch
    21. Spring on the Grid
    22. jBPM and Spring
    23. OSGi and Spring