Northern Virginia Software Symposium

Apr 30 - May 2, 2010 - Reston, VA


Sheraton Reston
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA   20191
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What's new in Spring

In this session, I'll lead a guided tour through the latest that Spring has to offer. Whether you're a Spring veteran or a Spring newbie, there will be something new for nearly everyone.

It's been 8 years since Spring 1.0 was released. In that time it has gone from a modest open-source project to being a de facto standard Java application framework. Now, as Spring enters its 8th year, it continues its attack on Java complexity, packed with many new features such as:

  • First-class REST support
  • A new expression language
  • More options for annotation-driven bean wiring
  • Bean profiles
  • Declarative caching abstraction
  • Enhanced Java-based configuration
  • A new "c:" namespace
  • Unified property management
  • And much more

In this session, I'll lead a guided tour through the latest that Spring has to offer. Whether you're a Spring veteran or a Spring newbie, there will be something new for nearly everyone.


About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 3 dogs.

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