Ben Hale

dm Server Team Core Developer

Ben Hale

Ben Hale is a senior software engineer with Springsource and a core developer on the SpringSource dm Server project. Ben specializes in middleware development with using technologies such as OSGi and Aspect Oriented Programming as well as directing the build and release processes for all products in the Spring and SpringSource portfolios.

His interests include middle-tier architecture and effective build and release management strategies.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Ben spent several years leading teams in architecture and development of large-scale enterprise management applications for the telecommunications industry.



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Ben Hale on Spring AOP
Ben Hale on Spring AOP
Thursday - September 13, 2007


Blog

Git Migration

Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Maven PAR Plugin 1.0.0.M1

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Shortly after the introduction of SpringSource dm Server (Application Platform at the time), Thorsten Maus created a Maven plugin for creating PAR files. This was a great community contribution and we even used it in the Getting Started Guide for more »

OSGi Test Stubs 1.0.0.M1

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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dm Server Repository Content via JMX

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009

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Spring Framework Maven Artifacts

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007

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Maven Artifacts

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Up to this point the Spring Portfolio Maven artifacts, especially the snapshots, were inconsitently created and scattered about in various locations. Over the past couple of weeks, we'more »
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Presentations

Spring Web Flow Jumpstart

Have you ever developed a web application with a long user action based on form input? Did you curse the Java community for their inability to address this very common application type? Well, attend this session about Spring Web Flow and you'll curse nomore »

The Spring Experience (in 90 minutes)

In this interactive session Ben walks you through the experience of building a simple Spring-powered application from the ground up.more »

AOP and JMX: A match made in heaven

You're winding down a project and you get that dreaded email from your project manager, "How hard would it be to add some performance monitoring to the system?" Well, after this session, you'll be able to respond, "No problem at all!" It turns out that more »

Spring 2.0: New and Noteworthy

Spring 2.0 has marked a major advance in the Spring Framework. While still maintaining backwards compatibility, this release adds quite a few new features.more »

Spring and Hibernate in the Middle Tier

To today's JEE developer, there are two indispensable tools for creating applications; Spring and Hibernate. Together these two frameworks comprise one of the most powerful and often used stacks in the industry. While it is possible to do amazing thingsmore »

Acegi Security: The security framework with the funny name

Security is one of the major requirements in modern day enterprise applications and yet it is also one of the weakest parts of most developers toolboxes. The problem is of course that security is HARD! It turns out that rather than reinventing the wheelmore »