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.
Blog
Constant Pain with Non-Constant Constants
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2011
This thought has crossed my mind before.more »Advanced Spock Techniques
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011
In recent years there have been a couple of tools that stand out when it comes to helping me be productive. One of those is the groovy test framework Spock. It is worthy of an introductory blog posmore »MongoDB Grails and Copying Collections
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2011
I currently find myself working on a project where Grails and MongoDB are the technology stack.more »JavaOne: Rocking the Gradle
Posted Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Presenting Rocking the Gradle at JavaOne tomorrow 12:30pm at the Parc 55.more »Throughput and High Velocity
Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Wow… has it really be 11 months since I’ve blogged. I had many ideas for blogs half written or half thought out… but last year was extremely busy. It’s a new year… and I’m back :) Let’s not focus on the past, let’s get right into imore »3 Core Principles from 1998
Posted Monday, February 22, 2010
I was off for the holidays which gave me some time to clean out the storage area. I ran across some notes from a conference I attended in 1998 and 3 core principles stood out that I thought I would share as we start this new year.Core Principles (as I more »Setting up Clojure 1.1.0 on Mac OSX
Posted Sunday, February 21, 2010
As part of the Lambda Lounge, established by Alex Miller (Thanks!!), we have started a group to study the SICmore »Reporting from SpeakerConf 2010
Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I was able to attend speakerconf 2010 this year in Aruba. It was an amazing gathering of talented leaders in the software development space. Each day of the conference started with several 15 – 30 minute talks lasting roughly 3 hourmore »IDEA 9, Gradle and Eating Your Own Dogfood
Posted Tuesday, January 5, 2010
After reading the comment on a post a few weeks ago regarding Intellij 9 and Gradle, I had to laugh. Having worked on open source projects for 15+ years and presenting at countless conferences and user groups, I have stated roughly the same comment coumore »Intellij 9 and Gradle
Posted Monday, December 14, 2009
One of the hidden gems of the Intellij 9 release is it's support for Gradle. Some of the information on the web is out of date and some features are not intuitive. This post will detail some of the nuances and follow it up with a wish list for the nexmore »More Trouble with Java and Apple
Posted Saturday, December 5, 2009
Well the latest update for Java from Apple came through recently. Destroying all in its pathmore »Syntax Highlighting on Blogspot
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009
I've been very interested in providing some syntax highlighting in my blog posts, which I've been slow in general getting out.more »Fixing Java on Mac Snow Leopard
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009
I have long documented some of the issues and differences for a Java developer on the Mac OS X. Most of that has been on Leopard, OS X 10.more »97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know
Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The book 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know put together by Barbee Davis is out, and worth picking up.more »If you can't be a good speaker, be a groovy speaker
Posted Monday, June 22, 2009
I will be speaking on groovy and grails at the up coming 2GX conference in New Orleans in October. If you are in the groovy space or you are just looking, you don't want to miss thismore »Personal Career Guiding Principals
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009
I have received a number of requests from team members and session attendees for career path guidance. Here is what I threw togethermore »BTrace and JStat
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009
I just finished a JavaOne presentation on Debugging your Production JVM. The killer part and climax of the presentation was on BTrace. BTrace just rockmore »Closure: I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
Posted Sunday, May 3, 2009
It is curious that my weakest subject in school was English, and that I struggle so much with the miss use of certain words. Words really do matter. As words are misused, it starts to become commonplace which through a domino effect results in the more »Speaking at JavaOne 2009
Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009
Speaking at JavaOne this year, on Debugging Your Production JVM. The session is on June 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM. This session will cover a number of great JVM tools for debugging and managing a run JVM, with a clear focus on BTracmore »Presentations
Debugging your Production JVM
So your server is having issues? memory? Connections?more »Architecture: Non-Functional Requirements
The agile focus of software development puts heavy focus on user requirements through user stories. However we can not lose sight of the non-functional requirements as well. The software could be written to the exact specification and desire of the usermore »Enterprise Security API library from OWASP
When it comes to cross cutting software concerns, we expect to have or build a common framework or utility to solve this problem. This concept is represented well in the Java world with the loj4j framework, which abstracts the concern of logging, where imore »Agile Velocity
The agile development process is all about early and often feedback. One aspect of feedback is how is the team doing..more »
Spock - The Logical Enterprise Testing Tool
Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the "best practices" of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. So combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans..more »Are You Mocking Me?
In the world of software development, mocking allows us to provide testing of object interaction without having an total production environment defined. In this space there are a number of great tools. This talk will initially walk through the concept omore »Glu-ing the last Mile
How does your team handle release weekend? Is it the whole weekend? Is everyone on call?more »Glu
One aspect of getting your continuous delivery pipeline right is the deployment pipeline. For "continuous" delivery you will need to have a way to automate the instantiation of the entire technology stack, as well as a quick and easy detection of what chmore »Web Security
As a web application developer, you want to just focus on the user stories producing business value for your company or clients. Increasingly however the world wide web is more like the wild web which is growing hostile environment for web applications. more »Continuous Delivery Best Practices
There is a new “movement” in software development circles called DevOps. It is about the automation of development best practices as well as the automation of the deployment pipeline. Answer this question, “How long does it take your organization or team more »Getting Agile Right!
Whether you are just getting started, or you’ve made an attempt and well… it could be better… a lot better, this session is for you. Ken has been working on Agile projects as a coach and mentor for a number of years. Come discover the common reasons teamsmore »MongoDB: Scaling Web Applications
practical experience with mongo more »Groovy Power Tools
groovy, testing, spock, gradle, geb, grailsmore »Cloud Development
Google charts S3 image services EC2 more »Exploring the Amazon
developing leveraging amazon services - s3 images, and storage - ec2 - oauthmore »Social Web Development
Connecting with: Facebook Amazon Google wallet PayPalmore »Gradle Plugin Development
Deep Dive into Plugin development...more »Comparing the Deployment Pipeline Tools
puppet vs. chef vs. glumore »Complexity of Complexity
Of all the non-functional requirements of software development, complexity receives the least attention and seems to be the most important from a long term standard point. This talk will look at some of forces that drive complexity at the code level and amore »Networks for Programmers
TCPdump TraceRouters latency, scale UDP vs. TCP more »OOP Principles
OOP principles...more »Intro to Kotlin
JetBrainsmore »Ken's NFJS Schedule
Books
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
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
- Introduction to Spring
- Advanced Spring IoC Container
- Spring AOP and AspectJ Support
- Scripting in Spring
- Spring Security
- Integrating Spring with Other Web Frameworks
- Spring Web Flow
- Spring @MVC
- Spring RESTSpring and Flex
- Grails
- Spring Roo
- Spring Testing
- Spring Portlet MVC Framework
- Data Access
- Transaction Management in Spring
- EJB, Spring Remoting, and Web Services
- Spring in the Enterprise
- Messaging
- Spring Integration
- Spring Batch
- Spring on the Grid
- jBPM and Spring
- OSGi and Spring
