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Review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development

Thursday, May 28, 2009

I was approached by one of the editors at Packt Publishing about doing a review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development.  I obviously said yes, the title of this post *is* “Review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development”  :)  Plus, I really don’t have much experience with Spring Web Flow 2 (SWF2) and [...]

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Modular Java with OSGi and Spring

Saturday, March 28, 2009

I was lucky enough to be asked to preform a technical review of “Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring“.  It’s Craig Walls‘ next book and it’s being published by the Pragmatic Programmers.
Craig does a great job of making the case for modular Java development with OSGi.  He covers why we need to [...]

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Keith Donald Delivers Great Spring Web Products Talk…

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Last night the Spring Dallas User Group was lucky enough to convince Keith Donald to fly up and talk to us about the Spring Web products (Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Spring JavaScript, and Spring Faces). A large chunk of Keith’s talk was on annotation-based Spring MVC along with the Spring JavaScript product. [...]

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SpringFramework’s JavaConfig…

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I have to admit, I was very impressed with Ryan Breidenbach’s Spring JavaConfig talk tonight at the Spring Dallas User Group.  I don’t hide the fact that I’m a big fan of xml configuration, and very much against annotation-driven config.  However, I don’t think I have a problem with doing my bean wiring in Java.  [...]

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Who Likes Spring MVC?

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Who likes Spring MVC out there? Are you using annotation-driven Spring MVC with the 2.5 features? To me all the @RequestMapping annotations just make controller code harder to read. Call me crazy, but I’m out on annotations for doing my Spring configuration. I greatly prefer configuring my beans in common xml [...]

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Heading to The Spring Experience…

Monday, December 10, 2007

I’ll be heading to The Spring Experience tomorrow morning. I’m very excited for many reasons. One that can’t be understated, is the weather and location of TSE, Hollywood, Florida! It’s cold and wet here in Dallas this week (30s - 50s, with rain all week).
Attending this year’s TSE will make me 3 [...]

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