Abstract: The Spring Framework is the leading full-stack application framework for Java SE and Java EE. Spring delivers significant benefits for many projects, increasing development productivity and runtime performance while improving test coverage and application quality. This session will provide attendees an overview of the new features available in Spring 2.5. Specifically, this talk will highlight the simplified and extensible configuration support provided via configuration annotations and new XML configuration namespaces, new Java 6 support, updates to Spring AOP, improved JDBC and JPA support, annotation-driven web MVC controllers, the new annotation-based TestContext framework for unit and integration tests and more!

Presenter: Sam Brannen (As a result  of some travel problems David Syer stood in for Sam on the day)

Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Engineer at Interface21 where he serves as a member of the core development team for the Spring Framework. He has been developing Java applications since 1996 and enterprise applications since 1999. During this time, Sam has enjoyed designing complex software architectures and implementing custom software solutions with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server applications using Java (J2EE/JEE) and the Spring Framework.

Prior to joining Interface21, Sam gained experience building applications for customers in various business sectors ranging from e-commerce to banking, retail, automotive, and social communities. Sam has a degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA) and currently resides in central Europe.

Slides: IJTC_2007_Spring-2.5_sbr.ppt

Home: IJTC Agenda