The Spring Architectures presentation gives an interesting overview of the different design strategies you can apply within the Spring context.
Eberhard Wolff has worked with Java since 1996, mainly in enterprise applications. He co-authored "Server Component Patterns" and "Java Persistenz Strategien" (German). He is also author of the first German book on Spring, which is also the first book to cover Spring 2.0. He regularly contributes to conferences like JAX, W-JAX, JAOO and writes articles for several journals. Eberhard is also a founding member of the Java Champions. Eberhard is also Regional Manager for SpringSource in Germany.
Transaction Choices— This talk illustrates Spring's support for various kinds of transactions: including native database transactions, ORM transactions and messaging transactions. The performance characteristics of each option will be contrasted with the corresponding transactional guarantees, highlighting the tradeoffs and their relevance in real-life scenarios.
Spring 2.5 on the Way to 3.0— This talk discusses Spring as a modern Java 5 oriented application framework - covering the core component model, integration with common technologies such as JPA and JSF, as well as Spring's annotation-driven web MVC.
Spring Web Services 1.0— Spring Web Services 1.0 provides a flexible, powerful Web services framework by facilitating best practices such as contract-first Web service development, the WS-I basic profile, and loose coupling between contract and implementation, allowing for the creation of flexible Web services using one of the many ways to manipulate XML payloads. By providing developers with a simpler approach to contract-first development, Spring-WS resolves many of the interoperability issues associated with typical Web services approaches.
Spring and Eclipse RCP— Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform is increasingly mainstream. Organizations from NASA to IBM to major banks and airlines have adopted RCP as a core platform for building their applications. In this talk we look at various current RCP usecases and examples and discuss the synergies with Spring.
Spring IDE - Tooling for the Spring Framework— Spring IDE provides support features within the Eclipse platform for Spring Framework development. It gives you useful tools to validate and visualize your bean definitions as well as support while editing Spring Bean defintions with content assist and much more.
