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Tomorrow some colleagues and me will be travelling to Antwerp, Belgium to attend this years Devoxx (formerly known as JavaPolis / Javoxx) conference. I really look forward to this as conferences are always a good change to sniff the latest news and currents as well as meeting a lot of fellow developers. Furthermore I will [...]

Adrian Colyer led the send day’s keynote centered about the Spring Source Application Platform. Unfortunately the duck that became famous last year could not be with him this year. Fortunately Rob Harrop – AP lead developer – replaced it quite well ;).
Adrian and Rob coined out the primary challanges of enterprise applications the standard has [...]

First da of SpringOne was really intresting. I saw a lot of good talks, either to earn new knowledge or ideas to share thoughts about or at least get a feeling that attitudes, ideas and programming habits I cultivate are very much state of the art.
After the session I enjoyed to talk to a few [...]

Alef Arendsen started by giving a short introduction into basic AOP concepts. After that he presented a sample project using Hibernate and JDBC data access together. He construted a business case where the Hibernate property of delaying actual data insert to the database until transaction commit. The solution to the problem would be to flush [...]

Rob Harrop and Shaun Smith gave an overview about Oracle Toplinks successor EclipseLink. They started by outlining the problems Rob faced when trying to integrate a JPA provider into SpringSource Application Platform. Shaun then gave a brief overview over EclipseLink which definately exceeds ToplinkEssentials functionality I have used before. It seems to abstract data access [...]

Thomas Risberg, Spring JDBC lead developer, held a talk about data access performance tuning using Spring. He focused on different things like optimizing JDBC statements, transaction manager and data source implementation choices and how you you can configure OR mappers properly.
Besides tuning the application Thomas mentioned a few optimization possibilities around your software. Getting to [...]

In the first part of Jürgen’s talk he summarized the main innovations of Spring 2.5. The release brought significant enhancements regarding stereotype annotation configuration of Spring components. He especially focused on the combination of annotation configuration and AspectJ load-time-weaving. He pointed out some nice examples on the use of @Configurable to transparently inject Spring beans [...]

We got up early this morning because we had no clue at all how to get to the conference center. After having breakfast with some of the SpringSource guys we somehow managed to get to the Metropolis. It was quite difficult as the only almost direct line from the hotel is so new, that isn’t [...]