Spring 2.5: Enhanced productivity and production + An introduction to Scala

Due to the results from a recent poll of members about JUG format, this meeting has been extended to be 2 sessions long. Future meetings are expected to follow the format of 2 sessions, with nibbles/drinks either during or in between sessions as an intermission.

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1st Speaker: Dr Paul Chapman, SpringSource, http://www.springsour...

Spring 2.5 continues its established theme of simplicity and power, offering a range of new capabilities that support developers building large, complex, mission-critical enterprise applications.

In this session, Paul will be exploring a subset of the new capabilities present in Spring 2.5, along with some of its sister products that have recently been released. Aimed at existing Spring users,

this session will introduce new capabilities including automated component scanning, expanded annotated metadata services, and the considerable advancement of convention over configuration in Spring's web framework.

Whilst these improvements considerably enhance the productivity of application developers and lower long-term maintenance cost, Spring 2.5 also significantly improves the production and runtime experience. Paul will demonstrate some of these production runtime enhancements, including OSGi bundle support and the new Spring Advanced Management Suite (AMS).

Paul's session will be intensely demonstration oriented, focusing on refactoring an existing Spring 2.0 application to leverage the new Spring 2.5 capabilities. As such, the session will clearly communicate how these improvements reduce the amount of both Java code and XML now required, plus provide solid guidance for attendees on how to approach upgrading their existing Spring 2.0 applications.

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2nd Speaker: Tony Stubbs, developer at IBM (http://stubbisms.word....

An introduction to Scala (http://www.scala-lang.... Tony will show and demonstrate the use of Scala.

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As usual drinks and nibbles will be provided, thanks to BEA.

Also as a special offer to the Auckland JUG members a 20% discount off training for the Wellington Spring courses in June, if they attend the presentation, in addition a special offer for JAOO conference tickets, 10% off, see http://jaoo.com.au/br....