In this episode, I demonstrate how to build Flex applications that connect to a Spring back-end using the new Spring / BlazeDS Integration project.

If you are interested in this integration, make sure you check out the Spring / BlazeDS Integration page on the

In this presentation, Russ gives an introduction and live demonstration (Blue Peter style) of Spring.NET. First Russ outlines the main purpose of Spring.NET, which is to “provide comprehensive infrastructural support for developing enterprise .NET applications”. The point is that Spring focuses on ha...

Russ Miles, SpringSource senior consultant and author of Head First Software Development, talks through some of the best practices that Spring for .NET helps open source .NET developers to apply.

The talk starts with a brief description of dependency injection and why it is required for a ...

Dave explored the boundary between what is classified as a batch and what is not and shows that it can be blurred for business or technical reasons.

Offline processing is a feature of almost all IT projects of any size. Often there is a natural business reason to group items for processin...

Using Spring with OSGi is a revolution in the application server environment. Spring gives you flexibility, OSGi gives you dynamicity, but complexity can give you a headache! This talk, led by Dave Savage, will review the current technology landscape, explore how you can turn a standalone app in to a...

Rick talks about the new weapons provided by Spring 3.0 for the war on Java complexity. After a brief recap of Spring 2.5, we get introduced to our first weapon: Spring 3.0 is totally embracing Java 5. It requires at least Java 5, the code base is generified and lots of cruft is removed by making use...

The talk starts with a brief description of dependency injection and why it is required for a better configuration. Then, Russ gives some examples of pain points with traditional development approaches and how Spring .NET provides solutions for these problems. As Russ explains, Spring reduces the amo...

With the Spring Framework 3.0 release, we are introducing further annotation-based configuration Options, unified expression language support and comprehensive REST support. This talk discusses Spring as a modern Java 5 oriented application framework: covering the core component model, annotation-dri...

"For years, we've created great technology. Today we're creating more than ever. We're proud that we've helped to drive the transformation of enterprise Java from the misery of EJB 1.x and 2.x to agile development with POJOs. We've delivered billions of dollars of value to enterprise customers and we...

"Vendors such as SpringSource, Paremus, and ProSyst go one crucial step further. Building a server platform on OSGi can only get you so far. What if you actually want to take advantage of OSGi for building your own applications? For this you need an OSGi technology-based programming and deployment mo...

Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future...

In this presentation Craig walks through the process of developing Spring appgs. Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 13 y...