Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the agenda for The Spring Experience 2007 has been posted and that conference registration is now open.  We look forward to seeing you in Florida this December for our biggest and most exciting show yet.

The Spring Experience is the conference for the global Spring community.  This one-of-a-kind event is for application developers, solution architects, and project managers who develop business applications with Spring and the technologies Spring integrates with.

2007 will be our third year, and our biggest show yet.  This year's agenda features five concurrent tracks and over 60 technical sessions delivering new and exclusive Spring content.  The five tracks are:

1. Essential Spring
   Covers the latest version of the Spring Framework, its central concepts, and the unique Spring application development approach and toolset


2. Enterprise Integration
   Presents solutions to integration challenges facing teams developing large enterprise applications


3. Rich Web
   Focuses on web application development patterns and best practices, with a practical focus on developing beautiful user interfaces 
   


4. Application Architecture and Design
   Presents design approaches and architectural guidance for solving common problems faced when developing business applications on the Spring stack 
   


5. Emerging Tech
   Showcases bold, cutting-edge topics that offer a new perspective

Spring's ecosystem and community has grown significantly over the last year and continues to grow rapidly.  We are proud to have this year's Spring Experience showcasing that growth, featuring such new and exciting content as:

• A two-part workshop on applying Enterprise Integration Patterns to build event-driven architectures with Spring, lead by Mark Fisher.

• Holistic coverage for developers of batch processing applications, including the first ever series offered on Spring Batch, Spring's new batch processing framework.

• Sessions on high-availability architectures by Billy Newport, Distinguished Engineer at IBM.

• A view inside Oracle showing how the company is building out its next generation Application Server product on Spring and OSGi, by Hal Hildebrand.

• Comprehensive coverage for developers building web applications with Spring, from techniques to simplify CRUD action development, to Ajax integration guidelines, to best practices for conversational data access and UI component design.

• How Spring application developers can take advantage of Groovy and Grails, with Graeme Rocher, lead of the Grails project.

• The latest and greatest on Spring Portfolio products Spring Security, Spring Web Services, Spring Web Flow, Spring OSGi, Spring LDAP, and Spring.NET from the developers who created and sustain those products.

• A mini Portal Development workshop, by John Lewis, creator of Spring Portlet MVC.

• A must-see tour through the state-of-the-art in Spring application development tools, with Mik Kersten, of Eclipse, and Christian Dupuis, of Spring IDE.
  

Building on the success of our previous years, this year's show will take us back to the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, a five-star beach resort located in the greater Miami Beach area.  We are also pleased to be working with Jay Zimmerman, Director of NoFluffJustStuff Software Symposiums, for our third consecutive year.

We look forward to seeing you and your team at The Spring Experience 2007!