SpringSource and NL JUG are proud to present the Spring Seminar. Alef Arendsen, founder of Spring and principal consultant, will present on the Spring Portfolio and Joris Kuipers, senior consultant at SpringSource will present on the dm Server. The session will be held on the 8th of October and starts at 13:30.

Spring Portfolio: Current state and beyond
The Spring Framework 2.5 introduced comprehensive support for annotation-based configuration, along with full support for the Java 6 and Java EE 5 platforms. Now Spring is preparing for the Spring 3.0 release, introducing further annotation-based configuration options and unified expression language support. This presentation 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.

dm Server
If you're a Java web developer, you're certainly familiar with monolithic WAR deployments and library bloat, and you've probably thought numerous times, "There must be a better way." Well, there is! By building on the benefits of an OSGi runtime environment and combining the Spring and Spring-DM programming models, the SpringSource dm Server offers enterprise web developers exciting new opportunities. This session will focus on developing web applications in an OSGi environment and will include a discussion of the migration path from a standard Java EE WAR to a fully OSGi-enabled web application packaged as a Web Module within a PAR. We will begin with an overview of deployment and packaging options available on the Server and then take a closer look at each supported web deployment model from Standard WARs to Shared Libraries WARs, Shared Services WARs, and finally Web Modules. Attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of how to both develop and deploy next generation web applications on the dm Server. Registation for this event is now open.

SpringSource offers courses on the core Spring Framework, Spring Web Services, Apache Tomcat, web development technologies and more. Review the schedule for each of our individual courses below:

Core Spring (in Amsterdam September 30th and October 14th)
Core AOP (hosted in Amsterdam September 9 - 12)
Core Spring Web Services (hosted in Amsterdam November 18 & 19)
Rich Web (hosted in Amsterdam October 29 - 31)
Apache Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0 (hosted in Amsterdam October 21 - 24)
During the SpringSource Seminar, the following sessions will be presented;