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Day One Recap:

Attended a nice reception with beer and wine provided by the event sponsors. There were some nice cheeses and fruits and a whole mess of SpringSource employees wearing their yellow SpringSource shirts (I would like one). I got a great event t-shirt, an event binder and a USB drive with all the presentation material.

The venue, The Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans, LA is incredible. SpringSource/NFJS did a great job on getting an incredible hotel for the event.

Dinner was great. Salad, pasta, Cajun shrimp and jambalaya with a red velvet cupcake for dessert.

During the keynote, speaker Rod Johnson discussed where Spring has been and where Spring is headed. He stressed SpringSource’s goals of developer oriented simplicity and the support of the community. Rod then gave the floor to Spring project leads (Jeremey Grelle, Mark Fisher, Graeme Rocher and Jon Travis?) to demo Flex, Spring BlazeDS and Spring Integration, Grails with Spring Tools Suite and Spring Insight. Spring Insight looks incredible!

Over the weekend I received Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming. I am pretty excited about reviewing this book because I have been a fan of using AOP with Spring in the past because it can simplify code by extracting things like transaction management and logging into a config file (ie Spring context file), making the application logic more manageable and cleaner.

Hopefully I will be in New Orleans, LA for the SpringOne & 2GX Groovy/Grails Experience October 19th – October 22nd. I went to the 2GX Groovy/Grails Experience in 2008 and it was a great conference with great sessions. This time attendees will have the option to attend SpringOne sessions as well. 4 straight days of sessions; I will probably only sleep a couple hours a night! For more information check out www.springone2gx.com.

On March 31st, 2009 I discussed Spring’s dynamic language support with a focus on Groovy and JRuby at the Tampa JUG. There were quite a few people in attendance who were interested in leveraging the power and simplicity of Spring and Groovy. The presentation material can be found here and the demo Web application can be found here. Thanks to all who attended, the Tampa JUG’s sponsors GCA and Hudson and Vladimir Vivien.