Ryan Breidenbach
Great Lakes Software Symposium
Chicago · November 16 - 18, 2007
Co-author of Spring in Action
Ryan Breidenbach has been developing software for over eight years with a current focus on enterprise Java applications and agile development. He is the co-author of Spring in Action. When he is not home spending time with his family, he can occasionally be found honing his skills at the poker tables.
Presentations
Developing Applications Using in Spring 2.0
In 2006, Spring 2.0 was released and Spring became ubiquitous in the enterprise Java space. So if you haven't taken a peek at Spring yet, what are you waiting for?!? If the answer is “This session,” you have come to the right place. This session will familiarize you with the benefits Spring provides and why they have made the framework so successful. In addition, we will focus on the efforts that went into Spring 2.0 to make these benefits much more developer friendly. By the end of this session, you should have a grasp of how Spring 2.0 simplifies the utilization of Spring's core features such as bean wiring, AOP, and the simplification of using enterprise Java. If your head is not spinning too much.
Harnessing the Power of Maven
2006 appeared to be the year that Maven achieved the momentum it needed to overtake Ant as the build tool of choice for Java developers. A lot of that has to do with the vastly improved Maven 2. But it lot of it has to do with the simplicity, organization and power that Maven brings to projects. The session will bring developers new to Maven with everything it has to offer. This includes creating your very first Maven project, learning the significance of the POM file, how to let Maven and its repositories manage your dependencies, and how to let Maven report of the health of your own projects. And for the Ant users in the audience, you will get to see a side-by-side comparison of the two build tools' build philosophies.