Ramnivas Laddad
Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Reston · November 2 - 4, 2007
Author of AspectJ in Action
Ramnivas Laddad is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP and Spring. He is a Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry committer. Ramnivas is also the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative AOP applications to solve real-world problems. He has spoken at many leading industry events including JavaOne, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, and O'Reilly OSCON. In recent years, Ramnivas has become a Scala fan. Ramnivas lives in the Silicon Valley.
Presentations
Enterprise Applications with Spring: Part 1
This session (part 1 of the two-part session) shows the core concepts in the Spring Framework – the most popular lightweight container that recently crossed 1 million downloads.
Enterprise Applications with Spring: Part 2
This session (the second part of the 2-part session) will cover advanced concepts in the Spring framework. While the core concepts in the first session will get you started with Spring, the advanced concepts in this session will make you effective at developing Spring-based applications.
AspectJ for Spring Developers
If you are keeping up-to-date with all the cool features in Spring 2.0, you have surely heard about much improved integration with AspectJ. AspectJ is for real. Come to this session to understand the core concepts of this wonderful technology and how to use it to create even simpler Spring-based applications.
Leveraging annotations with AOP
Specifying metadata using annotations has gained huge popularity since its introduction in Java 5. However, the story on consuming annotations isn't as clear. Reading and processing annotation is still a complex process often requiring you to understand byte-code manipulation tools and their low-level API. As a result, most developers shy away from using custom annotations, limiting their usages of annotations only those prescribed by frameworks. The result is missed opportunities for programming simplification. In this session, we explore how AOP can make it a simple task to consume annotation in a powerful manner.