Craig Walls
Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Reston · April 25 - 27, 2014
Author of 'Spring in Action' and 'Building Talking Apps'
Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 2 dogs.
Presentations
What's new in Spring?
It was over 10 years ago that Spring hit the scene and made a big impact in the enterprise Java development ecosystem. Now that Spring 4.2 is available (and Spring 5 on the way), there's a lot of new features and a lot that you may not know about yet.
Giving Spring some REST
In this presentation, we'll see how to use Spring to create, secure, streamline, hyperlink, and consume REST APIs.
Party Up Front, Business in the Back: Developing Rich Clients for Spring Server Apps
For over 10 years, Spring has been the go-to framework for developing powerful Java server applications. Increasingly, however, modern applications are placing heavier demands on the client side, expecting applications to be available anywhere, anytime, and on any device. In a client-rich world, where does Spring fit it?