Craig Walls
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · May 30 - 31, 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.
Cujo.js: Rabid Application Development in Javascript
In modern applications, Javascript is increasingly prevalent both on the client-side and to some degree on the server-side. As we continue to crank out more Javascript code, we're finding that many of the same hard-lessons we learned in writing decoupled Java code are equally desirable in Javascript code. Without the benefit of dependency injection and AOP, both Java and Javascript code can quickly become an unnavigable and untestable mess.
Where frameworks like Spring have helped us gain control over our Java code, Cujo.js similarly aims to give our Javascript code more structure and testability.
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?