Craig Walls
Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas
Dallas · November 4 - 6, 2005
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
At Your Service: Service-Oriented Spring
Where Spring promotes loose-coupling between your application objects, service-oriented architecture (SOA) encourages loose-coupling between applications that interact with each other.
Thinking Inside the Box: Building Spring-Enabled Portlet Applications
Windows changed everything. Back in the days of MS-DOS, you could only run one application at a time. Switching between writing a letter and balancing your checkbook involved closing a word processor and opening a spreadsheet. But now you can be running dozens of applications simultaneously, each inside its own window. And now switching from one
application to another may be as simple as a shift of your eye or a click of the mouse button.