Ben Hale - Biography - No Fluff Just Stuff

Ben Hale

Cloud Foundry Java Experience Engineer

Ben Hale leads Pivotal's efforts to constantly improve the Java experience on Cloud Foundry. Recently he has been working on the Cloud Foundry Java Buildpack with an eye to making it the best place to run Java applications, in the Cloud or otherwise.

Prior to working on Cloud Foundry, Ben worked on large-scale middleware management tools, tc Server, dm Server (OSGi), and Spring. If you go back far enough, he even worked on a network management and monitoring application, but will deny it when asked.

PRESENTATIONS

Acegi Security: The security framework with the funny name
AOP and JMX: A match made in heaven
Spring 2.0: New and Noteworthy
Spring and Hibernate in the Middle Tier
Spring Web Flow Jumpstart
The Spring Experience (in 90 minutes)