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Advanced Spring: What's New and What You Might Not Know About

Spring 1.2 is out–Spring 1.3 is right on the horizon. As a broad, user-driven project with a large community, the newest releases offer a wealth of new features to be taken advantage of. This session focuses on demonstrating the most important, and how you can start leveraging them in your projects immediately.

You'll learn how to use Spring's JMX support to add manageability to your apps. You'll see how to use Spring Web Flow to create robust web applications atop business process workflows. You'll learn about Spring Security (Acegi), Hibernate 3 integration, JDK 1.5 transactional annotations, and the latest core container and utility enhancements.


About Keith Donald

Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware. At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity. He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide.

Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.

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