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SpringSource, a division of VMware, will hold its fifth annual SpringOne 2GX developer conference in New Orleans from Oct. 19 to 22.
The event will host hundreds of developers “representing the community of more than 3 million users of SpringSource-inspired products” such as the Spring Framework, SpringSource said in a news release Oct. 15. SpringSource officials said the 2009 event will feature more than 80 presentations by speakers who are development leads or have created products or published materials on SpringSource technologies such as Spring, Groovy/Grails, Tomcat and Hyperic.
“Platinum sponsors include: VMware, Accenture, Adobe [Systems] and Microsoft; Gold sponsors [are] Blu Age, Alfresco and Terracotta; and Silver sponsors [are] Chariot Solutions, Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Rivet Logic, Skyway Software, [and] BIRTExchange by Actuate,” SpringSource said.
“Developers are using VMware and SpringSource solutions together to streamline Java application development and deployment,” Parag Patel, vice president of alliances at VMware, said in a Sept. 28 statement about SpringOne 2GX. “Together, our products provide a superior end-to-end platform for the whole applications life cycle-from building an application simply and rapidly, to running it with all the benefits of virtualization, to managing it for optimum performance and availability. We’re excited to sponsor SpringOne for the second year running because the event provides Spring developers with tools to simplify Java application development, from the desktop to the data center to the cloud.”
SpringOne 2GX will be the company’s first major public event since its acquisition by VMware in August. Rod Johnson, founder of Spring and general manager of SpringSource, will open the event on Oct. 19 with a keynote address.
Some of the key developer-focused sessions at the conference will include:
““??Ã What’s New in Spring 3.0 … The talk discusses Spring as a modern Java 5 oriented application framework.??Ã Spring DI Styles: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job … This talk is a hands-on tour of the new dependency injection features in Spring 3.0.??Ã Working With Spring Web Flow … This session dives deep into the features of the Web Flow 2 definition language and illustrates how to use it to create sophisticated controller modules.”“
SpringSource is a self-described “leader in Java application infrastructure and management,” and is one of the hottest names in the enterprise Java space. “Spring is the de facto standard programming model for enterprise Java applications and has been downloaded more than 6 million times. Apache Tomcat is the world’s most popular application server while Groovy is one of the most popular alternative languages for JVM [Java Virtual Machine]. Interest in Grails, a rapid Web application development framework based on Groovy and Spring adoption, is rapidly growing and Hyperic is the leading Web application performance monitoring and management software used by thousands of companies worldwide,” the company said in the Sept. 28 statement.
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SpringSource and the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium Series are co-producing the SpringOne 2GX Java event. “The four-day conference is an opportunity for application developers, solution architects, [and] Web operations and IT teams who develop, deploy and manage business applications to share insights on current development challenges and to showcase the latest advances in Spring and Groovy/Grails technologies,” SpringSource said Sept. 28.
“Our clients are continuing to explore the benefits of open source and we continue to be substantial users of open source, particularly in custom Java development,” Tony Roby, open source lead at Accenture, said in the September release. “Organizations are demanding that critical business systems using open-source technology [be] delivered with the same rigor and success as solutions built on proprietary alternatives.”
“We’ve seen tremendous customer demand for an integrated, enterprise solution combining the open-source Spring framework with the open-source Flex framework,” said Dave Gruber, group product marketing manager at Adobe. “SpringSource and Adobe have worked together to deliver a robust, scalable offering enabling Java developers to build and deploy cross-platform rich Internet applications.”
“We share SpringSource’s vision in making lives easier for developers and enabling simple access to services regardless of platform. At SpringOne 2GX Microsoft will demonstrate our joint open-source work with SpringSource for better interoperability,” Jean Paoli, general manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft, said in the same statement. “SpringSource is a well-regarded name within the developer community and we look forward to participating alongside the world-class developers that will be attending the New Orleans event.”
The SpringOne event will have several speakers both internal and external to SpringSource, including Johnson; “Javier Soltero, the founder of Hyperic and data center architect at SpringSource … Graeme Rocher, senior staff engineer and head of Grails development at SpringSource … and Guillaume Laforge, staff engineer and head of Groovy development at SpringSource.”
“In our continued quest to provide leadership in Java development, we felt it was important to also include in the conference sessions that investigate all of the challenges that face today’s developers, from desktop to data center and into the cloud,” Johnson said. “Our thought leadership, coupled with our experience in the run-time and management arena, makes SpringOne 2GX the ideal place for the technical community to obtain critical skills and knowledge to help them build, run and manage software solutions.”