Using Spring Security 2

Fri September 26 2008

Spring Security 2, the former Acegi Security System for Spring, is a comprehensive framework which helps you implement enterprise application security... read more

Spring Security 2, the former Acegi Security System for Spring, is a comprehensive framework which helps you implement enterprise application security requirements, like single sign-on, authorization checks and the use of several authentication technologies. This session presents not only the new features of Spring Security 2, but also shows some best practices and examples to get the most out of ... read more

Spring Security 2, the former Acegi Security System for Spring, is a comprehensive framework which helps you implement enterprise application security requirements, like single sign-on, authorization checks and the use of several authentication technologies. This session presents not only the new features of Spring Security 2, but also shows some best practices and examples to get the most out of it. Covered architectures will include web (2.0) applications, web services and client/server applications. read less

Seam in action - Part 2

Fri September 26 2008

After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent... read more

After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent alternative. Seam is an application framework for Java Enterprise Edition which introduces the notion of declarative, contextual application state management.In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programmin... read more

After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent alternative. Seam is an application framework for Java Enterprise Edition which introduces the notion of declarative, contextual application state management.In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programming model and its tight integration with other frameworks such as Hibernate, jBPM and RichFaces. In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the many competing frameworks, what it was like getting started with Seam, what its learning curve is like, and what their practical experiences with Seam has been on two commercial projects during the last year. read less

Seam in Action - Part 1

Fri September 26 2008

After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent... read more

After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent alternative. Seam is an application framework for Java Enterprise Edition which introduces the notion of declarative, contextual application state management.In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programmin... read more

After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent alternative. Seam is an application framework for Java Enterprise Edition which introduces the notion of declarative, contextual application state management.In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programming model and its tight integration with other frameworks such as Hibernate, jBPM and RichFaces. In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the many competing frameworks, what it was like getting started with Seam, what its learning curve is like, and what their practical experiences with Seam has been on two commercial projects during the last year. read less

Effective Java Reloaded

Tue September 16 2008

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The challenge of scalable languages

Tue September 16 2008

Today's software landscape resembles increasingly a tower of Babel: Systems are built using many different languages, combining server-side and client... read more

Today's software landscape resembles increasingly a tower of Babel: Systems are built using many different languages, combining server-side and client-side languages, scripting and systems programming languages, general and domain specific languages, all glued together with a hefty amount of XML. The advantage of this approach is that each individual language can be tailored to a specific applicat... read more

Today's software landscape resembles increasingly a tower of Babel: Systems are built using many different languages, combining server-side and client-side languages, scripting and systems programming languages, general and domain specific languages, all glued together with a hefty amount of XML. The advantage of this approach is that each individual language can be tailored to a specific application domain. Its disadvantage is that the necessary amount of cross-language glue can make applications cumbersome to write, deploy, and maintain. An alternative is offered by scalable languages, which can be used for many different applications, ranging from small scripts to very large systems. An important aspect of a scalable language is that it itself is extensible and malleable. It should be possible to define very high-level libraries in it, which act in effect as specialized domain specific languages. The advantages of this approach is that it leads to more regular system designs, gives better static checking, makes applications easier to deploy, and increases their reliability. In this talk I'll describe the design principles of the Scala programming language, which has scalability as its primary design objective. Scala combines lightweight syntax with strong static checking on a Java-compatible platform. It encourages the embedding of domain-specific languages as high-level libraries. I discuss how Scala affects systems design and discuss its suitability for large scale industrial deployment. read less