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Rod Johnson, SpringSource

Rod Johnson

Rod is the father of Spring. The Spring Framework open source project began in February 2003, based on the Interface21 framework published with Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development.

Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker.

Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE. The sequel, J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development.

Rod has extensive experience as a consultant in a wide range of industries: principally, finance, media and insurance. He has specialized in server-side Java development since 1996. Prior to that, he worked mainly in C and C++. His experience as a consultant has led him to see problems from a client's perspective as well as a technology perspective, and has driven his influential criticism of bloated, inefficient, orthodox approaches to J2EE architecture, which have delivered very poor results for stakeholders.

Rod is the founder of the Spring Framework, which began from code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Along with Juergen Hoeller, he continues to lead the development of Spring.

He regularly speaks at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia, including the ServerSide Symposium (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006), JavaPolis (Europe's leading Java conference) in 2004 and 2005, JavaZone (2004 and 2005) and JAOO (2004). He was awarded a prize for giving one of the top 20 presentations (by evaluation) at JavaOne in 2005, and delivered keynotes at the JavaWorld conference in Tokyo, June, 2005, the JAX conference in Munich (October, 2005) and the Spring Experience conference in Bal Harbour, Florida, in December 2005.

Rod serves in the JCP on the Expert Groups defining the Servlet 2.4 and JDO 2.0 specifications. His status as a leader in the Java community has been recognized through his invitation to Sun's Java Champions program. Rod continues to be actively involved in client projects at Interface21, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.

Presentation: "Spring Portfolio New and Noteworthy"

Time: Tuesday 15:30 - 16:15

Location: Bayside 201

Abstract: The Spring Framework is the most popular application programming framework for development on the Java™ platform and the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE platform), with widespread adoption across many industries. Spring enables POJO-based development in any runtime environment while making it easy for developers to access advanced enterprise services. The current Spring 2.5 release, although backward-compatible, introduces significant new features and enhancements that make Spring more powerful and extensible yet simpler to use. If you’re a Spring user, you should understand these features and how they may benefit you; if you are not yet a Spring user, you may find Spring significantly more compelling than what you’re currently using. In this presentation, Rod Johnson, the father of Spring and CEO of SpringSource, discusses some of the key new features. He explains and demonstrates the following: • Annotation-based options for dependency injection: how you can configure Spring without XML if desired and how to mix and match annotation and XML configuration • The ability to make the Spring container scan the classpath for components and how to use and customize this important feature •• The @Component and other “stereotype” annotations and how you can use them to simplify your applications and extend the capabilities of Spring •• The significant improvements in the Spring Web MVC Controller model, taking advantage of annotations for URL mapping and parameter binding •• The overhaul of the Spring integration testing functionality, including support for JUnit 4 and TestNG. Johnson shows code examples throughout the presentation, empowering attendees to try these new features out for themselves.