Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Consultant with over 14 years' experience and co-founder of Swiftmind, a software consulting agency in Zurich, Switzerland. At Swiftmind Sam helps international clients achieve best practices in agile software development, architecture, design, implementation, and testing of enterprise Java applications using the Spring Framework and a plethora of open source technologies. In his consulting role, Sam most enjoys leading work shops, code reviews, coaching, and training clients.

Sam is a popular speaker at conferences on Java, Spring, and OSGi. He is also an active core committer for the Spring Framework, lead author of "Spring in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly, author of the Spring TestContext Framework, and was previously a core developer of SpringSource dm Server (a.k.a., Eclipse Virgo).

Over the years, Sam has helped clients build applications in various business sectors ranging from e-commerce to banking, retail, automotive, and social communities. When not in front of his computer, Sam enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Technology

SPEAKER: Sam Brannen   COMPANY: Swiftmind

As the leading full-stack application framework for Java SE and EE, the Spring Framework continues to deliver significant benefits to Java developers, increasing development productivity and runtime performance while improving test coverage and application quality.

In this talk, core Spring Framework committer Sam Brannen will provide attendees an overview of the new features in Spring 3.2.

Spring Framework 3.2 builds on several themes delivered in 3.1 with a continued focus on asynchronous MVC processing with Servlet 3.0, support for using @Autowired and @Value as meta-annotations, support for custom @Bean definition annotations, and early support for JCache 0.5. Regarding the internals, CGLIB 3.0 and ASM 4.0 have been inlined, and the framework is now built with Gradle and hosted on GitHub. For those interested in testing their Spring-based web applications, Spring 3.2 offers new support for loading WebApplicationContexts in the TestContext framework, and the formerly standalone Spring MVC Test project is now included in the spring-test module, allowing for first-class testing of Spring MVC applications.

LEVEL OF TALK: Intermediate
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Consultant with over 14 years' experience and co-founder of Swiftmind, a software consulting agency in Zurich, Switzerland. At Swiftmind Sam helps international clients achieve best practices in agile software development, architecture, design, implementation, and testing of enterprise Java applications using the Spring Framework and a plethora of open source technologies. In his consulting role, Sam most enjoys leading work shops, code reviews, coaching, and training clients.

Sam is a popular speaker at conferences on Java, Spring, and OSGi. He is also an active core committer for the Spring Framework, lead author of "Spring in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly, author of the Spring TestContext Framework, and was previously a core developer of SpringSource dm Server (a.k.a., Eclipse Virgo).

Over the years, Sam has helped clients build applications in various business sectors ranging from e-commerce to banking, retail, automotive, and social communities. When not in front of his computer, Sam enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

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