Spring conference in Paris, part 1

[Updated on 2009/01/09] Videos are available here.

Just got back from the Rencontres Spring. Here's the transcript of Peter Cooper-Ellis' presentation. He's Senior VP Products at SpringSource and a co-founder of the company.

Additional transcripts to follow (Mark Thomas on Tomcat tuning and Juergen Hoeller on Spring 3.0)

Solve the complexity crisis

• Provide “weapons for the war on complexity” (Rod Johnson)
  
  • power through simplicity
  • flexible, not monolithic
  • continuity, current & future
• Improve application quality and staff productivity
• Deliver excellence through open source & standards
• Lead technically within the Spring Framework, Apache
  Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation and Java Community Process

Develop, Deploy, Support

• Develop
• SpringSource Tool Suite
  
• Spring community project
  
• Spring programming model
  
• Groovy on Grails (SpringSource just acquired G2One, the company behind Groovy and Grails).
  
• Deploy
• SpringSource Enterprise
  
• SpringSource ERS
  
• SpringSource dmServer
  
• Performance packs
  
• Support
  
• SpringSource Application Management Suite (AMS)
  
• Development & production subscriptions
  
• Consulting & Training
  

Programming Model Roadmap

• Q4 CY08
• Spring .NET 1.2 : quick start template, ASP .NET MVC
  
• Spring Integration 1.0 (“pratical approach to an enterprise service bus”)
  
  • routing & transformation of messages
    
  • Asynchronous, loosely-coupled components
    
  • Configuration
    
• Q1 CY09
  
• Spring 3.0
  
  • REST
    
  • Java 5
    
  • Expression Language
    
• Spring DM 1.2
  
• Spring IDE 2.5
• Groovy 1.6
• Grails 1.1
  
• Q2 CY09
  
• Spring DM 2.0 : blueprint service
  
• Spring Batch 2.0
  
  • Java 5 and Spring 3
    
  • Non-sequential execution
    
  • Scalability
    
  • Configuration : annotations & namespaces
    
• Spring ROO : “dynamic language”
  
  • Convention over configuration
    
  • Rapid application development
    
  • DDD
    
• Spring Security 2.5
  
  • Documentation upgrade
    
• Spring Web
  
  • Flex
    
  • Dev kit : scaffolding & patterns
    
  • Declarative validation
    

SpringSource Enterprise

• Complete portability over runtime environments
  
• Package of open-source applications and commercials add-ons
  (monitoring, performance, ...)
  
• SpringSource Tool Suite : Spring IDE + Eclipse Mylyn + integrated SpringSource Knowledge Base
  
• SpringSource Application Management Suite
  
  • Monitor production deployments of Spring applications
    
    • Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, Jboss
      
  • Track application performance, utilization & resource control
    
    • Monitor servers, application contexts & bean factories
      
  • Define critical application alerts with automated corrective controls
    
  • Control and record changes
• SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database
  
  • Oracle RAC fast connection failover
    
  • Oracle Streams advanced queuing

SpringSource dmServer

• Next-gen, completely module-based application server
  
• Runs on the SpringSource dm Kernel
  
• Harnesses the power of Spring, Tomcat & OSGi
  
• Roadmap
  
  • Sep 08 : dmServer 1.0
    
  • Q2 CY09 : dmServer "Jersey"
    
    • Distributed management
      
    • Management architecture
      
    • Compatibility with Tomcat & Spring
      
  • Q3 CY09 : dmServer "Orkney"
    
    • Servic Fabric
      
    • Dynamic load balancing
    • Dynamic provisioning
      
    • Payload aware routing
      
    • Management
      
      • rolling upgrade of applications
        
      • rolling upgrade of servers
        
      • record & playback script of console session