The Spring Experience Wraps Up

Coming in I had some pretty high expectations for The Spring Experience (TSE) and it certainly didn't disapoint. The speakers were exceptional, the style of the conference (manageable audience size, variety of topic choices at any given time, and speaker accessibility) were great. Not to mention the Miami climate!

I'm sure I've missed several people posting on TSE, but I'll throw a few more below. In the meantime though, I wanted to report on something that I took away as quite important but haven't seen mentioned elsewhere:

During Rod Johnson's keynote on Friday he presented us with a list of "What you should be doing". There are probably worse things you could do for your career than listen to Rod.

(keep in mind that the topic of the keynote was Spring AOP/Aspect J)

A few to start with:
1. Develop a background in AOP.
2. Learn AspectJ pointcuts
3. Combine #1 and #2 by using Spring AOP with AspectJ pointcuts

Follow that up with the 2 more on AOP:
4. Look into design level assertions w/AspectJ to improve code quality.
5. Consider converting 'policy documents' to aspects

Finally, the catchall:
6. Look at: XML extensions, JMS, scoping, scripting, Spring MVC, remoting, WebFlow, Acegi security.

The promised additional links...
Jim Moore has been doing quite a bit of blogging on individual sessions in addition to a post on the presentation he gave. I wanted to make that one but like he said... he was up against some pretty tough competition.

Patrick Peralta

And many more here, of course.