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Josh Long

Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate, Author, Coder, SpringSource, a division of VMware

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Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate, an editor on the Java queue for InfoQ.com, and the lead author on several books, including Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition. Josh has spoken at many different industry conferences internationally including TheServerSide Java Symposium, SpringOne, OSCON, JavaZone, Devoxx, Java2Days and many others. When he’s not hacking on code for SpringSource, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called “smart” systems. He blogs at blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.

Sessions

10:40am Monday, 07/25/2011
Building Better Clients with Spring
Java: Client
 Location: B110-111
Tags: android, java, iphone, mobile_app_development, gwt, html5, flash, mobile_development, spring, thinclient, air
Josh Long (SpringSource, a division of VMware)
Average rating: **...
(2.00, 2 ratings)
Today's users expect their applications and data to follow them beyond the web-browser as they go mobile, watch TV, and work with their local operating system environment. In this talk, Josh Long introduces common ways to build these applications and how Spring can help simplify things both on the server side and client side. Read more.
4:20pm Tuesday, 07/26/2011
A Giant Hop Forward with Spring Roo
Java: Client
 Location: B110-111
Tags: java, programming, spring, spring_roo_mvc_web_transactions_database_mdd
Steve Mayzak (SpringSource, a division of VMware), Josh Long (SpringSource, a division of VMware)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
The Spring framework is the most ubiquitous Java framework today and the easiest way to solve many problems. At some point, however, developers start to feel Java applications just can't be any simpler because Java itself is not very simple. It is at this juncture that most people look for alternatives. For those, there is Spring Roo, the highly productive development framework for Spring users. Read more.