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Spring emerged as an application framework and can be considered as de-facto standard in the area of light-weight Java EE application development. Still there is one concern people constantly bring up: The XML bean definition files can get quite complex and error-prone during development. This problem has been greatly addressed with the new Spring 2.0 XML Schema-based configuration, but still there is room for improvement regarding tooling support to make Spring development even more agile.

Spring IDE provides support features within the Eclipse platform for Spring Framework development. It gives you useful tools to validate and visualize your bean definitions as well as support while editing Spring Bean defintions with content assist and much more.

Version 2.0 of Spring IDE will provide long-awaited features such as support for Spring 2.0 namespace-based configuration files, support for Spring AOP including @AspectJ-style aspects and - due to overwhelming community feedback - tools for Spring Web Flow development. Furthermore lots of detailed improvements have been incorporated in latest releases.

This session will introduce the new features of Spring IDE 2.0 and will give you an update of Spring IDE's roadmap.

The Java Persistence API (JPA) is fast becoming the popular choice for object-relational persistence not only in Java EE environments but also in enterprise applications that make use of other technologies, such as Spring. Since the JPA standard has taken hold, the developer base has gotten more experienced with the persistence model, and the questions that arise are now more of an intermediate or advanced nature.

In this talk we will introduce a few of the common features and use them as a platform on which we can discuss some of the higher order JPA topics. As part of this discussion we will show how to use multiple persistence units, define and tune identifier generators, create and invoke native queries, and use XML mapping files for overriding annotation metadata. We will also show how JPA can be used in Java SE and Spring environments.

While attendees that have some experience using JPA will profit from this talk, even those who are interested in JPA, but who have not yet started writing applications with it, could also enjoy it. Some kind of experience with Java persistence would be beneficial, though.

Many applications within the enterprise domain require bulk processing to perform business operations in mission critical environments. These business operations include automated, complex processing of large volumes of information that is most efficiently processed without user interaction. These operations typically include time based events (e.g. month-end notices or correspondence), periodic application of complex business rules processed repetitively across very large data sets (e.g. insurance benefit determination or rate adjustments), or the integration of information that is received from internal and external systems that typically requires formatting, validating and processing in a transactional manner into the system of record.

Spring Batch is the only comprehensive lightweight batch framework designed to enable batch development for enterprise systems of varying complexity. Simple as well as complex, high-volume batch jobs can leverage this framework in a highly scalable manner.

The Spring Framework is the most popular application programming framework for Java/Java EE development, with widespread usage across many industries. Spring is an open source product, published under the Apache Software License. Spring enables POJO-based development, while making it easy for developers to access advanced enterprise services. This session focuses on how to use, configure, and extend the batch framework utilizing familiar Spring patterns such as Dependency Injection and Inversion Of Control. General batch concepts such as logging/tracing, transaction management, statistics, restart, skip, resource management and job partitioning will also be covered to demonstrate the capabilities of Spring Batch. Optimization techniques enabling the batch framework to run extremely high-volume batch jobs will also be discussed, including execution within a Java EE container. The speakers will also address the misconception that Java is not appropriate for developing high-volume batch applications.

The session is intended for architects, developers and performance testers of batch applications interested in understanding how the Spring Batch framework allows batch application developers to focus on the business aspects of batch jobs in a highly scalable enterprise environment.

The Java Persistence API (JPA) is fast becoming the popular choice for object-relational persistence not only in Java EE environments but also in enterprise applications that make use of other technologies, such as Spring. Since the JPA standard has taken hold, the developer base has gotten more experienced with the persistence model, and the questions that arise are now more of an intermediate or advanced nature.

In this talk we will introduce a few of the common features and use them as a platform on which we can discuss some of the higher order JPA topics. As part of this discussion we will show how to use multiple persistence units, define and tune identifier generators, create and invoke native queries, and use XML mapping files for overriding annotation metadata. We will also show how JPA can be used in Java SE and Spring environments.

While attendees that have some experience using JPA will profit from this talk, even those who are interested in JPA, but who have not yet started writing applications with it, could also enjoy it. Some kind of experience with Java persistence would be beneficial, though.