SpringSource is proud to present the Spring Day in Brussel. The session will be held at the unique Brussels Marriott Hotel on the 14th of November and will start at 13.30 PM. During this Spring Day:

• Alef Arendsen, co-founder of Spring, will explain attendees the whereabouts of the Spring Portfolio.
  
• Joris Kuipers, SpringSource dm Server specialist, will inform attendees about the new SpringSource dm Server.

The session will end at 18:00 PM with a social get-together and free drink with Alef and Joris.

Alef Arendsen: Spring Portfolio, current state and beyond.
Alef Arendsen, co-founder of Spring, about his session:

"The Spring Framework 2.5 introduced comprehensive support for annotation-based configuration, along with full support for the Java 6 and Java EE 5 platforms. Now Spring is preparing for the Spring 3.0 release, introducing further annotation-based configuration options and unified expression language support. This presentation discusses Spring as a modern Java 5 oriented application framework - covering the core component model, integration with common technologies such as JPA and JSF, as well as Spring's annotation-driven web MVC."

Joris Kuipers: SpringSource dm Server.
Joris Kuipers, SpringSource dm Server specialist, about his session:

"If you're a Java web developer, you're certainly familiar with monolithic WAR deployments and library bloat, and you've probably thought numerous times, "There must be a better way." Well, there is! By building on the benefits of an OSGi runtime environment and combining the Spring and Spring-DM programming models, the SpringSource dm Server offers enterprise web developers exciting new opportunities. My session will focus on developing web applications in an OSGi environment and will include a discussion of the migration path from a standard Java EE WAR to a fully OSGi-enabled web application packaged as a Web Module within a PAR."

The session will start with an overview of deployment and packaging options available on the Platform and then take a closer look at each supported web deployment model from Standard WARs to Shared Libraries WARs, Shared Services WARs, and finally Web Modules. Attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of how to both develop and deploy next generation web applications on the S2AP.