Release Party For Spring In Action Second Edition Last Night August 16
We are lucky in Dallas to have several published technical authors in the area. One of the better authors, Craig Walls is very generous with his time by speaking at the Dallas Java Users Group and the Spring Users Group. Last night was the release of the second edition of his book, Spring In Action. His talk was very good covering some of the basic uses of The Spring Framework which is a very large framework.Craig did point something that I had not thought about before. Spring has a lot of subprojects to it which do a lot of things (Boilerplate code for JDBC and JMS, remoting, MVC framework, etc), but its core functionality is dependency injection and aspects (AOP). Then everything else is an extension of these two core functionality. That was a very eye opening statement. I very much enjoyed his talk last night as I did with his two session at the Dallas No Fluff Just Stuff symposium. I was lucky enough to win a free ecopy of his book. I look forward to reading it.