Core AOP (Part I): Introduction to AOP

Finally, after my holidays and a week of work, I get around to writing down my impressions from the AOP course from SpringSource. In this course, we gained experience using Spring AOP and AspectJ, and learned the reason behind the choices to be made when adopting AOP. Furthermore, we learned how to use AOP for [...]

Core Spring Training: Highlights

Last week, I attended the Core Spring Training for the Spring Framework in Antwerp. Interface21 has been giving this course for 3 years now and have fine-tuned the material so that everything just falls into place for you. The instructor, Alef Arendsen, was one of the original creators of Spring, so it was good to [...]

Spring Web Flow and Acegi

Last night, I attended a workshop on Spring Web Flow and Acegi, presented by Marten Deinum of Conspect.
Spring Web Flow
Spring Web Flow (SWF) is a controller framework that allows you to define flows that span across multiple page hits, in a wizard-type fashion. Done declaratively in a structured xml configuration file, Spring Web Flow simplifies [...]