Excellent seminar. If you ever have the chance to attend one you should. Rod is an excellent speaker and he really knows how to express his ideas in a good way. Presentation is important, not just the message. 🙂
I have played a bit around with Spring lately, but of interest as well as for our current project. Only using some parts of it, but that’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to buy the whole package. You just pick the pieces that suits you right now. That was also a question from the audience during the seminar; which part of Spring to start with. Johnson recommended the IoC parts, as well as maybe the JDBC/Hibernate/iBatis template stuff.
I was a bit sceptical that it would be too much overview stuff, and basic explanations but it turned out to suit me perfectly. Some would probably have problems with grokking everything if they’re not updated on AOP, IoC, ORM and technologies like EJB. But for me it was just perfect. 🙂
Alright. It has been a good day. I’ll pick up some of the ideas and experiences from the seminar later.
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FYI
The two presentations both Rod and Juergen gave during the JavaPolis University and Conference days, can be viewed from http://www.javapolis.com.
Also last year Rod gave a one hour talk on Spring AOP which was also recorded and can be viewed @ http://www.bejug.org
Enjoy !!
-Stephan
I’ve seen the JavaPolis one, but I’ll check out the BeJUG one too.
The seminar I attended was a bit different though. You get a lot more in on a 7 hour seminar than on a 1 hour talk. 🙂