Keith Donald explains Spring without the buzzwords here.
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Neward on SOA hype
Ted Neward has a post on the SOA hype here.
As with all technologies it is important to evaluate and make an educated decision about wether to use it. In my daily work i se very few usages where SOA will be a valid choice. Defining open, interoperable services isn’t worth it if all you are looking for is remoting. If you need to make your service available to a multitude of platforms and clients it makes sense, but many try to do this believing that there might be multiple clients in the future. And of course there is also the question of what interfaces to define. As Neward points out, looking at SOA as just session beans with brackets is not enough.
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Spring Seminar with Rod Johnson
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.