Alef Arendsen on using Spring 2.5 with Java EE 5

Earlier this week, I attended the Pulse event organised by USG Innotiv. It was a very nice evening,
and I liked it very much. If your not familiar with Pulse, the evening consists
out of a nice dinner and 4 parallel talks (of which you get to choose one to
attend) about Java, .Net, mainframe and SAP.

I always go for Java, as, out of these four, it is the only relevant topic for
Zeropoint.IT. This time, an impressive
personality was invited as a speaker: Alef
Arendsen, a prominent Spring
developer and principal consultant at SpringSource.

The session focused on the Spring 2.5 integration for working in a Java EE
5 environment. Support for components of the Java EE 5 specification were
discussed, as well as things like the common annotations from JSR-250 and using
JNDI. In addition to the various possibilities for integration, the 90 minute
session also included an overview of the similarities and differences between
the Spring component model and the EJB 3.0 specification, as well as the
options available for combining them.

Very interesting, both for me personally, as for our largest development team, which is currently
in the middle of a multiple man-year enterprise project in Spring 2.5.

Generally, the whole Pulse event
was very well organised and very interesting. Definitely going again next time!