Atlanta Spring User Group's Inaugural Meeting!

Keith Donald will be ASUG's very first presenter! For those of you who did not have the pleasure of seeing his presentations at Devnexus, Keith is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring.

He is best known in the Spring community for creating Spring Web Flow. At SpringSource, Keith is the lead of the Web Application Development Products Team. His team, based in Melbourne, Florida, sustains the development of Spring MVC and Web Flow and their associated integrations, and is also responsible for future innovations in the domain of web application development frameworks.

Keith's blog can be found at https://blog.springsou... (https://blog.springsource.com/main/author/keithd/)
[Keith's full profile can be found at https://www.springsour... (https://www.springsource.com/people/kdonald)]

The meeting will begin at 6:30pm allowing members time to network, arrive and enjoy refreshments. At 7pm, ASUG will give an introductory presentation, and will be shortly followed at 7:15pm by Keith Donald's presentation. After Keith's presentation we will give away prizes that have been donated by our sponsors and then head downstairs to Aja for a happy hour mixer.

5/25/10's Topic: A Tour Through Spring 3

Join SpringSource co-founder Keith Donald for a demonstration of the latest Spring offers application developers. From the ground up, Keith will take attendees through the design and implementation of a realistic Java web application built with Spring 3. Attendees will not only learn key framework features, they will learn to apply those features effectively. Whether you are new to Spring, or someone who has used Spring before, this interactive session will help you grow as an application developer.

Technologies/topics covered: the Spring Framework, including MVC, Integration, Security, and Insight components, along with the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) & Roo productivity tools.