Spring & Messaging Webinars

There are a couple excellent webinars that I would like to highlight. All of these are available from springsource.com/webinars (click on the "developers" tab).

Spring Dependency Injection Styles

The first is a discussion about the different ways that are available to configure dependency injection in a Spring Container. The webinar covers three approaches: the traditional XML approach, Annotations and Java @Configuration.

http://www.springsource.com/webinar/spring-dependency-injection-styles


Message-Driven Architecture with Spring

The second webinar is a quick walk through of Spring Integration and the many new features found in the SI 2.0 release. It is a great way to learn about SI or just catch up on some of the new functionality available in the 2.0 release.

http://www.springsource.com/webinar/message-driven-architecture-spring


RabbitMQ: Messaging That Just Works

The third webinar is an introduction to the concepts and usage of RabbitMQ. For those who are not familiar with RabbitMQ, it is a messaging broker that speaks among others, the AMQP protocol. RabbitMQ has clients available in many different languages, including great Java / Spring support.

http://www.springsource.com/webinar/rabbitmq-messaging-just-works

More JavaFx Fun

Here is another JavaFx demo that I've been building. It is a simple implementation of John Conway's "Game of Life".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

The demo is a simple simulator, just click on the boxes to turn them "on" or "off". When you are ready, click on the "start" button to begin the simulation. You can increase the speed at which the simulation runs by moving the slider up and down. You can also step through the simulation by clicking the "Enter" or "Return" key.

Here are the links

Java WebStart: link
Java Applet: link

Here's a link to the source code, link.

Free Spring / Groovy Training Videos

Here are some links to a few nice Spring and Groovy training videos.

SpringSource Free Training Videos

http://www.springsource.com/training/freeonline

There are currently three videos.

Metaprogramming with Groovy by Jeff Brown
OSGi and Modular Applications by Joris Kuipers
Developing Aspects with AOP by Jeff Brown

Good stuff, check'em out!

Excellent Grails Posts

Just wanted to quickly point out this excellent series of posts by Peter Ledbrook detailing some of the gotchas when working with Grails & GORM. Veteran or neophyte this is a good read for any Grails developer.

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/06/23/gorm-gotchas-part-1/

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/07/02/gorm-gotchas-part-2/

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/07/28/gorm-gotchas-part-3/