Spring OSGi

Do you seek to to improve the modularity of your enterprise applications? Do you wish you could deploy multiple concurrent versions of services and applications? Do you require operational control over the life cycle of key application components? Interested in building on a proven component technology? If so, Spring on OSGi could be just the thing for you.

In this session Adrian will first introduce OSGi and then focus on the new Spring support for building Spring applications that take advantage of the OSGi platform.

Adrian Colyer is the leader of the AspectJ open source project and a well-known industry expert on the topic of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). He is a co-author of the book "Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming in Eclipse with AspectJ and AJDT," and has also published numerous book chapters, articles and published papers. His short essay, "AOP without the buzzwords" has been described as "the best explanation of AOP, ever."

In 2004, Adrian was recognized as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for his contributions to the development and adoption of aspect-oriented programming in industry.

Adrian is a popular conference speaker and panelist at Java conferences and events around the world including the ServerSide Symposium, JavaPolis and JavaZone. He served on the Program Committee for the International Conference in Aspect Oriented Software Development for the 2004, 2005, and 2006 conferences, and was the first Industry Chair of the conference in 2002.

Adrian founded the AspectJ Development Tools project (AJDT) on Eclipse.org in 2003, a project that continues to lead the world in providing IDE support for AOP. As leader of the AspectJ project, Adrian has overseen several releases of the compiler and designed and implemented many of the AspectJ 5 language extensions to support Java 5 features such as generics and annotations. He is the author of the "AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook" available from the AspectJ website.

Prior to joining Interface21, Adrian gained over a decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM. Whilst there he built what he believes to be the best aspect-oriented development team in the industry at the time of his departure, and oversaw the introduction of aspect-oriented programming to many IBM development teams.

At Interface21, Adrian contributes to the Spring, AspectJ, and AJDT open source projects and provides education, training, and consultancy to clients working with Spring and AspectJ. He is also actively involved in writing and evangelism on these subjects

Costin Leau is an Interface21 consultant based in Romania. His interests include data access and aspect oriented programming. With significant development experience, Costin is currently working on the Spring JPA support project, Pitchfork (http://www.interface21.com/pitchfork), and has recently co-authored Interface21's public Hibernate training course.

The most active Spring forum contributor with over 2,300 posts, Costin is also involved as Project Lead for Spring Modules.