Bram Smeets Blog

It has been too long already, but it’s that time of year again

Upcoming Friday May 23 is another Java Meetup organized by Alef Arendsen in De Jaren in Amsterdam (Nieuwe Doelenstraat).
As always you can find more details (and a nice Google Maps picture) on Alef’s blog entry.

I hope to see you all there!

Greetings,
Bram

Finally, after a delay of about one and a half year, the book I co-authored was released last Friday!

This book, originally initiated by Steven Devijver and originally titled ‘Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional’, has been renamed to ‘Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications’. It is targeted at people that are relatively new to J2EE / Java EE and want to learn how to use Spring to build robust enterprise applications.

I am very much looking forward to your reviews. Personally I really like chapter 4 which goes into the details of Spring AOP and AspectJ support in Spring 2.0. I hope you have fun reading it!

I just presented my session entitled ‘Building web-based ‘fat clients’ using GWT’.
For those of you interested, you can download the slides and two sample applications that I used for the presentation.

SpringOne 2007 - Slides

SpringOne 2007 - Sudoku Application

SpringOne 2007 - Skeleton Application

Use the skeleton if you want to easily get start using GWT in combination with Spring.
Please note that you need to install GWT 1.4 to run these samples and setup your project correctly.
Most importantly, you need to add the GWT jars (except the benchmark one) to your classpath.

If you have any questions running the samples, feel free to contact me!
Hope this will help you get started using GWT.

Bram

I will be presenting a session on Building web-based ‘fat clients’ using GWT at SpringOne.
This session will provide a practical introduction on Google Web Toolkit (GWT), focusing on using GWT to build a rich UI for an existing Spring backend.

This is the conference you should attend if you are already using Spring and want to learn more or want to get a jumpstart into using Spring. It contains 42 sessions in 3 parallel tracks plus keynotes, all focusing on Spring and related products/projects. Speakers include Rod Johnson, Adrian Colyer and Eric Evans.

Register here.

Hope to see you all there!
Bram

It’s time again for another Amsterdam Java meetup.
Firday the 13th, yes this Friday……

As always, more details can be found on Alef’s blog.