Jasig is honored to have Rod Johnson as one of its keynote speakers this year. For years, Rod Johnson has been the voice in the Java enterprise telling us that we can do better! One of the leading authorities on Java and Java EE development, he has led the way to a lighter, more productive development style with his Spring Framework. Spring has grown into an entire portfolio with products as varied as Spring LDAP, Spring Security (which has Jasig CAS integration!), Spring Batch and more. He also founded SpringSource which guides the development of the Spring products, as well as leads the industry. Rod has an impressive resume including a PhD from the University of Sydney, a successful company (SpringSource, now part of VMWare) and a number of influential books including Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) and J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller).
Just about every Jasig product today utilizes some Spring project. CAS builds on Spring LDAP, Spring Security, and Spring Framework. OpenRegistry, an incubating project, uses Spring Framework, Spring Security, and Spring Batch. uPortal uses Spring Framework and Spring LDAP. Outside of Jasig, projects such as Sakai and Kuali have actively used Spring.
A large number of institutions have adopted Spring as part of the toolset they use to develop applications. Members within the higher education community have even assisted with the development of Spring. Dmitriy Kopylenko from Rutgers University was an early Spring Framework committer. Eric Dalquist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison contributed the pooling functionality to Spring LDAP. Scott Battaglia maintains the CAS integration with Spring Security. John Lewis from Unicon (a Jasig Partner) contributed much to the Spring Portlet support, building on the initial work of Bill Thompson (formerly from Rutgers, now Princeton). I'm sure there are others that I've missed (feel free to leave a comment, and I'll update this page!).
With all this in mind, its obvious to see the importance of Spring, and thus Rod's vision to the future of application development in higher education. Join us on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 for Rod's talk about "Open Source, Cloud Computing, and the Future of Innovation." In addition to Rod's talk, there will be a number of other topics on open source and innovation, including an additional keynote from Justin Erenkrantz (President of the Apache Foundation) and numerous topics on Jasig and other open source projects.
For more information on the Jasig Spring 2010 Conference, check out the web site. You can also view the complete program and register. Its too late for the early-bird registration, but you're still getting quite the bargain at the regular conference price!
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