SpringOne – Day Two
Keynote – once again
The second day of SpringOne started with two keynote sessions – one by Adrien Coyler, CTO of Interface21, who was presenting the Spring Portfolio. He did it in a very funny way, showing a duck trying to do Spring WebServices Duck-Typing on a water-proof keyboard having a chicken as a telepathic assistant 
)) That was really cool and everybody will remember this. Adrian also mentioned Spring IDE, setting up Spring development centers in Vancouver, Canada, somewhere in Florida, and Southampton, UK. The second part of the Keynote was presented by Eric Evans, who had a talk about Domain-Driven Design model. The presentation was mainly devoted to discuss the challenge of escaping from the legacy systems into more maintainable solutions. The presented solution suggests building an anti-corruption (proxy) layer on top of existing software and introducing every new changes/functionalities on such a base. That was very interesting session, as these are problems probably all of us encountered while working in the IT business. Looks like Eric has much experience in that field, so hopefully his talk would be published on parleys.com and be easily accessible by all of you.
Sessions
Next sessions I went to were two very interesting ones about Spring and concurrency: “Messaging and concurrency with Spring” by Juergen Hoeller (one of the Spring Framework co-founders) and “Concurrency and Spring” by Rob Harrop (he’s a cool guy – I really like his presentations). At the last one: “Architecture with Spring” by Eberhard Wolff, there was a discussion about Spring applications using object oriented style in case of domain objects – surprisingly it is true! Not a big deal for me, but for purists that’s a really big matter.
Frites!
And at the very end we get SpringOne’s special pomme frites. Very good ones – a must in Belgium 
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