Spring Roo - News from Ken Rimple and Gordon Dickens

Chariot's Ken Rimple and Gordon Dickens are following in the path of several of our architects - they are becoming published authors. Both are working, along with Ben Alex, on a book for Manning, Spring Roo in Action.

Here is a video interview with them. They give a brief overview of Roo and discuss why they wanted to write the book.



(sorry for the link, but YouTube was giving me trouble with the embedding today.)

As they said in the video, you can get the early chapters of the book at:
http://www.manning.com/dickens. It may not have been clear in the video.

We will have more interviews with Ken and Gordon on Roo and Spring Integration. As you can tell, they are pretty passionate about the topic.

Gordon Dickens - Spring Roo Recap from Philly ETE

Coming to the end of the talks that need to be posted. I am hoping to make my self-imposed deadline of finishing up by the end of the weekend.

This latest one is by Chariot's own, Gordon Dickens. Gordon gave a talk on Spring Roo, a newer tool in the Spring Framework set.

Chariot TechCast #45 Transcript - Ben Alex on Roo

Chariot Solutions TechCast number 45
An interview with SpringSource’s Ben Alex on the SpringSource Roo project.

Disclosure: SpringSource is a Chariot partner

Transcription provided by Jo Middleditch (mconsult at msn.com)

[Ken Rimple] Welcome to the show. I’m Ken Rimple. This week we feature SpringSource’s Ben Alex. One of the founders of SpringSource, Ben created the widely adopted Spring security framework originally known as ACEGI. Ben’s current project is framework named Roo. Ben being from Australia, think of Roo as in “kanga”. Roo doesn’t use dynamic meta-programming to accelerate development. Instead it focuses on building applications in native Java using APIs like JPA and Spring MVC.

I caught up with Ben this week via Skype shortly after the American SpringOne 2GX Conference. Here’s the interview.

[Ken Rimple] All right. Well, Ben Alex, thank you so much for being on the Chariot TechCast.

[Ben Alex] Thank you very much Ken.

[Ken Rimple] So why don’t we start a little bit by talking about your background. Now, if I remember correctly you were the creator of Spring Security. And if I also remember correctly I think that started as an open-source project separate from Spring itself?

[Ben Alex] That’s fundamentally correct. Back in 2003, I started the ACEGI project, which later went on to become Spring Security. So for about seven years I’ve been working with Spring now. I was [one of the] founders of SpringSource. I was involved in the first commercial projects of SpringSource back in 2004 and I also set up the Australian operations of SpringSource. So I’ve trained about 500 people in Spring and these days I’m an engineer in SpringSource.