Also, Peter Cooper-Ellis blogged about the use of SpringSource Enterprise by important industry leaders like LinkedIn and Aetna. Be sure to download the new tools and try them out.

SpringSource is pleased to offer the new Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring course. The first presentation of this course, offered in Washington D.C. August 5 through August 8, will be presented by the Spring Web Team Lead, Keith Donald.

All courses are delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:

• USA and Canada
  • Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, Ottawa, Canada
  • Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, New York, NY
  • Core Spring: July 29th - August 1st, Seattle, WA
  • Core Spring: August 5th - 8th, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: August 5th - 7th, Washington, DC
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, San Francisco, CA
  • Core Spring: August 19th - 22nd, Raleigh, NC
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th, Toronto, Canada
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: September 3rd - 5th, New York, NY

• Europe & Middle East
  • Core Web Services: July 24th - 25th, London, UK
  • Core Spring .NET: July 30th - August 1st, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 26th - 29th, Athens, Greece
  • Core Spring: September 16th -19th - Hamburg, Germany (presented in German)

• Australia/Asia/Other
  • Core Spring: August 5th - 8th, Melbourne, Australia
  • Core Spring: September 9th - 12th, Sydney, Australia

... plus others

There are two Spring talks scheduled for OSCON 2008 in Portland Oregon - "Spring 2.5: Spring Without XML" bu Ken Sipe and "SimpleJDBC Development with Spring 2.5 and MySQL" by Thomas Risberg. See OSCON 2008 Java Sessions for more info.

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If you're a Java web developer, you're certainly familiar with monolithic WAR deployments and library bloat, and you've probably thought numerous times, "There must be a better way." Well, there is! By building on the benefits of an OSGi runtime environment and combining the Spring and Spring-DM programming models, the SpringSource Application Platform offers enterprise web developers exciting new opportunities. This session will focus on developing web applications in an OSGi environment and will include a discussion of the migration path from a standard Java EE WAR to a fully OSGi-enabled web application packaged as a Web Module within a PAR. We will begin with an overview of deployment and packaging options available on the Platform and then take a closer look at each supported web deployment model from Standard WARs to Shared Libraries WARs, Shared Services WARs, and finally Web Modules. Attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of how to both develop and deploy next generation web applications

Attend this webinar to get the latest update on development techniques that let you get the most out of the SpringSource Application Platform.

I'm pleased to announce that SpringSource will be presenting a special full-day seminar at the Bergschloessl Linz on September 8th, 2008.

The seminar agenda features a keynote as well as five one-hour sessions: including coverage of the SpringSource Application Platform (S2AP), rich web development with Spring, the upcoming Spring Framework 3.0, and Spring.NET. The speaker line-up includes SpringSource's CTO Adrian Colyer as well as SpringSource project leads Rob Harrop, Keith Donald, Christian Dupuis, Juergen Hoeller and Mark Pollack. The presentation language will be English; the overall event will be moderated in English as well as German.

The Bergschloessl Linz is close to the main train station and also easily accessible by car. The seminar is scheduled to start at 9:45 and to conclude at 18:00, allowing for convenient travelling to Linz. The admission fee is EUR 150, to be paid on arrival at the venue. Advance registration before August 11th is required: please send an email to Eva Hoeller (eva.hoeller AT springsource DOT com), stating your contact details as well as the number of seats that you would like to reserve for your company. Seating is limited, so register early!

See you there!

Juergen Hoeller
VP & Distinguished Engineer
SpringSource

Update: The agenda and a full description is now online at the SpringSource blog.

• USA and Canada
  • Core Spring: July 8th - 11th, Columbia, MD
  • Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, Ottawa, Canada
  • Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, New York, NY
  • Core Spring: July 29th - August 1st, Seattle, WA
  • Core Spring: August 5th - 8th, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: August 5th - 7th, Washington, DC
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, San Francisco, CA
  • Core Spring .NET: August 12th - 15th, Link coming soon!
  • Core Spring: August 19th - 22nd, Raleigh, NC
  • Core Web Services: Aug 26th - 27th, Link coming soon!
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th, Toronto, Canada
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: September 3rd - 5th, New York, NY
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th, Philadelphia, PA
    

• Europe & Middle East
  
  • Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, Munich, Germany
  • Core Web Services: July 24th - 25th, London, UK
  • Core Spring .NET: July 30th - August 1st, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 26th - 29th, Athens, Greece

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
  • Core Spring: July 8th - 11th - Hong Kong
  • Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, Singapore

... plus others

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Thanks to the Auckland Java Community for hosting this session. More details can be found here.