Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform is increasingly mainstream. Organizations from NASA to IBM to major banks and airlines have adopted RCP as a core platform for building their applications. In this talk we look at various current RCP usecases and examples and discuss the synergies with Spring.
Eclipse still has even more to offer in the application space. Eclipse's
inherent dynamism and the use of Eclipse on the server are largely hidden gems. Spring has its heritage on the server and has enjoyed some use as a rich client platform. In this talk we look at various current RCP usecases and examples, and discuss the evolution and integration opportunities of these technologies.
Martin Lippert is a consultant and coach at akquinet agile GmbH, a company located in Germany that is focused on agile software development. He received a master degree in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg and worked as intern as part of the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC
back in '99. While he helps teams become more agile he also authors articles on rich client and server-side development with Eclipse and Eclipse runtime technology. He is involved as a committer in the Equinox
Incubator project.
Martin is a frequent conference speaker including The Spring Experience 2006 as well as EclipseCon 2007 where he gave a tutorial on Spring and OSGi.
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Spring IDE - Tooling for the Spring Framework— Spring IDE provides support features within the Eclipse platform for Spring Framework development. It gives you useful tools to validate and visualize your bean definitions as well as support while editing Spring Bean defintions with content assist and much more.
Spring Batch— Spring Batch is the only comprehensive lightweight batch framework designed to enable batch development for enterprise systems of varying complexity. Simple as well as complex, high-volume batch jobs can leverage this framework in a highly scalable manner.
Spring.NET - An update— This session will give an update on recent developments in Spring.NET covering messaging, interop, WinForms, .NET 3.0, and AJAX integration. An overview of features not found in Spring Java, such as the Spring Expression language and its integration into the container, will also be presented.
Spring is Swinging— Java is back on the desktop! We need to deliver high-quality, good-looking, multi-tier swing applications to our customers. How can Spring help us to achieve this at minimal cost?
