Why do I recommend the Spring Framework to my customers

Is Spring the new legacy as quite a few people tell you on their blogs? I disagree on many levels. Throughout this session I will holistically detail on many levels without any polemics why I do recommend using the Spring Framework and it's ecosystem. Aspects that will be covered include: operational impacts, ecosystem, coding and road maps.

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1. Why do I recommend the Spring Framework to my customers ?
2. Michael Plöd Partner and Principal Architect at Senacor Technologies AG Author Java Magazin @bitboss http://speakerdeck.com/mploed
3. 100% independent
4. 2005 Java EE Developer Spring Developer
5. 2012 Java EE Developer Spring Developer
6. Java EE vs Spring
7. Java EE with or without Spring !
8. You‘ll get your projects delivered with both stacks
9. I will discuss the topic on an architectural decision-maker level
10. Myths and Legends
11. Spring is an XML Hell
12. 0lines of XML for a Spring based Web Application
13. Spring is complex
14. You don‘t need the force to use Spring!
15. Spring has too many dependencies and makes WAR Files huge
16. Is this your runtime environment?
17. Spring is proprietary and not portable
18. Who has ported a usual JEE enterprise application as a drop-in?
19. A holistic examination is important
20. Ops Road-Map Code
21. Operational Aspects
22. Infrastructure
23. Infrastructure App Server Servlet Container Operations Team
24. Update Volume App Server Servlet Container Server Runtime Libraries like CDI, Servlet, JPA, JSF, ... Eventually JVM A lot of planning and testing is required Integration in Monitoring ...
25. Project Libs
26. Project Libs Hibernate ... Spring Development Team
27. Update Volume Hibernate ... Spring Dedicated, only single Libraries Ad Hoc Reduced test effort
28. Roundtrips Hibernate ... Spring App Server Servlet Container 2-4 Months 2-3 Years
29. DEV OPS
30. DEV OPS vs ?
31. With Spring I achieve an increased flexibility by loosely coupling the infrastructure to the runtime
32. Coding
33. ? Are Dependency Injection and Testing game changers
34. Free your mind: we are in 2012 and not in 2005 anymore
35. Dependency Injection and Testing are commodity
36. More important is the overall ecosystem
37. Spring builds upon Java EE Scheduling MVC REST JMX Testing Caching Profiles DI AOP TX JMS AOP JDBC ORM OXM Expression JSR-250 JSR-330 JTA JDBC 4.1 JPA 2.0 JSF 2.0 JSR-303 JMX 1.0
38. WebServices AMQP Roo Security OAuth Data JPA MongoDB Neo4j GemFire HBase Redis JDBC Splunk Querydsl HDFS MapReduce Hive Pig Cascading SI/Batch Social Twitter LinkedIn Facebook WebFlow Scheduling MVC REST JMX Testing Caching Profiles DI AOP TX JMS AOP JDBC ORM OXM Expression Batch Integration Mobile
39. Spring Data by example Data JPA MongoDB Neo4j GemFire HBase Redis JDBC Splunk Querydsl HDFS MapReduce Hive Pig Cascading SI/Batch
40. JPA 2 Query ... public class PersonDAO ... { private EntityManager em; public List<Person> findByFirstname(String firstname) { Query q = em.createQuery(“from Person p where p.firstname = :name “) .setParameter(“name“, firstname) return q.getResultList(); } }
41. JPA 2 Query ... public class PersonDAO ... { private EntityManager em; public List<Person> findByFirstname(String firstname) { Query q = em.createQuery(“from Person p where p.firstname = :name “) .setParameter(“name“, firstname) return q.getResultList(); } } You end up writing many simple queries
42. Spring Data @Repository public interface PersonRepository extends JpaRepository<Person, Long> { List<Kunde> findByFirstname(String firstname); }
43. Spring Data with QueryDSL @Repository public interface PersonRepository extends JpaRepository<Person, Long>, QueryDslPredicateExecutor<Person> { List<Kunde> findByFirstname(String firstname); } QPerson P = QPerson.person; BooleanExpression hasBirthday = p.birthday.eq(...); BooleanExpression livesInLinz = p.adress.city.eq("Linz"); Person result = personRepository.findAll(hasBirthday.and(livesInLinz));
44. Spring Data also adresses NoSQL, Big Data and Data Grids Data JPA MongoDB Neo4j GemFire HBase Redis JDBC Splunk Querydsl HDFS MapReduce Hive Pig Cascading SI/Batch
45. Where are the Java EE Answers to NoSQL, Mobile, Social, ...?
46. Keep in mind App Server Servlet Container Server Runtime Libraries like CDI, Servlet, JPA, JSF, ... Eventuell JVM A lot of planning and testing is required ! Ususal Roundtrip is 2-3 years !
47. Spring offers a consistent programming model and many helpful abstractions and utilities besides the basics
48. Road-Maps
49. Java EE 6 12 / 2009 Mid 2011 12 / 2010 01 / 2012 02 / 2012 12 / 2009 Final Spec Release (GlassFish, no support) 12 / 2010 JBoss 6 (Web Profile, no support) Mid 2011 WebSphere 8 01 / 2012 WebLogic 12c 02 / 2012 JBoss 7.1
50. !The Java EE venors took 1,5 years for the first fully professionally supported container
51. Java EE 7: 3,5 years later 12 / 2009 Final Spec Release JEE 6 Q2 / 2013 Final Spec Release JEE 7
52. News around Java EE 7 Cloud Plattform will be delayed to Java EE 8 Social API is on a halt JCache won‘t make it in Java EE 7
53. What is left?
54. JAX-WS 2.0 CDI 1.1 JMS 2.0 after 11 years JPA 2.1 Servlet 3.1 JSF 2.2 .... Java EE 7
55. 12 / 2009 Spring 3.0 12 / 2011 Spring 3.1 12 / 2012 Spring 3.2 Spring since 2009 12 / 2009 12 / 2011 End 2012 Full professional support Available on all containers right away
56. Some math Java EE API Release 12 / 2009 0 months Server Mid 2011 18 months Available in organisations Mid 2013 18 + 24 months API is available in production API is available in production 42 months 3,5 years
57. The same math Spring 3.0 API Release 12 / 2009 0 months Available in organisations 3 / 2010 3 months API is available in production API is available in production 3 months
58. Spring offers an innovative and reliable Road-Map with immediate availability and support
59. Ops Road-Map Code
60. Thank you! Photos / Graphics (c) Michael Plöd / Senacor Technologies AG Exceptions: Photos on Slides 2, 9 (c) Matthias Heyde; Photo on Slide 34 is licensed from istockphoto Pointy Font licensed from Bitfoundry Senacor is hiring Software Developers and -Architects michael.ploed@senacor.com @bitboss http://www.senacor.com