I'm pleased to announce that Craig Walls' talk Giving Spring Some REST will be given in person due to generous sponsorship provided by NoFluff Just Stuff!

If you have interest in attending free talks given by world class speakers (like Craig) please be sure to attend this talk and to bring as many friends as possible! The larger audience we can consistently get, the easier it is to convince world class speakers to fly out here and for us to find sponsorship to get the speakers to come out!

Abstract

In modern applications, there are a diverse array of clients consuming content from the web. Each of these clients has unique capabilities and limitations, therefore demanding presentation of the application to be tailored to each device. As a result, presentation logic is often pushed into the client itself, leaving the application to serve a common data-oriented lightweight API to be consumed by each client.

In this presentation, we'll see how Spring is well-suited for developing that lightweight API, employing the RESTful features of Spring MVC. We'll also look at how to secure those APIs using Spring Security for OAuth and how to create self-describing REST APIs using Spring HATEOAS.

Bio

Craig Walls is a senior engineer with Pivotal as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 3 dogs.