As datacenters virtualize more and more workloads, it becomes important to understand the potential impact on the Java servers that may be running your applications. At SpringOne 2GX 2011, Ben Corrie provided a thorough overview of Java memory management, how things work differently in virtual environments and what you can do about it to avoid problems. This includes a practical introduction to Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) that is a feature of the VMware vFabric platform.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

In this popular session from SpringOne 2GX 2011, Spring developer advocate, Josh Long and Spring engineer, Roy Clarkson discuss native Android development practices with the Spring framework. The session covers Spring MVC support for device detection, REST implementation for handling device requests and Spring Android support for organizing calls from the mobile client to the server.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

Another session from SpringOne 2GX 2011 gives a detailed guide to Identity Management with Spring Security. Spring developer and also Cloud Foundry engineer, Dave Syer, covers Single Sign On, security standards (including SAML, OpenID, OAuth, SCIM, JWT), how Spring Security can fit in, as well as demoing identity management as a service. Dave has tackled some of the most complex problems possible in enterprise Java and this presentation provides a great guide for developers interested in security identity in distributed environments.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

If you missed the recent Cloud Foundry webinar that covered Spring development, you can catch the video replay on the Cloud Foundry YouTube channel. In this video, Ramnivas Laddad shows you how to take a real Spring application and target it to Cloud Foundry using both STS and the vmc command line.

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In another session from SpringOne 2GX 2011 SpringSource engineer Stephen Bohlen examines Spring and Platform Interoperability. Stephen analyzes different approaches to Java and .NET interoperability, discusses how Spring can help and then provides a detailed sample application that expresses some of the best practices. Stephen's work on the Spring.NET project gives him the perfect perspective on how to address these sorts of problems.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

One of the top rated sessions from SpringOne 2GX 2011 was Chris Richardson's talk about Polyglot Persistence for Java Developers - Moving out of the Relational Comfort Zone. In this talk, Chris provides a great overview of the new non-relational storage options available to Java developers, including Cassandra, Redis and MongoDB. He then talks about the practical matters of when and how to incorporate them into your applications. If you haven't already been experimenting with noSQL datastores then this presentation provides the perfect introduction for you.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

SpringOne 2GX 2011 was filled with great content on building better mobile and web applications. In this presentation, Mobile Web Development with HTML5, we get to learn about building compelling mobile applications with HTML5 and technologies like PhoneGap.

This presentation is given by Spring Android lead and mobile expert Roy Clarkson and Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long.

Roy and Josh introduce the innate capabilities of modern HTML 5 mobile browsers and introduce techniques and technologies
like PhoneGap, a shell for web applications on mobile clients, and Jo, a widget framework,
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SpringOne 2GX 2011 was filled with great content on building better web applications. In this presentation, The Rise of OAuth, we get to learn about using OAuth in our web applications. This presentation is given by Spring expert Craig Walls.

Craig talks about securing the modern web and how OAuth can help with that, showing how to secure and consume resources with OAuth.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

SpringOne 2GX 2011 was filled with great cloud content. In this presentation we get to learn how to use services with Spring on Cloud Foundry. This presentation is given by Spring and Cloud Foundry experts, Ramnivas Laddad, Jennifer Hickey and Scott Andrews. Together they cover all the details you need to understand about connecting your application to cloud services including auto-reconfiguration, cloud namespace, profile support, Java configuration and external service support. This is a great explanation about why Cloud Foundry is the best cloud platform for running you Spring applications…