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Craig Walls, author of Spring in Action, joins Allen and Mike once again, this time to discuss the recently released Spring 3.0 and the brand new Roo 1.0. Topics include:

Spring 3:

• REST support
• Spring Expression Language
• New annotations for wiring, validation, asynchronous methods, and scheduling

Roo:

• Optional Rails/Grails-style scaffolding
• Extensive use of AspectJ Intertype Declaration
• Encapsulation of best practices from the Spring team
• Extensive hint system
• Much more…

OSGi Updates Since Ep 6:

• Blueprint Services released
• SpringDM used in Eclipse Dynamic Enterprise Application Platform (Virgo)
• Comments on JSR-294 and Jigsaw

Links:

• Spring Framework
• Spring Roo
• Video demo (feel free to mute the music and kick up the resolution)
• Spring in Action, 3rd Edition Early Access
• Craig’s Blog

As always, feedback is welcome at ‘feedback at improvingpodcasts.com’. Thanks for listening.

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In episode 17, Mike and Allen discuss RESTful services, tradeoffs, and tools.

Links:

• Flickr API
• REST on Wikipedia
• MIX Conference Videos
• PDC Videos
• Amazon Web Services
• Netflix REST API
• Twitter API

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:29 — 14.5MB)