Just when you thought Spring Integration couldn't get any more concise!

Of course the sessions at SpringOne 2GX 2011 covered Spring, Groovy and Grails in amazing detail, but cloud workloads were hot topics of discussion last year as well. In this presentation, pioneering technologist Derek Collison gives a detailed breakdown of Cloud Foundry - Inside the Machine. Derek gives a deep analysis of Cloud Foundry’s architecture with specific details on the Cloud Controller, the Service Provisioning Agent, the Droplet Execution Agent, and the Messaging System. If you want to learn about the technology behind the world's first open platform-as-a-service then this…

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.

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.

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.

Also: if you're in Stockholm, Sweden attending the JFokus Java conference, be sure to stop by the VMWare booth to say hi or have your questions answered about Spring, Cloud Foundry, and vFabric. and improved parameter binding for derived queries for null values. BIRT's a fantastic technology for doing business intelligence and reporting, and Spring already knows about your data, so connecting them is a natural next step. Enjoy!

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.

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.