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.

Yet another session from SpringOne 2GX 2011. This one gives instructions for how to get the most out of Spring and Google App Engine. Spring portability has given developers freedom of choice for applications servers and that now translates to a lot of freedom in choice of cloud platforms. This presentation is given by Chris Ramsdale, the Product Manager for Google App Engine and he covers a brief introduction to App Engine, how to use Spring, access to relation data in the cloud and gives tips for performance tweaks. This is a great introduction to using Spring on one of the many cloud…

Here is another session from SpringOne 2GX 2011. This one gives instructions for Writing Applications for Cloud Foundry Using Spring and MongoDB. The Spring material is presented by data expert Thomas Risberg and the Mongo material is presented by Jared Rosoff from 10gen. The presentation provides a technical introduction to Cloud Foundry, MongoDB and Spring Data for MongoDB (including Mongo Template and Mongo Repository support). This is a great way to dive into noSQL and cloud at the same time!

There were some amazing sessions at SpringOne 2GX 2011 and this one was no different. John Davies, co-founder and CTO of Incept5, talks about the challenges present in doing enterprise integration in large financial systems. John discusses the challenges specific to financial services which include massive volume, low latency and highly specialized data exchange formats. John then details specific places where enterprise integration can be successful and in particular where Spring Integration can provide great solutions.

Here is more great content from SpringOne 2GX 2011, this time a complete update to Spring MVC 3.1 covering URI variables, Redirect & Flash attributes, UriComponentsBuilder, Multipart Request Support, and HDIV Integration. This video presentation is by Rossen Stoyanchev, one of the Spring experts who commits to Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow.

The new year is off to a phenomenal start with more great content from SpringOne 2GX 2011, this time a detailed introduction to Getting Started with Spring Security 3.1. This video presentation is by Rob Winch, one of those amazing Spring community members that answers all kinds of questions on the community forums. In this introduction Rob covers:

Here is more great content from SpringOne 2GX 2011, this time a detailed follow-up to the mobile demonstrations in the technical keynote. This video presentation is by Keith Donald and Roy Clarkson, who have been doing the advanced web work for Spring. In Making the Mobile Web Native with PhoneGap Keith and Roy cover:

Now that everyone has had a chance to see the keynote presentations from SpringOne 2GX 2011 and that Grails 2.0 has been released we can share more conference sessions from the 2GX side of the show. This video presentation is by Peter Ledbrook, Developer Advocate for Grails, and he discusses running Grails in the Cloud. He compares the different cloud providers out there and looks at some of the best solutions for hosting your Grails applications.

In this new video interview from InfoQ, Spring expert, Oleg Zhurakousky talks about messaging, Spring Integration, and Cloud Architectures. This interview, filmed in October at JavaOne 2011, provides some background to how the Spring team has been thinking about emerging new models of application design for cloud platforms.

VMware's vFabric SQLFire became GA today. It is a memory-optimized distributed SQL database delivering dynamic scalability and high performance for data-intensive modern applications. SQLFire provides developers with a simple SQL interface and Spring developers can connect their application easily using plain JDBC.