Did you guys miss JAX, in San Francisco, this week? The talks that Chris Richardson and I have, and will, give are going to be online next week, but this week you should check out the presentation on using Spring MVC and Backbone.js together by Sebastiano Armeli-Battana, a community member who also spoke this week. Nice job, Sebastiano! Also: be sure to check out the code!

basic performance monitoring. The VoltDB blog has a pretty nice writeup of how to implement repositories with Spring and VoltDB to build high throughput web applications.

As usual, though, the internet has given us a lot of great content to look at this last week, so let's dive right into the roundup!

continued her amazing series on Cloud Foundry workers over on the Cloud Foundry blog last week, this time introducing the support for Spring developers. I followed up with some more nuanced examples introducing how to use Spring Integration gateways, and Spring Batch jobs and core Spring's @Scheduled annotation in conjunction with Cloud Foundry workers. Cloud Foundry advocate Andy Piper and I have penned an article that helps you take your first steps on Cloud Foundry with a simple Spring application in the new JavaTech Journal, the online magazine from the producers of the JAX…

public interface StockSymbolLookupClient { StockSymbolLookup lookupSymbol (String symbol) throws Throwable; }