Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

VIDEO: SPRINGONE 2GX - Mobile Web Development with HTML5

News | January 30, 2012 | ...
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, to…

Spring Framework & BIRT

Engineering | January 30, 2012 | ...
By Jason Weathersby and Josh Long Developers use BIRT to build and deploy reports in a Java/Java EE environment. In BIRT 3.7, a new POJO-based runtime environment is available that makes deployment of the BIRT engine much simpler. This article discusses several BIRT integration scenarios that use components from the Spring Framework. The BIRT project includes the following key components: The Spring framework is a popular collection of architectural and implementation approaches that makes enterprise Java development easier. Core parts of this framework are Dependency Injection and Aspect…

VIDEO: SPRINGONE 2GX - THE RISE OF OAUTH

News | January 27, 2012 | ...
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.

This Week in Spring, January 24th, 2012

Engineering | January 25, 2012 | ...
the Spring 3.1 webinar's recording on the SpringSource YouTube page. The next item is a video is one of my favorites. It's the second part of a two part talk that Ramnivas Laddad, Scott Andrews and Jennifer Hickey - all SpringSource heavyweights now also working on Cloud Foundry - gave at SpringOne 2GX 2011 on using Cloud Foundry with Spring. So, where is the first part? I'm not so sure. I hope InfoQ also got that video, as well, but either way this is a very useful video. And, they're a great testament to the value of the content created for SpringOne 2GX.

This Year in Spring

News | December 27, 2011 | ...
Among the many new, exciting features and themes in Spring 3.1, there is Spring Core provides the RestTemplate which facilitates RESTful communication between clients and servers. Spring Android provides support for consuming RESTful web services from Android devices. Android applications. Additionally, Spring Security OAuth, a project for Spring Security that's dedicated to helping people expose secured services using OAuth, started its march to GA this year, as well.

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