Spring Remains at the Forefront of Enterprise Java: BigData, NoSQL, and Cloud Portability

About Adrian Colyer

Adrian Colyer is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for SpringSource and the

vFabric Cloud Application Platform at VMware

SpringSource develops the Spring Framework and associated open source

projects such as Spring Integration and Spring Batch, Grails, Groovy, and

Eclipse AspectJ. Cloud Foundry is VMware's open platform-as-a-service with

full support for Spring, Grails, and a wide range of other application

frameworks. Adrian maintains a keen interest in the evolution of

enterprise application development as cloud, big data, and smart clients

all appear on the enterprise radar.

Adrian joined VMware in 2009 through VMware's acquisition of SpringSource

where he was the CTO. He led the AspectJ project at Eclipse.org and

oversaw the integration of aspect-oriented concepts into the Spring

Framework. He helped to grow the SpringSource portfolio from these two

projects into the rich set of projects and products that it is today.

In 2004 Adrian was recognised by MIT Technology Review as one of the top

100 young innovators in the world. Adrian has also served on a number of

industry groups including the Aspect-Oriented Software Association

Steering Committee, the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group, and the Eclipse

Architecture Council. Prior to joining SpringSource, Adrian gained over a

decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM.