Implementing REST Web Application Architectures with Spring MVC

One of the major new themes of Spring 3.0 is the support for REST in Spring MVC. In this session, Arjen will investigate these features from the perspective of a web application developer. Attend this session to learn about URI templates, content-negotiation, and other RESTFul concepts.

We will start by giving an overview of REST: where did it come from, how does it work, how can it be used to build a web application, and where does it make sense to use? Using illustrative examples, we will try to find an answer to these questions.

Next, we look at the new RESTful features in Spring, including:

* RESTful URI's
* URI templates
* Content negotiation
* HTTP method conversion
* ETag support

Featured Speakers

Arjen Poutsma

Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services

Arjen Poutsma is a senior enterprise application architect with fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET. Two years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations. Arjen is the founder and the pro.. More »

Keith Donald

SpringSource Principal & Founding Partner

Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware. At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity. He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide. Ov.. More »

Robert Fischer

Java Concurrency Specialist and GORM Expert; Principal, Smokejumper Consulting

Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure. Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular c.. More »

Mark Thomas

Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource.

Mark Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. At SpringSource Mark leads the integration of Tomcat with tc Server and has also had a hand in the development and integration of the additional serviceability functionality. Mark has been using and developing Apache Tomcat for more than five years. He became involved in the development of Tomcat when he needed better control over the SSL configuration t.. More »

Hamlet D`Arcy

Sr. Java/Groovy Developer, Groovy Committer

Hamlet D'Arcy has been writing software for over a decade, and has spent considerable time coding in C++, Java, and Groovy. He's passionate about learning new languages and different ways to think about problems, and recently he's been discovering the joys of both F# and Scheme. He's an active member of the Groovy Users of Minnesota and the Object Technology User Group, is a committer on the Groovy project, and is a .. More »