In the Spotlight - Erwin Vervaet

Erwin Vervaet

Originator of Spring Web Flow Project

Erwin Vervaet is a software engineer with a keen interest in applying modern IT concepts and tools. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Erwin has been using Java since its inception and has extensive experience applying it in IT research, e-commerce projects, open source initiatives, industrial software systems and business support applications. He currently works as an independent consultant, running his own software and consultancy company: www.ervacon.com.

Erwin also enjoys teaching and speaking on Java and Spring related subjects. As the originator the Spring Web Flow project, he currently co-leads it's development together with Keith Donald. He also authored the first book entirely dedicated to Spring Web Flow: Working with Spring Web Flow.


















Presentations by Erwin Vervaet

Spring Web Flow Hidden Gems

Spring Web Flow is a powerful UI flow engine with many unique features to take advantage of in your own applications. In this session, you will learn about some of the lesser known features of Spring Web Flow and when to use them. Even if you have been working with Web Flow for some time, you'll come out of this session having learned something new."

Temporal Issues in a Rich Domain Model

This session will explain the common and complex requirement of tracking changes to information managed by a rich domain model. You will be introduced to actual-temporal, record-temporal and bi-temporal change tracking and the issues involved. Furthermore, you will also learn about several different approaches and patterns related to this problem. Finally, Erwin will show you a practical implementation of bi-temporal data leveraging Hibernate.
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Books by Erwin Vervaet

Working with Spring Web Flow
by Erwin Vervaet

Working with Spring Web Flow
  • Spring Web Flow is an exciting open source framework for developing Java web applications. The framework improves productivity by addressing three major pain-points facing web application developers: user interface navigation control, state management, and modularity.

    This book covers Spring Web Flow in detail by explaining its motivation and feature set, as well as providing practical guidance for using the framework to develop web applications successfully in a number of environments.

    From this book you will learn:

    * How to get started with Spring Web Flow
    * Leveraging Spring Web Flow's powerful features
    * Extending the framework to take it beyond its out of the box feature set
    * Best practices and real world use-cases
    * Insights into the design and implementation of the framework

  • Available At: http://www.ervacon.com/products/swfbook/index.html