In the Spotlight - John Lewis

Core Developer of Spring Portlet MVC

John Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

Presentations by John Lewis

Portlet Development with Spring

This session will survey the landscape for developing JSR 168 Portlets with Spring. Attendees will learn the options available for Portlet development today, with a strong focus on Spring MVC.
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Securing Portlets with Spring Security

In this session, attendees will learn how to secure JSR-168 Portlets using the latest version of Acegi Security, called Spring Security 2.0"

Portlet 2.0 Features in Spring MVC

The Java Portlet 2.0 specification (JSR 286) introduces major new features for Portlet development. This session will detail the changes present in this new specification and will explore planned enhancements to Spring Portlet MVC to allow developers to take full advantage of them."

Building Java Portlets with Spring MVC

This session will provide a complete tour of using the Spring MVC framework to build Java Portlets. It will include an in-depth review of a sample portlet application developed using the latest features of Spring MVC, including Annotation-based Controllers. If you are writing Portlets and using Spring, this session is for you."