Join us for out April Meeting when ÜberConf speaker Craig Walls takes to the podium to present Building Web Applications with Spring MVC and Securing the Modern Web with OAuth
We continue to enjoy Big Sky Technology's sponshorship of the room. Big Sky Technology runs the ÜberConf and No Fluff Just Stuff conferences.
We will be raffling a free ticket to ÜberConf, June 19-22!
We are also thankful for TekSystems' sponsorship of the pizza and drinks.
JetBrains and ZeroTurnaround are providing personal licenses to their products.
Tendril is giving away a book or eBook from the Pragmatic Programmer's. Winner chooses the title!
Location
We continue to meet at the Wolf Law Library:
Wolf Law Building, Room #206 Note: Room Change!
2450 Kittredge Loop Road
Boulder, CO 80309
Directions can be found here.
6:00-7:00: Building Web Applications with Spring MVC
In this session, we'll start with the basics of Spring MVC development, focusing on how to leverage the new annotation-driven model. With that foundation set, we'll continue by exploring the new features in Spring 3.0 and 3.1 to build RESTful web applications that can serve both human-facing content as well as resources that are consumed by machine clients.
From the very beginning, Spring has included Spring MVC, a web framework built around the Spring Framework. Originally based on a rich hierarchy of controller classes, Spring MVC served developers well, but began to look a little long in the tooth compared to other web frameworks.
Starting with Spring 2.5, Spring MVC took a major evolutionary step, breaking away from the rigid controller class hierarchy model to embrace a more flexible annotation-driven model. Often referred to as Spring @MVC, this new model has continued to improve with Spring 3.0 and Spring 3.1.
Slides can be found here.
7:00-7:30: Food, Soda and Networking
We are grateful to TekSystems for their continued sponsorship of the Food and Soda!
7:30-9:00: Securing the Modern Web with OAuth
Web security is nothing new. As users of the web, we're all accustomed to entering our usernames and fumbling to recall our passwords when trying to access private data on one of the many online services we use. But while traditionally web security could be described as a two-party process between a web application and a user, the modern web involves applications that seek to access other applications on behalf of their users. This presents some new challenges in keeping a user's sensitive data secure while still allowing a the third party application to access it.
OAuth is an open standard for authorization, supported by many online services, that allows one application to access a user's data in another application, all while giving the user control of what information is shared.
In this session, we'll look at OAuth, focusing on OAuth 2, from the perspective of an application that consumes an OAuth-secured API as well as see how to use OAuth to secure your own APIs.
About Craig Walls
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for almost 18 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 4 birds and 3 dogs. Find him online at Habuma and on twitter at @Habuma.
