[Australasia-spring-interest] Upcoming Spring events

[Ben Alex]

Hello there!

In this email:

* Training summary
* Upcoming user group meetings
* Launch parties coming on Friday 23 May
* JavaOne just over a week away
* JAOO conference and special discount for Spring users

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TRAINING SUMMARY
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In addition to our always-popular Core Spring and Core Hibernate
courses, we're delighted to also introduce our new Core Web Services
course. This new course focuses on building applications with the Spring
Web Services framework, and is ideal for anyone exploring ESB, SOA, and
WS-* applications. Our upcoming Asia-Pacific training schedule is below,
with early bird discounts still available for most courses:

CITY        COURSE          DATES           DETAILED INFORMATION
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Sydney      Core Spring     19/05 - 22/05   http://tinyurl.com/59o7x3
Wellington  Core Spring     27/05 - 30/05   http://tinyurl.com/6btyfz
Melbourne   Core Spring     27/05 - 30/05   http://tinyurl.com/5sh86g
Sydney      Web Services    05/06 - 06/06   http://tinyurl.com/6dwba8
Canberra    Core Spring     09/06 - 12/06   http://tinyurl.com/69bjfk
Sydney      Core Hibernate  11/06 - 13-06   http://tinyurl.com/6x247t
Wellington  Core Hibernate  23/06 - 25/06   http://tinyurl.com/6gsgvf
Brisbane    Core Spring     23/06 - 26/06   http://tinyurl.com/5ffsnq
Wellington  Web Services    26/06 - 27/06   http://tinyurl.com/68fajm
Hong Kong   Core Spring     01/07 - 04/07   http://tinyurl.com/5bqpdx
Singapore   Core Spring     15/07 - 18/07   http://tinyurl.com/5r35qe

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UPCOMING USER GROUP MEETINGS
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We've scheduled a number of free user group meetings over the coming
months. At these meetings SpringSource's Dr Paul Chapman will be
presenting a session entitled, "Spring 2.5: Enhanced productivity and
production power". This session is aimed at existing Spring users and
will introduce new capabilities including automated component scanning,
expanded annotated metadata services, and the considerable advancement
of convention over configuration in Spring's web framework. Paul's
session will also explore some of the more significant production and
runtime enhancements, including Spring 2.5's OSGi bundle support and the
new Spring Advanced Management Suite (AMS).

Paul's session will be intensely demonstration oriented, focusing on
refactoring an existing Spring 2.0 application to leverage the new
Spring 2.5 capabilities.

Please use the links provided below to obtain full information:

* SYDNEY: Wed 30 April. Info: http://tinyurl.com/69ytnc
* WELLINGTON: Thu 1 May. Info: http://tinyurl.com/65ozo3
* MELBOURNE: Wed 7 May. Info: http://tinyurl.com/652mzr
* CANBERRA: Wed 14 May. Info: http://tinyurl.com/6xtqf4
* HONG KONG: Thu 22 May. Info: http://tinyurl.com/5pya34
* AUCKLAND: Wed 18 June. Info: http://tinyurl.com/3hfvpl

I'll also be presenting at a series of user group meetings throughout
June, July and August. This includes meetings in several new cities,
including Christchurch. Further details will be posted on this list
closer to the meeting dates.

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LAUNCH PARTIES ON FRIDAY 23 MAY
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Doing anything on the evening of Friday 23 May?

We're presently planning a series of launch parties for Friday 23 May in
cities throughout Asia-Pacific. The parties will be the very first on
the planet to celebrate our exciting and as-yet-unannounced new
products. You'll witness the first public demos, plus enjoy free drinks,
food, socialising and fun with local developers and SpringSource people
alike. Full details will be posted on this list shortly, so stay tuned.

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JAVAONE JUST OVER A WEEK AWAY
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JavaOne is running again on 6-9 May in San Francisco. JavaOne covers all
of the Java editions (SE, ME, EE) and offers very high-quality sessions
including RIA, scripting, tooling, open source, ecommerce,
interoperability and Web 2.0. Spring sessions include:

* Dr Rod Johnson, the father of Spring and CEO of SpringSource, will be
presenting Spring 2.5.

* Dr Dave Syer, SpringSource principal consultant, will be presenting on
Spring Batch.

* I will be presenting a session entitled, "Addressing tomorrow's
security requirements in enterprise applications". This will include
Spring Security 2.0, which was released two weeks ago.

In addition to Rod, Dave and I, there will be a large contingent of
other SpringSource people at the conference. Please drop by our booth
and say hello.

You can learn more about JavaOne (including early bird registration and
free student admission) at http://tinyurl.com/nk33s.

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JAOO - FOR DEVELOPERS BY DEVELOPERS
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SpringSource is pleased to be a sponsor of Australia's first JAOO
conference. Not only will there be Spring-specific sessions by Rod
Johnson and I, but there is an exciting line up of other international
speakers including Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Robert Martin and Steve
Vinoksi. This is the first and only Australian conference where you will
see such a diverse range of high-quality international speakers.

The conference will cover best practices, architecture and design,
enterprise systems, new languages, plus lean and agile software
development. Tracks include new frontiers, cloud computing, new
programming models, scripting and DSLs, plus server platforms.

There will be two JAOO conferences run in Australia this year:

* BRISBANE: 29-30 May.More: http://tinyurl.com/5bmfde
* SYDNEY: 2-3 June. More: http://tinyurl.com/6hl49n

In addition, an exclusive special discount is available to members of
the Australasia-spring-interest list. This discount provides a discount
off the already-discounted early bird rate. Use promotion code
"springsource_early" before 30 April to secure a 10% discount off the
now-expired early bird rate. After 30 April, you can still achieve a 10%
discount off the current price by using promotion code "springsource".

I hope see you at JAOO, JavaOne, our launch parties, or one of the
upcoming user group meetings across our region.

Best regards

Ben Alex
Principal Software Engineer
SpringSource - Delivering The World's Leading Enterprise Java Platform
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