Last month Rod Johnson presented at three Australian Spring User Group meetings a session entitled, "What's New and Cool in Spring 2.0". Rod mentioned during those meetings that I'd make his presentation available, so here it is.
There are some other recent presentations that people have also been emailing me about. In no particular order, here [...]

A few weeks ago I blogged about the origins of the name Spring. We also get many questions about the origins of the name Interface21.
For anyone who's read my books or considered the design of Spring, the interface part is hardly a surprise. It plays on both the OO concept of an interface (for which [...]

I was on site at a customer last week and a question came from the crowd, "Why isn't getConfigLocations() abstract anymore?" After working in front of customers for a while, it becomes rare that you're speechless, and yet I was. To be honest, my first thought was that there was no way the [...]