Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services
Arjen Poutsma is a senior enterprise application architect with fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET.Two years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations.
Arjen is the founder and the project lead for the Spring Web Services. This Spring project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Recently, Arjen started working on the REST support in Spring 3.0. Arjen has also contributed to various other open source projects, including XFire, NEO and others.
Since early 2005, Arjen has been a consultant for SpringSource in The Netherlands.
Presentations by Arjen Poutsma
Introducing Spring Web Services
2007 was the year of Spring Web Services 1.0. In this session, attendees will learn what this solid product has to offer from its creator. Come to this session to see how how to apply the latest Spring WS release to develop and consume interoperable, document-driven web services."WS-DuckTyping with Spring Web Services
One of the most interesting features of languages such as Smalltalk, ObjectiveC, and Ruby is duck typing. This session will show you how you can apply duck typing to Web Services to make them more flexible and less strict."RESTful Web Services
REST, the REpresentational State Transfer, is the architectural style underlying the HTTP protocol. In the last couple of years, REST has emerged as a compelling and simpler alternative to SOAP/WSDL-based distributed architectures. In this session, Arjen will explain what REST is, how it can be used to build Web Services, and where it makes sense to use."RESTful Web Applications with Spring 3.0
One of the major new themes of Spring 3.0 is the support for REST in Spring MVC. In this session, Arjen will investigate these features from the perspective of a web application developer. Attend this session to learn about URI templates, content-negotiation, and other RESTFul concepts."Implementing and Consuming RESTful Web Services
REST, the REpresentational State Transfer, is the architectural style underlying the HTTP protocol. In the last couple of years, REST has emerged as a compelling and simpler alternative to SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based distributed architectures. In this session, Arjen will focus on REST from the perspective of a web service developer, using Spring MVC."