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Time: April 30, 2014 from 6:30pm to 10pm
Location: Community Foundation of Sarasota
Street: 2635 Fruitville Rd
City/Town: Sarasota, FL 34237
Website or Map: http://g.co/maps/c84e5
Event Type: jug, meeting
Organized By: Chris Schaefer
Latest Activity: Apr 8, 2014
April's topic will be "Spring Boot and More!" presented by Ken Krueger, Global Education Delivery Manager for Pivotal Software.
Meeting Overview:
The recent release of Spring Boot 1.0 promises to dramatically improve the getting started experience with Spring. This session will introduce Spring Boot, discuss how it simplifies dependency management, demonstrate how to create web and REST style applications, show how easy it is to incorporate Spring Data's automatic repository implementations, and show how Spring Data REST makes JPA-backed REST applications a snap.
Speaker Bio:
Ken Krueger is a Global Education Delivery Manager for Pivotal software. Ken has been in IT for 25 years, spanning the mainframe, client server, web, and cloud eras. Ken has spent much of the last few years training organizations on the use of Spring.
This event will take place on Wednesday April 30th, 2014.
Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm: Food and networking
7:00pm - 8:30pm: Presentation
The event will be hosted by The Community Foundation of Sarasota located at:
2635 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL 34237 (Google map: http://g.co/maps/c84e5)
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