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Rick Hightower, ArcMind's CTO, to speak at Tucson JUG (1/11/05) and Phoenix JUG (1/12/05) on the Spring Framework - 1/07/05

Rick Hightower will be giving a talk Introducing the Spring Framework to the Tucson Java User's Group (JUG) on January 11th, 2005 and the Phoenix JUG on January 12th 2005. The talk will cover IoC, AOP, templates, declaritive transactions w/o EJB, and how Spring makes J2EE development easier while supporting TDD. Learn more about Spring...

What is Spring?

Spring is a popular AOP/IoC framework that was developed by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller et al. Spring simplifies J2EE and Java development. Rod Johnson is the famed author who wrote Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development.

Spring makes J2EE development easier. Spring is a J2EE framework that simplifies commons tasks and encourages good design based on programming to interfaces. Springs makes your application easier to configure and reduces the need for many J2EE design patterns (quite a few J2EE design patterns are really glorified hacks that clutter your code base). Spring puts the OO design back into your J2EE application.

Speaker bio:

Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc. He is coauthor of the popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, which covers applying XP to J2EE development, and also recently co-authored Professional Struts. He has been working with J2EE since the very early days and lately has been working mostly with Maven, Spring, JSF and Hibernate. Rick is a big JSF and Spring fan. Rick has taught several workshops and training courses involving the Spring framework as well as worked on several projects consulting, mentoring and developing with the Spring framework.

ArcMind releases JavaServer Faces Quickstart Edition also a Spring Quickstart Edition - 9/20/05

JavaServer Faces Quickstart Edition is a bootcamp where developers have the opportunity to come up to speed on JavaServer Faces quickly.

The industry expert instructor will be presenting many sessions on Sun's latest technology JavaServer Faces (JSF). The sessions will cover introduction to JSF, JSF Architecture, Developing with JSF Components, and much more.

Developers will learn the best situations in which to use JSF, what benefits it offers to developers, an overview of the overall architecture of JSF. Sessions have hands on labs where developers get a chance to try these new concepts out.

For a complete schedule of this course and the Spring Quickstart, a detailed outline and a course abstract go to: JSF Quickstart Training Course Edition and for the Spring Quickstart Training Course Edition.

ArcMind's Rick Hightower, chief mentor, speaks at No Fluff Just Stuff, Desert Southwest Software Symposium, July 23rd-25th - 7/23/04

No Fluff Just Stuff is a small, developer-oriented, conference series that offers developers the unique opportunity to learn the latest in technology from industry expert.

Rick will be presenting on three sessions on Sun's latest technology JavaServer Faces (JSF). Introduction to JSF, JSF Custom Components, and Jakarta Tiles for JSF.

Introduction to JSF will introduce developers to Sun's newest Web application development platform JavaServer Faces. Developers will learn the best situations in which to use JSF, what benefits it offers to developers, an overview of the overall architecture of JSF, plus two example applications that walk through a simple adder and a more complex CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) Listing.

JSF custom components will walk developers through the basics of creating custom components for JSF. Developers will learn the ins and outs of components and renderers, event handling, when you should develop a custom component, plus three examples including two label components and a custom field component.

Jakarta Tiles for JSF will walk developers through the steps needed to get Tiles working with JSF. Developers will be introduced to the Tiles framework and how to use it, the issues of using Tiles with JSF, plus two examples of how to use Tiles and JSF together.

ArcMind's Rick Hightower, chief mentor, just published a new book on Struts for SourceBeat - 3/19/04

SourceBeat is a new publishing company that publishes online books for Open source projects. One innovative aspect of the SourceBeat publishing model is its call for continuous updates to the titles, keeping readers abreast of the most recent happenings with their technologies. Subscribers can assist in the determination of content and prioritization of the updates by utilizing the special author blogs to communicate with the authors about what they see andread. Subscribers can expect to see updates to both Eclipse Live and Struts Live on a monthly basis.

Rick is currently working on new material for the book including chapters on AppFuse and JSF/Struts integration.

The news of the release of the two titles comes at the start of SD West 2004, held in Santa Clara, California. Attendees to the conference will have a chance to meet Rick Hightower, author of Struts Live, as he will be presenting two sessions during the conference including 'Extending Struts' and 'J2EE development with XDoclet and Ant.' In addition SourceBeat will be showcasing their publishing model and releasing new books into the ERP during SD West. Members of the SourceBeat publishing team and authors will be available for interview and comment during SD West, March 15-19, in Santa Clara, California. More information can be found at:
http://www.sdexpo.com.

ArcMind's Rick Hightower just published Struts Tiles Tutorial on IBM developerWorks (Featured Story) - 1/16/04

In this hands-on tutorial, Tiles master Rick Hightower guides you through more advanced uses of the Tiles framework, including compartmentalizing your presentation tier to better reuse layouts, HTML, and other visual components. You will build these visual componentswith JSP (JavaServer Pages) technology using custom tags and Java scriptlets.

ArcMind forms Strategic relationship with Trivera - 12/01/03

Arc-Mind and Trivera form a strategic relationship to work on courseware and mentoring program.
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ArcMind forms Strategic relationship with eBlox - 11/01/03

Arc-Mind and eBlox form a strategic relationship to provide outsourced project work for Arc-Mind clients.
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For further information please contact ArcMind as follows:
Address:
762 N Colette PL.
Suite 2
Tucson, AZ 85748

Phone: 520-290-6855
Fax: 520-290-4179

Email: info@arc-mind.com