Keith Donald
SpringSource Principal & Founding Partner
Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware. At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity. He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide.
Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Presentations
Rich Web Applications in a Spring Environment
Gone are the days of page-centric web UIs that look like they were written in 1994, making the user "click and wait" repeatedly. To compete today, techniques should be used judiciously to deliver interactive, responsive, task-oriented web applications that look-and-feel like desktop applications.
In this session, Keith will explore how those in the Spring community are combining emerging UI libraries with Spring to make web applications look-and-feel like desktop applications. You will gain insight into the common "web stacks" employed today by Springers, and see examples of how to use those stacks to:
