SpringSource Announces Keynote Speakers And Sponsors For The Spring Experience

San Mateo, Calif.—December 5, 2007—SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, a leading provider of trusted open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, today announced the keynote series and sponsors for The Spring Experience, its third annual U.S. developer conference, held at the Westin Diplomat Hotel and Spa in Hollywood, Florida from December 12-15, 2007. Drawing more than 400 attendees in 2006, The Spring Experience is the premiere conference for the global Spring community. Interested parties can register for the event at www.thespringexperience.com.

The Spring Experience brings together developers, industry leaders, core Spring committers and partners of SpringSource to share insights on current development challenges and showcase the latest advancements in Spring technologies, including a live demo of the Spring Tool Suite, planned for release in March 2008. Platinum sponsors, Accenture and GigaSpaces, will be hosting general sessions and will join Gold sponsors, Oracle and Hello2morrow and Silver sponsor, Chariot Solutions.

“The Spring Portfolio plays an important role in the implementation of enterprise scale business software. Accenture and SpringSource share a commitment to fostering innovation and promoting best practices in support of this usage. Our sponsorship of The Spring Experience is a testament to this commitment,” said Paul Daugherty, chief technology architect, Accenture. “We look forward to continuing our collaborative efforts with SpringSource and the Spring community to expand the capabilities of the Spring Portfolio.”

“The Spring Framework has become a key component of GigaSpaces’ infrastructure software solutions, and we have a history of working with SpringSource to provide integrated solutions that deliver unparalleled programming flexibility and application scalability,” said Nati Shalom, founder and CTO of GigaSpaces. “We are proud to continue our collaboration efforts by sponsoring The Spring Experience and look forward to both learning from the large contingency of Spring users and contributing to the technical content of the conference.”

The conference will feature 60 technical sessions over five parallel tracks, in addition to more than 25 speakers and instructors. This year’s Spring Experience keynote series will include:

Wednesday, December 12, 7:45 p.m. ET

• Rod Johnson, “the Father of Spring,” will recap 2007 highlights in the development of Spring technologies and provide insight into key Spring initiatives for 2008.

Thursday, December 13, 7:00 p.m. ET

• John Rymer, special guest speaker and vice president at Forrester Research, will address the growing role and importance of Spring in the larger application development and runtime arena.

Friday, December 14, 8:30 p.m. ET

• SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer and Core Spring Developer Rob Harrop will discuss upcoming technological advancements within the Spring Portfolio.

“Because our technology needs mandate agile, component-based and extensible web solutions, we have adopted an open source focus and have started to implement the Spring Framework in several of our key web sites,” said Jorge Monterrosa, director of web services at Bayview Financial, L.P. “SpringSource’s business model is of great value to us because we can count on formal support from a company that is committed to this framework’s success, giving us peace of mind that we can address issues in an expeditious fashion. We are sending several of our Java developers to The Spring Experience to share our most recent hands-on knowledge and to learn more from other fellow ‘Springers’.”

“The Spring Experience promises to be a unique and exciting forum for the growing Spring community to collaborate and discuss best practices in enterprise development,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource. “SpringSource is thrilled to bring together such an impressive group of industry-recognized experts, thought leaders and innovators, all of whom will undoubtedly make an invaluable contribution to this year’s conference.”

Please visit www.thespringexperience.com to register and obtain more information on conference sessions, pricing and location.

About SpringSource
SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, is a leading provider of trusted open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications.  For information and explanation of the SpringSource name change, please visit Rod Johnson’s blog at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/rodj/. SpringSource created and sustains the development of the Spring Framework, the leading Java™ and Java EE™ application framework. Through the Spring family of products, SpringSource has helped hundreds of organizations, including some of the world’s largest financial institutions and public sector clients, build and deploy mission-critical applications that boost developer productivity and increase enterprise ROI.  For more information, please visit http://www.springsource.com.