Ken Sipe

Architect, Web Security Expert

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.



Blog

Constant Pain with Non-Constant Constants

Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2011

This thought has crossed my mind before.more »

Advanced Spock Techniques

Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011

In recent years there have been a couple of tools that stand out when it comes to helping me be productive. One of those is the groovy test framework Spock. It is worthy of an introductory blog posmore »

MongoDB Grails and Copying Collections

Posted Thursday, October 13, 2011

I currently find myself working on a project where Grails and MongoDB are the technology stack.more »

JavaOne: Rocking the Gradle

Posted Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Presenting Rocking the Gradle at JavaOne tomorrow 12:30pm at the Parc 55.more »

Throughput and High Velocity

Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Wow… has it really be 11 months since I’ve blogged. I had many ideas for blogs half written or half thought out… but last year was extremely busy. It’s a new year… and I’m back :) Let’s not focus on the past, let’s get right into imore »

3 Core Principles from 1998

Posted Monday, February 22, 2010

I was off for the holidays which gave me some time to clean out the storage area. I ran across some notes from a conference I attended in 1998 and 3 core principles stood out that I thought I would share as we start this new year.Core Principles (as I more »
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Presentations

Debugging your Production JVM

So your server is having issues? memory? Connections?more »

Architecture: Non-Functional Requirements

The agile focus of software development puts heavy focus on user requirements through user stories. However we can not lose sight of the non-functional requirements as well. The software could be written to the exact specification and desire of the usermore »

Enterprise Security API library from OWASP

When it comes to cross cutting software concerns, we expect to have or build a common framework or utility to solve this problem. This concept is represented well in the Java world with the loj4j framework, which abstracts the concern of logging, where imore »

Agile Velocity

The agile development process is all about early and often feedback. One aspect of feedback is how is the team doing..more »

Glu-ing the last Mile

How does your team handle release weekend? Is it the whole weekend? Is everyone on call?more »

Web Security

As a web application developer, you want to just focus on the user stories producing business value for your company or clients. Increasingly however the world wide web is more like the wild web which is growing hostile environment for web applications. more »

Books

by Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio, and Josh Long

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  • With over 3 million users/developers, Spring Framework is the leading “out of the box” Java framework. Spring addresses and offers simple solutions for most aspects of your Java/Java EE application development, and guides you to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.

    The release of Spring Framework 3 has ushered in many improvements and new features. Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition continues upon the bestselling success of the previous edition but focuses on the latest Spring 3 features for building enterprise Java applications. This book provides elementary to advanced code recipes to account for the following, found in the new Spring 3:

    • Spring fundamentals: Spring IoC container, Spring AOP/ AspectJ, and more
    • Spring enterprise: Spring Java EE integration, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, jBPM with Spring, Spring Remoting, messaging, transactions, scaling using Terracotta and GridGrain, and more.
    • Spring web: Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow 2, Spring Roo, other dynamic scripting, integration with popular Grails Framework (and Groovy), REST/web services, and more.

    This book guides you step by step through topics using complete and real-world code examples. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

    What you’ll learn

    • How to use the IoC container and the Spring application context to best effect.
    • Spring’s AOP support, both classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load-time weaving.
    • Simplifying data access with Spring (JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and managing transactions both programmatically and declaratively.
    • Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, email, batch, scheduling, and scripting languages.
    • Integrating legacy systems with Spring, building highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta Web Apps, and even creating cloud systems.
    • Building modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server.
    • Delivering web applications with Spring Web Flow, Spring MVC, Spring Portals, Struts, JSF, DWR, the Grails framework, and more.
    • Developing web services using Spring WS and REST; contract-last with XFire, and contract–first through Spring Web Services.
    • Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
    • How to secure applications using Spring Security.

    Who this book is for

    This book is for Java developers who would like to rapidly gain hands-on experience with Java/Java EE development using the Spring framework. If you are already a developer using Spring in your projects, you can also use this book as a reference—you’ll find the code examples very useful.

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction to Spring
    2. Advanced Spring IoC Container
    3. Spring AOP and AspectJ Support
    4. Scripting in Spring
    5. Spring Security
    6. Integrating Spring with Other Web Frameworks
    7. Spring Web Flow
    8. Spring @MVC
    9. Spring RESTSpring and Flex
    10. Grails
    11. Spring Roo
    12. Spring Testing
    13. Spring Portlet MVC Framework
    14. Data Access
    15. Transaction Management in Spring
    16. EJB, Spring Remoting, and Web Services
    17. Spring in the Enterprise
    18. Messaging
    19. Spring Integration
    20. Spring Batch
    21. Spring on the Grid
    22. jBPM and Spring
    23. OSGi and Spring