This session will explore how and why Spring is being used at a large financial institution. At Morgan Stanley we use Java a lot: What kinds of systems do we develop in Java? Why did we decide to use Spring? What problems did Spring solve for us? How did we adopt Spring across a large enterprise, for established projects as well as for new developments?

Ben will show how Spring is helping to execute on a strategy of providing the firm's Java developers with a best-of-breed blend of open-source and in-house libraries. We will see how Spring was adopted across the enterprise. Ben will share developer feedback and lessons learnt.

Ben will show how a custom Spring's transaction manager implementation that helps to address the firm's particular needs around robust, high-throughput transaction processing over multiple resources, without using a 2-phase-commit XA transaction manager.