Springsource Certification Program

SpringSource Certification - Grandfather Request /

SpringSource Certification Program

Grandfather Candidate

Point of Contact

This document is prepared by SpringSource Australasia Pty Ltd. The office address is included below. For further information on the training sessions or customized training courses please contact:

Bob Mahan

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SpringSource, Inc.
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Introduction

Summary

This document is to demonstrate evidence of the person who want to become eligible for the SpringSource Certification Program via the Grandfathered route.

The candidate need to fill out this form as detailed as possible, to ensure the knowledge base of the candidate is good enough to grand the certification without taking the appropriate SpringSource training course.

SpringSource

SpringSource is an international company dedicated to providing the best products and services in the enterprise application development space. Founded in 2005, SpringSource drives the development of products such as the Spring Framework, Spring Web Flow and AspectJ. SpringSource employs industry thought leaders and experts such as Rod Johnson, Adrian Colyer, Ramnivas Laddad and Jürgen Höller. SpringSource has offices in The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.

SpringSource aims to deliver value to companies that invest in building mission-critical enterprise applications. It does so by offering a well-balanced set of premium quality products and professional services. With this offering, SpringSource helps reducing costs and risks involved with building those mission-critical enterprise applications while at the same time increasing overall quality and longevity.

For more information about our products and services, visit:

Target audience

The Spring Framework is the leading application framework for enterprise Java development. The Spring Framework and related Spring portfolio products are led by SpringSource, a recognized leader in open source application infrastructure software. SpringSource provides training, professional services, and support for the Spring family of products. As the creators and sustaining force behind the Spring Framework, SpringSource is the source for any customer looking for commercial Spring services.

Additionally SpringSource uses feedback from support as well as their professional service engagements as an input into the development decisions of the Spring Framework giving customers the ability to shape the future of Spring development.

The Spring Framework and SpringSource…driving powerful results simply.

Grandfathered Candidates

A grandfathered candidate is a person who has not attended the four-day Core Spring class but who has satisfied either of the following criteria:

1. Demonstrable evidence of (1) successful Spring solution completed. Evidence will include customer name and contact information reference.

2. Demonstrable evidence of adding value to Spring Products and/or the Community. Candidate should provide supporting information from one or more of the following examples:

2.a. Forum posts

2.b. Software patches

2.c. Articles promoting Spring or explaining Spring

2.d. User Group involvement

Candidate contact information

Personal information

First name
Last name
Company
Job title
Phone
Email
Address
City
State
Post Code
Country

Work experience

Current job

Company
#. of employees
Industry
Job title
Start date
Role, responsibilities

Past job

Company
#. of employees
Industry
Job title
Start date
Role, responsibilities

Past job

Company
#. of employees
Industry
Job title
Start date
Role, responsibilities

Community involvement

Springframework Forum ID
Spring Portfolio JIRA ID
Links to technical articles
User Group(s) involvement
Other relevant information

Successful Spring Solution(s)

Summary

In order to become eligible for being Grandfathered for the SpringSource Certification, the candidate has to prove to SpringSource that he or she has implemented successfully Spring Powered Applications. Fill out as many cases as possible, at minimum 2.

Disclaimer

The information which the candidate provides will be used by SpringSource only, to verify the candidates involvement in the project. Information disclosed in this document will never be distributed amongst third parties.

Customer case (1)

Client information

Company
#. of employees
Industry
Department
Address
City
State
Post Code
Country

Project information

Project name
#. of developers
Project description (brief)
Candidate role, responsibilities

Internal Customer contacts to verify candidate involvement (min. 2)

Name / Job Title / Phone / Email

Architecture

Application server
Database provider
Data access framework(s)
Middle tier framework(s)
Web tier framework(s)
IDE

Spring Portfolio products (list the version)

Spring Framework
Spring MVC
Spring Web flow
Spring Batch
Spring Web Services
Spring IDE
Spring Security
Spring Integration
Spring LDAP
Spring Dynamic Modules

Comments

Relevant information

Customer case (2)

Client information

Company
#. of employees
Industry
Department
Address
City
State
Post Code
Country

Project information

Project name
#. of developers
Project description (brief)
Candidate role, responsibilities

Internal Customer contacts to verify candidate involvement (min. 2)

Name / Job Title / Phone / Email

Architecture

Application server
Database provider
Data access framework(s)
Middle tier framework(s)
Web tier framework(s)
IDE

Spring Portfolio products (list the version)

Spring Framework
Spring MVC
Spring Web flow
Spring Batch
Spring Web Services
Spring IDE
Spring Security
Spring Integration
Spring LDAP
Spring Dynamic Modules

Comments

Relevant information