SpringSource Certification Program Grandfather Candidate

SpringSource Certification Program

Grandfather Candidate




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Point of Contact

This document is prepared by SpringSource
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The office address is i
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please contact:

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Regional Director

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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 Gran
dfathered 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

SpringSourc
e is an international company dedicated to providing the best products and se
r-
vices 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.

SpringSourc
e aims to deliver value to companies that invest in building mission
-
critical ente
r-
prise applications. It does so by offering a well
-
balanced set of premium quality products and
professional services. With this offering, SpringSource helps reducing costs a
nd 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:

www.sp
ringsource.com

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 re
c-
ognized leader in open source application in
frastructure 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 cu
s-
tomer looking for commercia
l 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 cu
s-
tomers the ability to shape the future of Spring developm
ent.

The Spring Frame
work 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.

Demonstra
ble evidence of (1) successful Spring solution completed. Evidence will i
n-
clude 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 exa
m-
ples:

2.a.

Forum posts

2.b.

Software patches

2.c.

Articles promoting Spring or explaining Spring

2.d.

User Group involvement

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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


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Job title


Start date


Role, responsi
bilities



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 rele
vant information



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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 Applicat
ions. 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
dis
tributed amongst third parties.

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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)


Ca
ndidate role, responsibi
l-
ities



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

Name

Job Title

Phone

Email





















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Architecture

Application server


Database provider


Data access framework(s)


Middle tier framewo
rk(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 Modu
les


Comments

Relevant information




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Customer case (2)

Client information

Company


#
. of employees


Industry


Department


Address


City


State


Post

Code


Country



Project information

Project name


#.

of developers


Project description (bri
ef)


Candidate role, responsibi
l-
ities



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

Name

Job Title

Phone

Email





















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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 Dyna
mic Modules


Comments

Relevant information