Occasional Thoughts

...and brought many new ideas home. JAX 2008 was a great event, but also very exhausting. There were a total of 211 sessions from which to choose from starting at 08:30 in the morning with session until the late evening.

Main themes as I have collected them where:

• Dynamic Languages
• Spring
• SOA
• Eclipse
• Architectures
• Web frameworks and RIAs
• Complexity of the classic JEE offers. I would even say that I heard of a severe crisis of JEE and I doubt that a radically simplified EJB 3.1 will change peoples mind on that.

I used FreeMind to collect notes and here are the unedited notes I took during some of the sessions:

General Notes abut JAX 2008

In general JAX 2008 had more than 2000 participants - a record in the history of this conference. There where 211 sessions, 22 workshops and 10 short talks presented by 178 speakers. In my opinion JAX 2009 should rather try to reduce the amount of sessions and given the presenters more time. Most talks had to rush through the content as the time was limited to an hour and there was so much to say.

Only 3 days left till JAX 2008 (well, for those, that attend the workshops on Monday even just 2 days). Want to know, what I am doing there? I got a twitter account and depending on whether the WLAN is working there or not, I'll try to update it. So check my twitter page.

Here is the list of sessions from the time planer that I plan to attend:

People can talk. People can hear. But that does not mean that people do understand each other. If a French guy is talking to an British guy, the British guy can hear what the French guy is talking. But he does not understand it, when he doesn't know French (well, maybe he wouldn't understand the French guy even if he would have known French). Sounds logical, right? But apparently it was not logical for the designers of the JBI specification.