Javopolis/Belgium for those that are interested...

[Paul Hammant <Pa...@yahoo.com>]

Folks,

Day 1 :  Business stuff, mainstream sessions:
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With J2EE mentioned a lot. Web Services figured and there was an 
excellent session on JDO, with a demo of LiDO from 
http://www.libelis.com  - they seem to have a very compelling product 
that under ant control can switch from pointing at a DB to persist to 
XML or serialized objects.  Very nice.

Eliotte Rusty Harold gave a presetation of "what's wrong with Java, and 
a call for Java 3.0", then a too short overview of NIO.

Day 2 : Open Source and XP dual tracks.  
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Eric Gamma gave an overview of Eclipse, how it handles plugin, its 
marvellous refactoring support, and more.

Ricard Oberg gave an excellent talk on his not-released-yet EJB killer 
that uses a hme grown AOP thingy to handle method invocations on the 
client side. These are then marshalled asyncronously and then fired to 
the back end i a single commit-like event.  This will be revolutionary 
when it comes out.

Aslak Hellesov gave an deep overview of XDoclet, then a shorter 
introduction to MiddleGen (http://boss.bekk.no/boss/middlegen/). Give it 
a DB schema and it  will generate a whole EAR file including webapp. 
Truly excellent, but clearly quite dangerous.

Mathias Bogaert gave an expert demo of SiteMesh ( 
http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/ ) .. the JBoss site uses this for 
it's portal binding.  He then gave a fairly good introduction to Maven.

Arnoud Engelfriet had a truly excelent session on the legal perils of 
Open Source as used inside a company.  He is from Phillips and they are 
ultra careful with OSS as they ship loads of devices with embedded 
software.  This fellow should write a book, he really new his stuff.

Lastly, I wish I'd gone to Steve Freeman's "How Mock Objects happended". 
 Steve is always good value.

If the slides become publically available to any of these, I'll forward 
the link.  Some good stuff...

- Paul


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