mardi décembre 18, 2007

Software in Grenoble in January

In now less than a month (January 15th-18th 2008), Sun is holding a Software Technical Event in its Grenoble Engineering Center. Grenoble is in the Alps (Ski anyone?) and a 3-hour fast train ride away from Paris. This is a FREE event to get up to speed on many different software products and open source technologies from Sun.

Registration is happening now by sending a mail to gec-event@sun.com. You do not have to attend all 4 days. Days 1 & 2 are focused on Sun Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, while days 3 & 4 are a bit broader in scope - OpenSolaris, Glassfish, NetBeans, OpenDS, OpenESB , xVM, OpenJDK, OpenDMK, Identity Management, Federation Management, Java CAPS ...

Everything else about the event:
http://fr.sun.com/sunnews/events/2007/nov/grenoble/index.jsp

Yet Another Successful JavaPolis

JavaPolis is over and it was yet another great event. I've had many people tell me they liked it more than JavaOne. It must be either the comfy theater chairs or the size of the conference (easy to talk chat with speakers and conference attendees).

It must be a habit of releasing NetBeans versions for JavaPolis (4.0 in 2004). This time NetBeans 6.0 is really here and what a distance between those releases!

My GlassFish presentation went well, very well even given I had totally crashed my aging laptop two hours before I started. Good thing I had my presentation on a USB stick and that the GF download was reasonable in size. As Jean-François wrote, the audience was good (the competition was pretty stiff) and people stayed throughout the presentation and there were some interesting questions after the talk. The startup time of the current v3 drew some nice "wow" 's and applause which I almost did expect (I'm must be spoiled after showing this too many times ;-).

Of course I met a lot of people and I'm not even going to try to name them all. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised to see the attendance in talks such as Java EE 6, EJB 3.1, and JPA 2.0. They were really crowed. Spring seemed less present than previous years and there was no BEA in sight (they used to be one of the main sponsors).

Finally, it was great to see Neal and Josh on stage together, but it seems the agreement didn't last long.