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A look back at JavaOne 2009

As I keep referring to some of the items we did for OpenESB at JavaOne, I'll just summarize some of the artifacts.

I was "lucky" enough to get on stage for the technical keynote with Bob Brewin to show how we used Project Fuji (OpenESB v3) to put together the live application "CluedIn" for J1, using the whole Sun middleware stack.

It was quite an experience, and I had several teams (especially WebSpace server and OpenESB teams) put a lot of effort into making this not just a demo, but something that goes live. The way it works at Sun is that you only get to know a few weeks before the show that your proposal is "on" - hence the quotes around "lucky" ;).

The following days I presented a few sessions:

TS-4839 - Enterprise Integration Patterns in Practice

This session I did with Bruce Snyder from SpringSource, he showed how Apache Camel can be used, whilst I showed how IFL from Project Fuji can be used. That went pretty well, my only challenge was reading slide cues off of a small private laptop screen in split screen mode, I recommend using the larger J1 monitors.

TS-5341 - Rethinking the ESB: Lessons Learned from Challenging the Limitations and Pitfalls

This presentation I did with my colleague Frank Kieviet. The intent is that folks gain some insight into why frameworks choose to do things a certain way, and hopefully to give you some criteria to evaluate and choose frameworks; so we don't expect everyone to go out and implement their own ESB using these lessons. Several of the lessons translate to frameworks in general and not just ESBs, it might be interesting to do one that focuses solely on how to address and overcome some of the concerns levied against ESBs.

BOF-5004 - OSGi and the Enterprise Service Bus: Friend or Foe?

This was an interesting presentation in a discussion format I did with Guillaume Nodet from ServiceMix / Progress Software, Kevin Conner from JBoss and Keith Babo from Red Hat. Unfortunately the audio in that room was really bad and we had a hard time hearing some of the audience questions; on the bright side it turns out that OSGi and ESBs are pretty good friends ;)

Just as I thought I was done with presenting, Arun caught me for a quick "roaming reporter" video blog

Long live JavaOne!

Posted at 12:42PM Aug 14, 2009 by Andreas Egloff in Java  |  Comments[0]