Sun Tech Days At Hyderabad

I represented the Sun Portal Team in the ongoing Suntech Days Mega event taking place at Hyderabad. I presented about the Tooling effort that the Sun Portal Team has undertaken to make portlet development a breeze. The event I think is a mega success. A huge crowd of developers showed up at the beautiful venue for this event by Sun. I myself attended some very good presentations on JPA and EJB3, Web Services Security, Java 6 SE features and Web2.0/AJAX and can only say by first hand experience that the presentations were very well received by the developer community.

It was interesting to see a lot many folks not having experience and knowledge of portal and portlet development show up at my presentation about Portal Pack and the Open Source Portlet Container. A few of these folks met me after the presentation and talked to me about how they find the technology interesting and who knows they might use our tools and get involved in the portal technologies tomorrow!

 A lot of developers working with Portals also met me right after the presentation and they had some interesting issues that they are struggling with the portals they are evaluating. Among the folks who talked to me, there were folks using Jetspeed and Liferay portals and were trying to use JSF and AJAX based portlets in these products. I did try to stress the fact that the Open Source Portlet Container now supports JSF portlets using its JSF bridge and urged them to try it out.

 Also announced the Portlet Contest Challenge during the course of my presentation. Come on folks, get started and start submitting some cool portlets!!