Matt Ingenthron's Stream of Consciousness

Friday September 10, 2004

LA-JUG's JSR-168 presentation by Gluecode

This last Tuesday we had the latest installment of the LA-JUG. I'd meant to post a followup after the meeting, but have lacked the time to do so until now.

First of all, thanks much to Gluecode for presenting. Especially to Dave (I think is the name) the presenter, who had to slap together the presentation on short notice. Dave's an EG member (I believe), so I can appreciate how it's hard to take a few minutes out to explain what you've been working on for the last 12 to 18 months to people in the room that range from neophyte to expert.

Then afterwards we all went to the local watering hole (with authentic Thai food!-- an inside joke) and debated the state of the union. I had a good conversation with some of the Gluecode folks. Hopefully after that, they realize we Sun folk are pretty open to different ideas and different ways of looking at things.

There was some concern about how the JSR-168 EG sees things, but as I'd explained, my experience with the product team for the Sun Java System Portal Server and our Sun Java Studio teams seems to indicate nothing but JSR-168 support and momentum. PAPI is the way of the past. JSR portlets and JSF are the way to go for new development.

Next month should be lots of fun, as we're going to bring Craig McClanahan in to cover JSF, Creator and other things from Craig's rich past. I hope some of you can come in for that!

Catching up with my past

Hmmmm. No updates for a while. I need to get better about short updates instead of long ones once a week.

The title refers to the fact that I went to a High School reunion last week. Pretty interesting stuff. I was unsure at first if it was something I wanted to go to, but after the fact I'm pretty glad I did. I could point to the website or some more info, but that might give away my age!

Hmmmm. I still need to get some photos on the site from pebble beach. I'll take a whack at that tonight if I can.