Gang,
JavaZone 2009 in Oslo has now been completed and from with my OPS4J
hat on, I was slightly surprised that the Pax project was heralded as
"the best OSGi toolchain out there" by a couple of speakers, who I
think are not directly involved in our community.
Also, Jason van Zyl had a good (confident, funny!...) presentation
about upcoming Maven 3.0 (+m2eclipse & Nexus). The baseline was
"drop-in replacement" of Maven 2. Now, he also said that they were
looking for projects to test against, and I am curious to know if
anyone here has tried Maven 3 on Pax projects?
My attendence was primarily for DDD reasons, which collided with some
other interesting talks, but we can all watch the videos later.
Another funny presentation was "Reflection Madness", which basically
had a "What I am going to show, NEVER do it!!!". For instance;
public static void main( String[] args )
{
Hack.hack();
System.out.printf( "6 times 7 is %s", 6 * 7 );
}
6 times 7 is 43
by hacking the auto-boxing cache.
All-in-all, a very large conference with a strong grass-root "feel"
with a decent set of speakers. I still think Oredev in Malmo is
"better". And the improvements I would like to see happening;
- Too much material and closing ceremony in Norwegian.
- Have a hackathon area where speakers and community leaders hang
around. The JavaBin booth might have been intended for it, but wasn't
set up to be convenient.
- The Spektrum (a sports arena) is not well suited. Presentation
rooms becomes 'awkward', hallways and room access extremely crowded.
- Chairs for audience is to narrow. It is not comfortable to sit
shoulder to shoulder. 20% more spacing definitely needed.
Cheers
--
Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
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