Hi Warner and all, I was very impressed with the quality of all the presentations. Like Warner, I found the panel discussions illuminating as it's always great to get some advanced notice on the 'next big thing'.
My favorite presentations included: - Metaprogramming by Stuart Halloway. I think I was most impressed by Stuart himself and watching his thought process in action. While at the conference, I also purchased his book: Component Development for the Java Platform. Stuart had 3 sessions at the conference I believe, all derived from the topics in his book. - Spring by Bruce Tate Bruce is an excellent presenter and I have been very interested in the Spring framework. (note: unfortunately, Erik Hatcher's Lucene presentation was scheduled at the same time. I heard great comments about Erik's session as well.) - JavaServer Faces by Rick Hightower Rick provided a wonderful overview of JSF along with practical examples in action. He made it clear what problems he felt JSF was designed to solve and demonstrated how it was very effective in doing so. (later he gave a presentation on JSF Components which built upon this presentation). In fairness to Erik and Tapestry, I purchased Tapestry in Action at the conference in order to compare and contrast JSF and Tapestry. (I missed Erik's Tapestry presentation in order to attend my Daughter's birthday party.) - Better Design Patterns with AOP by Nick Lesiecki In this session, Nick the AOP master, demonstrated how AOP solves problems solved by OOD design patterns. He then demonstrated some really cool uses of AOP such as Swing Thread Safety where he showed how AOP could be used to automatically clean up Swing/AWT thread violations. After attending a No Fluff Just Stuff conference, I would highly recommend this conference to anyone wanting to get a handle on the latest tools, processes and trends in Java. In addition to the panels and presentations, there is nothing like being able to talk to some the leading minds in our industry (and in my case, have dinner with them =). Andy On 7/27/04 10:31 AM, "Warner Onstine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the rest of you that were there, what were your thoughts/favorite > presos (as of course I didn't make it to all)? Any good book > recommendations (I bought the Better, Faster, Lighter Java, but am > still reading through it)? > > -warner > > On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Warner Onstine wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Just thought I'd shoot a note out to everyone on the conference. If >> you haven't gone to one of these imagine 90 minute sessions all >> weekend long of the topics that we get at our meeting, except you >> don't have to wait a month to see an excellent speaker. The sessions >> this weekend covered everything, from Web services to class loaders. >> Every one of the speakers that I saw were excellent and full of good >> information, certainly sparked my interest. >> >> My favorite session? Hmm, I got something good out of all of them, >> most of the sessions I attended I already knew something about the >> technology and had used it somewhat. I'd have to say my favorite part >> was the expert panels that were held (3 total), all of the panel >> members had interesting viewpoints and expressed them quite clearly >> and they all didn't whole-heartedly agree with one another which made >> it more interesting ;-). >> >> So, if you haven't been I highly recommend you make it a point to try >> and make it next year. >> >> Just FYI I attended Erik Hatcher's presentation on Tapestry as well as >> Nick's presos on AspectJ. I also attended Stuart Halloway's sessions >> on Metaprogramming (some aspect-related material and other items on >> factory creation) and Intro to Reflection as well as Dave Thomas' talk >> on the Open Source model and how you can bring that model in-house to >> make great software. All of these were excellent. >> >> -warner >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andrew Barton eBlox, Inc. 520.903.2541 x102 voice 520.903.2542 fax Check out the new Free Distributor Resource Center (including an online directory of more than 1200 Suppliers)! http://resourcecenter.promoorder.com Instantly source more than 10,000 products online with Product Buffet. It's Free to Distributors and Suppliers! http://productbuffet.eblox.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
