The Devoxx organisers scheduled quickies during our lunch hour. These 15-min sessions covered a topic briefly but, in most cases, was enough to whet the appetite.  Nicolas Martignole (of  Le Touiller Express fame) presented one such session based upon his experience comparing and evaluating ESBs.

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Paul De Winne delivered a well-prepared session at Devoxx 2008 where he spoke about how business components can be built with reusability in mind.  He works for HP and has often been called in to consult on projects that have problems with reusability and used a few war stories to add colour to his points.  His key points were:

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Alois Reitbauer from Dynatrace presented an excellent session on anti-patterns related to performance.  Alois is a very accomplished speaker and the audience knew this as not only was the room full, but there were people sitting on the stairs, floor and anywhere they could get comfortable.  I’d spoken to Alois when at TSS-JS conference in Prague so I was looking forward to this.

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REST was featured one other time at Devoxx in a talk by Cristina Lau from IBM who showed us a REST based architecture for work flow management.  Given my interest in BPM, I was curious to see what this is all about. Coincidentally, I’m also curious about BPM and will be working with BPMS in the near future so this talk seemed like it might hit the spot.

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Never a dull moment at Devoxx ‘08 this year, particularly the well-prepared session by Stefan Tilkov about REST (or, to be precise, about RESTful HTTP).  Stefan is quite the REST advocate and talked to us about some anti-patterns and patterns to use when building RESTful HTTP applications.  I’ve been trying to get to grips with REST for awhile (Dan Diephouse’s been doing a good job of this) and this session certainly helped (more…)

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A quickie session at Devoxx ‘08 by Matthias Lübken was all about developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) if you are a Plain Old Java Developer (POJD).  Matthias spoke of his wish to build RIAs without having to spend too much time learning new languages or technologies. He stumbled upon a route that let him leverage his existing Java skills

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I attended (and presented at) Devoxx 2008 this year.  Previously, this conference was called Javopolis but a trademark dispute with Sun meant that they had to change this to something without the “Jav” or “Java” prefix.

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I’m pleased to announce that I have been selected as one of the speakers for this year’s DeVoxx (formerly known as Javopolis) Java conference in Antwerp this December.  I’m going to deliver three talks there:

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Last week was JavaZone week in Oslo, Norway.  I attended with two aims in mind:

1. I wanted to attend some of the excellent sessions
2. I wanted to be there to promote our upcoming Mule book and our current portfolio of Mule courses.

In both cases, I wasn’t disappointed.

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I’ve often been asked about mocking Mule elements for unit tests since, I’m told, this would help not have to implement certain segments of an integration project and still test the entire Mule configuration. This is not really the case.

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