It's been an amazing week in Las Vegas.
If you ever have a chance to go to LV, don't hesitate - a must see!

 

 

It's all about entertainment - gambling, shows, beautiful women, ...
And JBW was no exception. Ok, not the same kind of entertainment :-), but still a lot of fun. Atmosphere was exceptionally relaxed, great RedHat merger for sure doing its part. Each day ending with easy going coctail party, with a lot of interesting conversations going on - with other attendees as well as JBoss' core developers. And I think that fameous JBoss party doesn't need any introduction, fabulous pictures tell it all: JBossWorld party by Michael Yuan.

 

 

I attended many different sessions. When looking back at the topics that they covered you really see how huge JBoss JEMS really is. And the stuff is keep on being implemented and integrated - new Messaging and Transactions, Drools, ESB, ...

 

 

The main attraction of the conference was definitely JBoss Seam and its founder Gavin King. Yep, he's a rock star :-).

 

 

My session was good - or probably you should ask the people that listened to what I had to say. I did cover everything that my JBoss Spring intergation involves in connection to JBoss AS and EJB3. Definitely my talking skills have to improve - practice practice practice. It definitely is not easy for non native speaker to talk about subject which is not totally trivial. There were some interesting questions at the end, and Dimitris pointed out an obvious solution / fix to my deployer implementation - it is already work in progress.

 

 

But the main point of JBW for me was to finally personally meet people I often communicate with (via MSN, forum topics, emails, ...) - Bill, Julien, Emmanuel, Gavin, Adrian, Dimitris, Thomas, Bela, Scott, Jason, Koen, ...

 

 

And [remember], shaking hands with Marc was cool too :-).

 

 

Rgds, Ales

Thanx to Bill I now have my own JBoss blog.

 

 

How do I fit into this picture?

 

 

This is how I became a small part of JBoss family: Spring and EJB 3.0 in Harmony

 

 

One week from tomorrow I'm off to Las Vegas for JBoss World. Looking at the agenda one can see that it is going to be a great event - lots of interesting JEMS sessions, presented to you by the lead developers themself. There is also my session if you are interested - as you can see, it is a continuation of previously mentioned article.

 

 

Currently my interest is on JBoss Portal, Seam and of course EJB3 - since we are in the middle of developing a new enterprise application, using best of all three projects.

 

 

When you are using a lot of EJB3 stuff, embeddable EJB3 container comes real handy with unit testing - and I believe Bill just did a new release - check it out!

 

 

Just in case any JBoss/Spring user stumbles on this before Sunday - new release compatible with the latest EJB3 release in JBoss AS 4.0.4.GA is coming at the end of the weekend, in the worst case on Monday morning.

 

 

Rgds, Ales