Session One was a loser. Automation of MDA to J2EE (TS-7466). While a potentially interesting topic it wasn’t apparent from the description that this was basically a vendor demonstration. Those things should somehow be noted better. Every five years I sit through (as a skeptic) and listen to the model driven [...]

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The day started out with a keynote from Oracle. Some interesting stuff. The mentality of Oracle hasn’t changed much over the years. They provide an IDE, runtimes, database integration that is very seamless but hopelessly proprietary. It’s all “standards based” meaning where they use standard plumbing and interfaces. However the [...]

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The keynote had the typical stuff, music, dancing, and of course the infamous t-shirt catapult. I was happy to have one bounce of a Sun rep, hit my coffee, and land at my feet. The main keynote theme hit a few interesting items. Probably the most interesting was the JavaFX demo where they had [...]

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