Back from India

My developer summit talk went very well. SD Hall (The venue where I had the talk) was packed with Web Services enthusiast.

The organizers has done a great job in organizing the event. Also I must appreciate their hospitality.

I will post a link to my presentation here, once I have it posted in OT (http://wso2.org).

Web Services Development in Java without JEE

I will be doing a talk on the ${Title} at Great India Developer Summit in Bangalore.

http://www.developersummit.com/sessions.html#session56

Looking forward to meet some of the Java community in India.

Webinar on WSF/Spring

I will be doing a webinar on WSF/Spring tomorrow (6th May 2008). This will be an introductory session and I am thinking of doing another more advanced one later.

Here is the link for registration...
http://wso2.com/about/news/spring-webinar-may-08/

Axis2 within Spring

WSO2 has put out 1.0beta release candidate for their, yet another new product WSF/Spring. It provides a simple Code First approach to create Web Services for Spring developers. However, since it has Axis2 underneath developers can actually develop Web Services following Contract First approach as well.

Even though it make use of Axis2/Java internally, the configuration is made very simple and Spring like.

http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/spring

The real advantage of this framework is that, even though its a beta version, it has the full power and stability of Axis2/Java in the first version it self.

JavaScript => Flash

So far the most portable web browser based rich UI technology I have seen is Adobe Flash. The coverage, consistency, and reliability they have provided, I have seen in other competing technologies.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/

This is a good example of that... http://www.civilization.com/

(Well, I am a fan of this game :-D ).

Can this be extended to handle wider spectrum of problems. I was thinking about this because of some UI design discussions I am having with my colleges.

Today, I found an open source company who has a technology which make this a possibility. Basically they take a JavaScript description of a complex fancy GUI and compile that to a flash executable. Interesting....

http://www.laszlosystems.com

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West - Day 2

Today I delivered my presentation. There were not many people in the conference, but I had a room full of people for my session :-). There are lot of interesting questions from the audience. After the session I received lot of good feedback for my ability to stay neutral without trying to market products from WSO2 during the presentation :-).

In the afternoon I had the TV interview with Jeremy Geelan. Jeremy Geelan is the SVP, Editorial & Events, SYS-CON Media.


BTW, after a long time I am driving in US. Would you believe, so far I haven't taken any wrong exits :-).

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West - Day 1

I am in the SOA World Conference San Fransisco now. WSO2 (Company I am working for) is a silver sponsor and they have a booth. There was some good traffic in the morning but it has kind of died now. Unfortunately there is another popular event, Oracle World happening out there in the same area. So people have to timeshare.

http://soa.sys-con.com/read/459712.htm

You can see me (right) and Subbu (left), our VP of sales and marketing in the picture.

I am delivering an architectural talk tomorrow on SOA Platforms. Soon after that I have a TV interview too. Hope every thing will go well.