J-Spring 2005

Went to J-Spring this week. It was the first time I attended this annual NLJUG event. It was very well organized. The opening talk by Duncan Mills was nice. Amongst other things he demo’ed some JSF interface abstractions where the same application was shown running on a desktop PC with Firefox, a PDA and a telnet interface.
The keynote by Raghavan ‘rags’ Srinivas, Sun evangelist was quite entertaining. He discussed the ‘Open *’ (Open Everything) concept. Of all the sessions I attented the Spring Framework one by Rod Johnson and Alef Arendsen was the most insightful. I’ll definitely be doing some more Spring stuff. Overall, a very enjoyable experience. Will definitely be at J-Fall.