NFJS
I attended the NFJS Gateway Java Software Symposium over the weekend. Jay and crew did a great job again this year.
I went to four sessions plus a panel discussion on Sunday and read the handouts for the other sessions.
Things of note:
- The Spring Framework (Bruce Tate): Inversion of control (IOC) and Dependency Injection. The Spring Framework is going to kill EJB.
- AOP: AOP is not that new and out-of-this-world any more.
- Persistence (Bruce Tate): "One word: Hibernate"
- Code Reviews (panel, Mark Volkmann): It always degenerates to a discussion of indentation and tabbing styles.
- IDEs (Paul Jensen): Last year everybody uses IDEA. This year everybody uses Eclipse.
- JGoodies Forms: I can use this in the next Swing project.
- Foxtrot: Ditto.
- Web Services (Venkat Subramaniam): "Sun's JWSDP - Oh Well". Let me skip this few slides.
- CM Tools: Dave Thomas is still teaching a CVS session. Don't know if anyone asked him about Subversion.
- Groovy (Mark Volkmann): GStrings.
- dynaop (Bob Lee): "Date is to class as trace logging is to aspect."
The buzz of the show is definitely the Spring Framework.