SpringOne – Day Three (aka The Last Day of Spring)
No Keynote
The weather wasn’t as good as on the previous days – more windy and bit rainy. Maybe due to a fact, that was the first day of summer… ;-))) As there was no keynote, the sessions took 75 minutes instead of 60 to accommodate the time after taken keynote. Everything started in the morning with “OSGi, a New Foundation for Enterprise Apps” by Adrian Coyler and Costin Leau. And I must say it was really good. So good, that people were coming almost till the end and finally started sitting on the stairs to listen to Adrian and Costin introduction to this very interesting emerging technology (emerging in the server side Java as that’s de facto a standard for mobile and embedded Java application for almost ten years).
Then at “Code Organization” by Juergen Hoeller (Spring Framework’s main architect) we saw why Spring is cool comparing to Hibernate (huh, guys from Hibernate and Spring doesn’t like each other since famous fight about Hibernate support in Spring). All points made by Juergen showed why Spring Framework is probably the best Open Source software on the market. No doubt.
After a break I took two sessions which looked interesting but unfortunately were way too detailed for me: “Spring and Dynamic languages” by Rob Harrop and “Spring Batch – Enterprise Batch Processing” by Dave Syer, Scott Wintermute and Lucas Ward. Surprisingly, when the last session finished, we found that exhibition disappeared and Spring guys as well. There were no ending keynote, no “thank you”, just empty rooms in the conference center. You should learn from the QCon, guys!!!
Summary
Antwerp – 5 out of 5.
SpringOne – 4/5
Food – 4/5
People – 5/5
Fun – 5/5
Wanna go next year – 4.5/5 (means – oh yes!)
PS) Special greetings to Michael Hauser from Vienna, Austria, with whom I shared many interesting ideas and not only about IT.
