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Added by Stephan Janssen, last edited by Stephan Janssen on Mar 03, 2005 (view change)

So next week I'm flying over to Las Vegas to attend (for the 2nd time) The Server Side Symposium.
I'm looking forward to meet different speakers and mingle with other attendees and hopefully learn a few new Java things.
Hopefully Floyd will have a Java wall, so I can draw JavaPolis in big letters on every December month

Another mission to attend TSSS is, of course, to invite some people to speak at this year JavaPolis 2005.

I'll meet with Ted Neward who is actually the first invited speaker (already since December 2004) for JavaPolis 2005.
He's written a book on Effective Enterprise Java (where did he get his inspiration from for his book cover?) that will be an interesting talk.
Ted is also involved in the ServerSide.net and because of that he can really make a nice comparison between J2EE and .NET.
During last years TSSS he moderated a talk on J2EE and .NET and Jo Wyns and I were nicely surprised how well he knew both architectures and APIs.

Other people I want to meet are Jason Hunter (XQuery) and Jason Carreira (XWork) and John Crupi all of them have still yet to speak at JavaPolis

I'm also interested to see how far Geronimo is with their J2EE implementation; Dain Sundstrom is the man to follow.

Anybody else going from Belgium ?
If not, let me know whom I should invite

Stephan

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During the opening keynote, Floyd introduced a cool device called OptionFindier IQ. This device allows all attendees to reply to polls in a real-time way. Some questions Floyd asked were do you like "Start Trek" or "Star Wars" After a few seconds we saw the results on his slide, cool ! A more Java related question was "Which IDE do you use?", from the 500+ attendees 53% responded to Eclipse and 20% use IDEA, even when all the Eclipse developers are at EclipseCon this week
The highest response for "Favorite web framework" was (of course) Struts, followed by Spring MVC. Symposium wiki users can post more questions which will get handled in the following days.

During Floyds intro he told the attendees that TSSJS is unique in it's kind because of the focus to senior J2EE developers and getting the Java community together once a year. I really appreciated that he also mentioned JavaPolis as a similar conference with the same mind-set and focus, thanks Floyd !!

Mark Hapners keynote on collaborative Web Services was very high-level vision talk summarized in : J2SE + J2EE + JBI = collaborative web services.

More later...

Posted by Stephan Janssen at Mar 03, 2005 13:54 | Permalink

Stephan - having lived through day one - all I can say is - JavaPolis is better!

Posted by Duncan Mills at Mar 04, 2005 11:43 | Permalink

Personally I think that the JavaPolis Conference has a more Community spirit approach than TSS Symposium, resulting in sharing (in a wide-spread manner) Java/J2EE information, making the slides and talks available for everybody through our website, streams and DVD. And all of this for FREE with a very LOW ENTRY entrance fee for the conference.

However TSS does compensate these limitations in a big way by what they do with their site which is the essence of TSS !

Floyd, why can't you make the Symposium slides available for all registered TSS members

Posted by Stephan Janssen at Mar 04, 2005 12:24 | Permalink

The presentation yesterday of Ted Neward was really cool, I really like his way of presenting which is also very interactive. It would be great this year to have a JavaPolis university track, where Joshua Bloch does an "Effective Java" talk followed by an "Effective Enterprise Java" talk by Ted Neward. That would ROCK!

Next to that I spoke with [Jason Hunter|http://www.theserverside.com/symposium/bios.html#jason_hunter[ who is interested in talking this year at JavaPolis. Jason could present talks on XQuery, Open Source from Inside and probably other...

Yesterday I also followed the EJB3 talk from Linda, because I wanted to know what the status was on the spec. EJB3 will go in public final draft during JavaOne this year, other than that no big surprises compared to last year

The pool party was a nice opportunity to meet some other Europeans including the other 4 Belgians here at TSSJS from the Loop factory. John Rizzo will be announcing today during a BOF session, his Java Black Belt initiave, great stuff !

Posted by Stephan Janssen at Mar 04, 2005 12:37 | Permalink

Seeing the above posts, it looks like I love smileys... I guess I must be a happy person... yep

Posted by Stephan Janssen at Mar 04, 2005 12:40 | Permalink

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