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"I have 16 minutes left of my prepaid wireless connection, and I don’t feel like paying more for it. I have covered a few sessions for which the amount of text is too much for the network to handle, so I’ll post it when I get home. I’m right now listening to Scott W Ambler who is really an excellent speaker. More on him later."

"Linda DeMichiel together with Mike Keith again walking us through the new EJB3 API. I must say that I like the idea of the one, true, unified O/R mapping framework. Also providing a decent set of default values id really smart - the table mapping is reminiscent of Rails. I wonder what all the app server vendors think of the fact that it can be run outside of EJB? This is another reason that you most probably can get by with Spring in most cases which really must upset the app server vendors and especially JBoss."

"Javapolis is held in a combined conference center / movie theater complex. This makes for very comfortable chairs, really good audio and no daytime sunlight what so ever. So far the talks I’ve been to have been really good. It seems that my problem with wifi jas something to do with size - I can send short emails, but not long. Also, it seems that I have to keep my posts short to get them to my server."

"This was another packed session, even though according to raised hands less than 10% of the audience actually uses JSF. Maybe people where there gathering arguments to not use it? The talk was very detailed and I can’t help think that JSF seems to be incredibly complex. One advice to get JSF right was to “avoid HTTP thinking”. That is the exact reason why I don’t like component based web frameworks."

"EJB intro with Linda de Michiel. I remember listening to Linda presenting EJB2 at JavaOne 2000 saying that now they had fixed everything that was wrong with EJB1. I must say that is quite a deja-vu listening to her talking about how EJB3 fixes everything that was wrong with EJB2."

"The first talk I attended was More Java Puzzles with Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter. While I normally find these kind of questions way too C++-ish (“can you tell what this piece of unreadable code does?”) Joshua and Neal presents it very well. I got four out of eight right by the way."

"Apart from the RAD race price thingy, Graham Hamilton of Sun presented Mustang and Dolphin, the upcoming Java releases. What cought my interest the most is that Mustang will include Rhino, and Dolphin will provide a completely new byte code format for dynamic languages. Could it be that this is also related to BEA’s future support of “languages that might take off”?"

"I’m a little disappointed with this one as I didn’t learn that much from it. As I managed to get one of the coveted seats next to a power outlet i am still here though :)."

"The room was packed when Javaland superstar Rod Johnson presented the new features in Spring 2.0. The new XML tags are quite nice as they reduce the amount of configuration code. Rod mentioned that the JPA implementation in Glassfish will basically be TopLink out of the box, making this a truly usable reference implementation."

"This talk had Jason Carreira presenting WebWork. It was good getting information regarding the WebWork/Struts merger straight from the source. In the Q&A session, people asked a lot of questions about tool support. This surprises me - why do people find this a necessity? Are people actually like Bill Roth of BEA who said in his keynote that he can’t write XML manually? Of course, he sells tools."