Great Indian Developer Summit

@Bangalore
Want to know the current trends in JAVA? Were you looking for
some amazing mind-blowing innovative ideas [I got two at least ;)], I
think it’s the right conference to attend, now I wish I could have
attended all the four days of the summit.

Here is a quick snap shot of the presentations and my (personal) comments about the presentation/
presenter.

Presentation Speaker Comments

Computing in the Cloud
Craig McClanahan
 Excellent introduction
 Craig is currently working on
the Cloud API of SUN, this
presentation really covers his
thoughts on various possible
issues that are to be addressed
in Cloud.
 The advantages of Cloud
computing mentioned were
well explained in context with
SUN Could API!

Introducing REST: The Jim Webber  Very interactive presentation

Starbucks Example  Started with Basics of REST and
covered most aspects.
 It was a typical Jim
presentation, covers handling
various status codes, Media
Types, Microformats.

COBOL in the 21st Century : Ashish Masand Hmmm sorry no comments, author said
Blending the Past with Future he was not trying to sell any particular
Opportunities product ;), I felt he was trying to sell his
whole company product stack!!!

RESTful? What's a RESTful? Craig McClanahan  This was almost like a

continuation of Jim’s
presentation and infact more
generic.
 Craig explained the basics of
REST like URI’s, Statelessness,
and Representations with
examples.
 Explained various scalability
constrains of Session based
applications.
 Very interesting presentation
 not much about
implementation but excellent
concepts well explained
(sometimes in context with SUN
Cloud API)

Building RESTful Craig McClanahan  This was a continuation of

Applications with JAX-RS RESTful presentation and more
specifically with JAX-RS.
 Looks like even thou JAX-RS is
great Craig is not very happy
about its completeness, he
definitely knew in and out of
JAX-RS as he mentioned the are
using them extensively in SUN
Cloud API.
 One major concern which I
always use to think of,
especially for building a RESTful
application is the Client
programming, Clients here
really need to be very
intelligent to adapt them self
based on various status codes
returned, Jersey (Reference
implementation of JAX-RS)
seem to have client side coding
support with annotations which
is excellent, but this features
itself is not a standard as per
JSR 311, so this is something
Jersey is providing as a add-on.

Crystal Reports for Java Vijay Nag No comments again, but this was much
Developers better presentation, wish Crystal
reports was a Open Source project ;)

IEEE's Initiatives for the Dr. Rangachar Kasturi This was really more about IEEE
Developer Ecosystem certifications and their contributions.

The Next Generation of Java Mike Keith  Mike is a really cool presenter,
EE but nothing much is going to
change in JEE6 in simple words
all that you will see is JSF 2, JPA
2, JSTL 1.2, ETL 1.2, Servlet 3,
JSP 2.2, EJB 3.1, JAX-RS, EJBLite
(container).
 EJB 3.1 seems to have some
really cool stuff as well as
Servlets as both are going to
support Asynchronous
 requests.
 The funny part if now you can
have EJB’s in a Web Application
(WAR file), (hmmm now how
can I explain difference b/w
appserver and a servlet engine
anymore?)
 I at least expected to see JBI 2
or SCA to be part of JEE6
neither are part of it!

Guerrilla SOA Jim Webber  This was the most funniest

presentation packet with great
information, it’s really nice to
see the way Jim presents his
thoughts and all those funny
voice modulations (noise)
 Very interactive presentation
 As usual he started his guerrilla
fight against WS-* (Hmm
people who don’t know much
about Jim must be wondering is
he talking for or against SOA,
the fact is he always try to
explain Internet scale
integration, which is not very
easy to understand and achieve
using WS-*)
 Slides were excellent with good
animation effects to explain the
concepts in clear.
 Jim’s jokes of ESB, I am sure
the people who must have been
working very hard on various
ESB’s must be cursing him ;)
 My Caution about Jim’s
presentations don’t get carried
away by his jokes, try to extract
information you are looking out
for!

To summarize, it was a great day, lot of interesting concepts and well organized event, by the way
some of the stalls were really interesting especially Yahoo HackLite!, Yahoo has a new mobile
platform called BluePrint, guess what they already have implemented this for SlideShare check
http://mobile.yahoo.net/developer/blog/2009/04/20/slideshare-mobile-on-blueprint/ and their
BOSS API looks kind of promising. Stay tuned for my tomorrows Workshops! Not sure what to expect
in fact confused in deciding which one to attend especially many being in parallel , Wish they were
in serial ;)