Spring One: keynote

Keynote just finished.



It surprisingly and interestingly began with a demo of Spring .NET project and how similar developing for .NET or Java is with Spring.

A lot of marketting stuff for 3/4 of the rest of the show.
The major intend was to justify the venture funding of 10M$ for Interface 21.
Interesting thing here (from a 'technical' point of view) is that 4 Full Time Employees(FTE) will be allocated to the web part of the portfolio, and about 3 to the core Spring functionalities (against a round value of respectively 1 and 1 cumulating the work of all contributers).
An analogy between the Eclipse and Spring momentums also made a bit of sense.

For the last quarter of it, a description of a few projects of the Spring portfolio took place.
Interesting emphasis on Spring Batch project as a replacement for existing legacy batch processing.
Spring Web flow and its JSF support was also interesting.
Spring IDE (my own personal favorite ;)) had an interesting little demo. Christian has really worked his $ss off on this! New features are stunning and already cover upcoming Spring 2.1.

Overall the keynote was a bit boring for the marketting part (after all the audience is not made of funders nor shareholders) but gave an insight of future developments around OSGI and Web-related projects.

I'm now waiting for a GWT/Spring presentation that should wake me up (I woke up at 4 this morning)...