SpringOne08: Keynote

9h30, Keynote should start any minute.

First, the main local organizer of Spring One talks about his baby: Parleys. He shows off a very nice Flex-based UI. Flex is definitely nice, and what they've done with id also! Check for version 2 of Parleys very soon, it's great!

Rod Johnson:
A bit of commercial Blah... (sorry, but that's it... :P) though the content is quite relevant.
This quickly turns into a (little bit) more technical talk.
It also contains interesting bits that I didn't know of or have not yet tested:
- Use of qualifiers in Annotation and XML configuration
- support for Meta-Annotations (annotate annotations ;)) which allows to use your own meta-tagging for your component types and then annotate them with Spring Annotations , the org.springframework.stereotypes package also provides sensible defaults.
- Junit 4 support through specific runner (haven't had the opportunity to test it yet, but will indeed do it very soon!)

Spring Integration is mentionned there, and I think (see later in this post) that this may be very soon a very important Spring project...

Enters Keith Donald who talks about the web tier.
Interesting Javascript module... worth following...

Rod Johnson again:
Spring Powered applications: replaces more and more the JEE container.
Decoupling of business logic from deployment platform in terms of choice. (can be argued with their new server which relies a lot on Spring ;) ).
Obviously leads to Springsource Application Platform.

Christian Dupuis:
Nice presentation of STS. Should have been preceded by a SpringSource AP in-depth presentation.

Peter Cooper-Ellis, comes from BEA, and gives a little talk about his view of SpringSource and Spring.

Rod Johnson:
Predictions => most interesting: app server and ESB fusion (see Spring integration merging with Spring AP ;), it seems so obvious)