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April 22, 2012
Great Indian Developer Summit 2012 Trip Report
I attended the fifth, and my first, Great Indian Developer Summit in
the Silicon
Valley of India, Bangalore. The conference is spread over 4
days with each day covering .NET, Web, Java, and Workshops
respectively. The Java track had 800+ attendees (roughly based on a
cursory headcount for the opening keynote) and the hall was packed.
The theater style seating allowed the attendees to enjoy the wide
screen presentations.
Another unique and cool thing about the conference is that they
create life size posters of all the speakers and display them
outside the speakers' room. This not only help you identify your
room easily but also makes you feel like a celebrity ;-) Here are
some pictures of the posters:
Venkat's opening keynote is always fun. He talked about "Refactor
your Language Knowledge Portfolio: We're What We Can Code In". His
entertaining presentation style keeps the audience engaged and
laughing. His
vs Ceremony analogy was particularly impressive and I
recommend reading that blog.
I gave three presentations and a hands-on workshop and the slides
are now available.
2012: Java Message Service 2.0" target="_blank">GIDS 2012:
Java Message Service 2.0
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This presentation gave an overview of JMS 2.0 and the new features
coming there. This presentation had 200+ attendees and 50% of the
audience were existing users of JMS. There was a lot interactivity
during/after the session. Do you know
2.0 Early Draft is already available ?
The primary goal of this specification is to provide a simplified
API and clarify the ambiguities discovered over the past few years.
Check out
blog for a quick comparison between the existing and the
simplified API. If you have any feature request then its highly
recommended to file a JIRA issue at
title="GIDS 2012: JAX-RS 2.0: RESTful Java on Steroids"
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Steroids
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This presentation gave an overview of JAX-RS 2.0. Do you know that
Early Draft 2 is already available ? Check out
blog for a brief overview of the new features coming in JAX-RS
2.0. You can find the latest updates at
also follow @gf_jersey.
title="GIDS 2012: PaaSing a Java EE Application"
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This presentation explained the key concepts of how GlassFish
PaaS-enable your Java EE application. The talk also showed how a
Java EE application can be deployed where all he services required
by the application are dynamically provisioned. A working version of
the application, along with instructions, are available at
A video of the application in action is shown below:
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The video also shows how the cluster dynamically adjusts to meet the
elasticity constraints pre-defined for the application.
The Java EE 6 hands-on lab had about 20 attendees. The self-pace
instructions can be
here. I was pretty amazed by the level of interaction. There
was one particular guy who who came from the PHP land, was taking
notes on a paper notebook, and was asking the most intelligent
questions. There were other experienced J2EE/Java EE users who also
enjoyed the simplicity introduced in the platform.
And somehow for the past few days the question of Java EE 6 over
Spring has come up during each such engagement. My views are clearly
expressed at
Java EE 6 is better than Spring. And do read the interesting
discussion in the comments, all the way to the end.
The conference was well organized with a personal introduction of
each speaker. The rooms were well marked and the projectors worked
very well. The conference crew was very helpful and prompt in
reminding about the time remaining. However a 45 minute session is a
few minutes too short and so had to tweak my existing slide deck to
meet the time requirements.
Multiple conflicting talks were arranged such as Mike's Java EE 7
and mine JMS 2.0, Venkat's "Java 8: A Sneak Peak" and Simon's "Java
SE 8 & Beyond". This feedback was conveyed to the organizers.
Hopefully they'll be able to do a better job of this next time
around.
On a personal side, I enjoyed a team dinner at
definitely worth visiting once at least. And could also manage to
enjoy a lunch at MTR
with Vivek. The
is a nice hotel with a decent fitness center and a great restaurant.
The breakfast buffet had a great variety and very scrumptious.
Here are some pictures captured from the event:
And now the complete album:
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The Java EE 7 platform will be much more mature by this time next
year and who knows I might even submit a Java EE 7 hands-on lab!
Thank you Salt March Media
for putting up a great show and providing me an opportunity to
present. Looking forward to my participation again next year!
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