Rod Johnson led off with a Dilbert cartoon about the cloud/platform – the pointy haired boss says “it’s like you are a technologist and philosopher all in one” in response to “blah blah blah cloud”. Benefits of cloud No reason to operate own data center because does not scale. Also noted the environmental impacts due [...]

For my final TheServerSide Java Symposium breakout session for the day, I am attending “Lightweight Application Development with Java EE 6″ presented by Adam Bien.  Adam’s talk is in part an attempt to bring former J2EE developers (myself included) back to the table who may have been driven off by previous, heavy-weight J2EE implementations, such [...]

I’m live blogging from “Message Driven Architecture with Spring” by Mark Fisher at TheServerSide Java Symposium.  Mark talks about how Spring messaging involved with the idea simple POJOs, similar to JMS.  Mark’s examples involve RabbitMQ, as one of the more recent and powerful messaging providers.  Below are some notes for this talk. 1.  AMQP Mark introduces [...]