JAX London 2011

I attended the first day of the main JAX London conference this year. It was heavily focussed on three main themes; Spring framework, JBoss AS7, and Java Cloud technologies. I found some useful information and met some interesting people here, but mostly I went to the agile sessions where possible. I found these useful

• Roman’s Top Ten Product Backlog Tips; Roman Pichler
• Slow & Dirty; Jason Gorman
• Measuring the Effect of TDD on Design; Keith Braithwaite

I would have attended the workshop day, except that the one that I wanted was already fully booked even though I bought my tickets a long time ago. I skipped the second day, but would have like to have seen the keynotes, found out more about NoSQL from Ted Neward and was interested in what Emily Jiang had to say about OSGi Best Practices. The other Jason Gorman session(‘The Refuctoring Challenge’) also sounded interesting.

Will I go next year? Probably not as it’s too language-centric. I’m preferring to learn more about techniques, methods, tools, and platforms as opposed to languages and frameworks. I’m already looking forward to the Alfresco DevCon.