Last Week I was in Antwerp for the SpringOne08 conference where Skyway was honored to be one of the event sponsors and presenters.  It was great to meet with everyone who took time to stop by the booth, and to have an opportunity to attend several of the great talks put on by SpringSouce and their partners.   

(Dave and I at the Skyway Booth)

The opening day keynote was very interesting highlighting the new technologies and offerings from Spring most notably the Spring Tool Suite and the Spring Application Platform. Skyway has invested in delivering our technologies as a set of plugins that can be installed within the Spring Tool Suite to make it easier to build and configure Spring based applications deployable to the Spring Application Platform. One of our goals has been to incorporate the latest Spring technologies and best practices into our code generation facilities so it was great to see the Spring 2.5 features being presented, with an emphasis on some of the great new capabilities around annotation which we use extensively.

Skyway had a daily drawing to win an IPod Touch. We were happy to get to spend some time with one of the winners (Sam) who was kind enough to update us on our best beer options — thanks Sam, from your friendly neighborhood Skyway guys.

Christian Dupuis gave a great talk demonstrating the capabilities of the Spring Tool suite on Day 1 both in the Keynote, and during a break out session. There was also a very interesting partner talk from Oracle regarding Eclipse Link given by Shaun Smith and Rob Harrop that covered some of the great capabilities in Eclipse Link (a.k.a. Toplink) and its ability to allow JPA based persistence to be optimized.

I was also happy to see the announcement of Peter Cooper-Ellis joining the Spring team and to hear him say a few words during the keynote on Day 1. Peter has long been responsible for the Weblogic Server product for BEA and his joining Spring as they enter the Application Server / Platform market should have large impact on Springs success in this area. Skyway presented a talk on Model Driven Development for the Spring platform on Day 2 where we demonstrated Skyway Version 6 by running through the Skyway Web Banking reference application running on the Spring Application Platform. We showed an integrated Skyway and Spring Tool Suite IDE being used to model out the solution while highlighting the natural switching between model and code views. Hopefully those that attended the presentation or who stopped by our booth were able to gain an understanding of how to use our tooling and we would love to see everyone at our community site http://www.skywayperspectives.org
All of these presentations will be available (hopefully soon) at Parlays.com which was founded by Stephan Janssen  who is responsible for coordinating this show as well as JavaPolis which has been renamed to Javoxx www.javoxx.com

Valerie Hillewaere did a great job of making sure that we had everything we needed along the way which we greatly appreciated. Belgium was beautiful and we hope to be back soon!

Tags: SpringOne08

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