At your request, we are providing additional thought leadership directly from our Technical Teammates!  Read our tech blog here and gain hints on how to optimize your Skyway Builder experience, get tips on new tools, analyze our perspective on tech trends, and discover how our technologists tie it all together for their own use.

Enjoy and speak with you soon.  DC

Thank you for making our presence at SpringOne 2008 a success!  Considered the premiere European conference on Spring technologies and SpringSource products, SpringOne was held June 11-12 in Antwerp, Belgium.  SpringOne participants lined up at the Skyway Booth to engage with our Technical Team and learn how Skyway Builder is the only end-to-end modeling tool (Eclipse plugin) for building, testing, and delivering Rich Internet Applications and Web Services for the Spring Framework and Spring MVC.  Booth visitors also had the opportunity to register to win an iTouch and hear about their chance at winning $25,000 in the Skyway Cup. 

In addition to our Skyway Software booth, Jack Kennedy, Co-founder and VP of Product Delivery at Skyway, delivered a presentation at the conference: “Model Centric Design and Development of RIAs for Spring”.  Jack’s talk provided a brief overview of Skyway Visual Perspectives, which were demonstrated as plugins inside the Spring Tools Suite environment. The discussion included a demonstration of a Skyway built web banking application deployed on the SpringSource Application platform, and how that rich AJAX application was built from the data layer to the web UI with Skyway Visual Perspectives without the need to drop into the code.  Jack also discussed how to easily blend coding and modeling, if desired, whether on new projects or existing projects, and described what the generated code and Spring configuration files looked like and how to extend those files.  Look for a video of Jack’s talk to be posted on our Community website soon!

Another great day at the Skyway Software booth.  Although it was a shorter day, I guess the chance to win an iPod (see our first winner, who built a Skyway Lego in only 9 sec) and hear more about the Skyway Cup ($25,000 prize for developing the winning RIA or Skyway Builder extension) may have helped?  Seriously, the interest in our end-to-end modeling tool for building RIAs and Web Services is growing and we are very pleased with the direct responses from almost 100 developers on this day alone.

And the monkey in the 2nd photo?  Well, perhaps more info on that in a future post

Speak with you soon.

Day one was a resounding success!  No shortage of visitors to the Skyway Booth to see a live demonstration of Skyway Builder in action.  Over 600 Java developers stopped by to engage with our Technical Team and learned how Skyway Builder is the only end-to-end modeling tool (Eclipse plugin) for building, testing, and delivering Rich Internet Applications and Web Services for the Spring Framework and Spring MVC.  RIAs are a huge focus of the event and we are well positioned on that front, so hopefully we can get the other 14,400 attendees to view our solution during Days 2 and 3 ……talking about our $40,000 Skyway Cup developer contest should help us reach that goal!

Our partners also are presenting very relevant session information:  Spring will be talking about app security in the enterprise (and the release of their SpringSource Application Platform among other things) and Eclipse will be talking about the cross-platform deployment capabilities for apps created in Eclipse (and their party).

Im expecting a Day 2 post from one of the Skyway Teammates, but in the event that they cant get to it, its clear that Sun has a large Team scribing/feeding on the other happenings out there, including the Duke’s Choice Awards (is OpenOffice really KILLING it like GoogleDocs???) and the Blu-ray partnership (although Id be so much more interested in the Beatles anthology instead of Niel Young).

Have you checked it out?  What do you think?