Dienstag, 13. Mai 2003

Wireless Java: Keynote from Klaus Bergius (Sun).

Testing: I'm on a testing role today. Now sitting in: "Functional Tests with HTTPUnit and WebTest". In parallel, Carsten is presenting the Cocoon portal. It will be interesting to see how many people are in that one. The presentation before his was Jetspeed - which was packed.

JMS Session: Sitting in a presentation on JMS. Done by someone by Sonic Software it will hopefully not turn out to be too much of a product presentation. At the momen he's blabbing on about the company.

Anyone out there?: Is there anyone else blogging Jax? I haven't seen anyone else blogging yet. In fact I 'm normally the only person using a laptop during a sesssion. Different from US conferences methinks.

Don't stress me: Now sitting in a session on using Jstress. Later: Ok, it's not about the open source tool but about a tool with the same name but developed in a company.

Full up: Jax is booked out completely. Breaks are hell because you can't even get to the coffee. Moving from one side of the hotel to the other takes about 10 minutes of pushing through other Jaxians who are moving in the opposite direction ..

Introducing Cocoon: Sitting in Carsten's presentation to see how many people show up. The first keynote was <yawn/> - Khawar Ahmed spoke on Model Driven Development. He's from Rational and you can probably guess what the presentation was like. Carsten's just about to start and we have 50 in the room. Cool, no-one (except 1) is already using Cocoon - so it's all new material :-). Finishing: Nearly over and the number of people has increased to around 60.

Good morning from Jax 2003: Blogging from the lobby where wireless access is good. We have a booth here so my colleagues are setting it up at the moment. Last night was Speaker's Evening Out where we all went out for a meal. Interesting talks with Giacomo Pati, Massimo Sonego and others. Keynote starts in a moment and then the sessions start.