Today's the 2nd day of TSE 2007. I started the morning by co-presenting a talk on Spring Modules with Costin Leau. But before I write about that, let me mention that I ended day 1 by presenting "Spring Cleaning", a set of tips and tricks to help reduce or eliminate XML from Spring configuration. It's one of my favorite talks that I give because there are so many cool things you can do to reduce clutter and because everyone wants less XML in Spring. I think that the talk went rather well and there were many good questions from the crowd.
Now on to the Spring Modules talk: I'd stop short of saying that it was a disaster, but it didn't go anywhere near as well as I'd have hoped. I was a bit off my game and sorta fumbled through the whole presentation. Hopefully nobody noticed...but they probably did.
After that, I decided that today I'd take my girls to the beach. We canceled our beach plans yesterday because of the threat of rain and the short amount of time before I had to return for my "Spring Cleaning" talk. Instead we went to the local mall and walked around.
I've just concluded a brief nap and have setup a wireless router in my room so that I won't have to be tethered to the desk. With that behind me I think I'm going to head downstairs to make an appearance at The Spring Experience Beach/Pool party before calling it a day and preparing for my OSGi talk tomorrow.
Yeah, I know...I'm only attending talks that I give. There are several great talks here, but I promised my family that we'd get some beach time in, so I had to weigh my options. Tomorrow I intend to make it to more presentations.
Oh...almost forgot about the somewhat big news: This news comes 2nd-hand from Erik Weibust who attended Mark Fisher's "Spring Integration" talk yesterday. It seems that SpringSource is producing their own Enterprise Service Bus. The best I can figure from digging through Mark's slides is that it's going to be called the Spring Integration API. I don't know too many more details than that, as I didn't attend the talk and am only sharing what Erik told me. But it sounds kinda interesting, no? A different tact from the "don't reinvent the wheel" approach that Spring has taken thus far. I'll have to keep my eye out for it to see what it's all about.
