Back from Eclipse Summit Europe 2008
We’re back from two exciting days at Eclipse Summit Europe in Ludwigsburg. As always, it was great to meet so many people you rarely see and get to talk to in person.
The quality of the talks was good overall, but somewhat inferior to last year’s ESE in my opinion. These are my comments on the talks that I had a chance to attend:
- Keynote by Dave Thomas: Great content from an industry veteran, very relaxed, very provocative, but really inspiring!
- Implementing Screen Flows in Eclipse RCP Applications: Clean and easy solution to a problem often encountered when you try to use RCP for non-workbench style applications like banking, insurance etc. Would be great if it could be included into SWT.
- Deploying Eclipse Modelling On an Industrial Scale with Software Factories: Boring and, sorry, I just didn’t get the point.
- Next Generation Textual DSLs with Xtext: Great concept, well done and an excellent presentation.
- Aspect Weaving for OSGi: Not really new to me, but I’m always amazed by the possibilities this opens up. Good presentation.
- Higgins Identity Framework: Did you really expect to cram 48 slides into 25 minutes? I left after 40 minutes because lunch was getting cold.
- What’s New in Plugin Development: Great new features and, as always, very professionally presented by Chris.
- Best Practices for Equinox and OSGi: Great example application, much different and definitely more fun than the standard RCP blabla. Really looking forward to read the book!
- Eclipse on Rails: RCP at the Swiss Railway: I never thought that you could really do this type of thing with RCP. Very interesting application domain and presented with great style in the tradition of Swiss graphics design (think Helvetica))
- RT Project Demo: Too short to be really useful IMHO.
- EclipseLink: High-Performance Java Persistence: Good presentation and a great piece of software.
- Equinox p2: Provisioning your world: A bit weak on the demo side, so not everything was completely clear to me. p2 is definitely something to keep an eye on.
My own presentation “Eclipse Swordfish – an Open Source SOA Runtime Framework for the Enterprise” went smoothly with a reasonable number of auditors still there at that time of the day. Thank you very much for attending! The slides are up on the conference site.
I’m really looking forward to EclipseCon in Santa Clara next year!
Posted November 21st, 2008 by Oliver Wolf in category: Uncategorized, eclipse summit
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Ralph Mueller Says:
November 25th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Thank you for your comment on the EclipseLink talk. I told Doug that one can deliver a great talk in 30min. He didn’t believe me …
Ralph