Presentations from ApacheCon

I presented twice at ApacheCon Europe last week. Both times the room was full - I think AC-EU is starting to have a bit of buzz that wasn't there before. The conversations were excellent.

The first presentation was about "Fast SOA with Synapse" and you can see the slides here on SlideShare. I was up right after Guillaume Nodet talking about ServiceMix 4.0. I thought it was interesting that Guillaume's main focus on SMix 4.0 is that it is moving away from JBI towards a much more modular dynamic approach that allows dynamic configuration and runtime. Maybe I'm biased, but I sat there feeling pretty smug as Synapse has always supported simple dynamic configurations.

The second presentation was "REST and WS-*, Myths, Facts and Lies" and you can see the slides on SlideShare also. I was put up right after Roy Fielding talking about REST so there was a certain amount of pressure. In fact Roy sat right in the front and grimaced a lot! Oh and heckled a bit too. But actually I think I handled it ok - I had a lot of people come up afterwards and say they enjoyed the presentation. Roy's talk was very good, but I fundamentally disagree with his assertion that the WS-* design pattern has no architectural constraints. But that's another blog post completely.

As for presentations I saw - I really enjoyed the one on Felix and OSGi from Richard Hall, and in addition the BOFs about Sling and Shindig were excellent.