As from the other posts, you should have been there the last few years :)

The subject would be something else, but the content could be what you were looking for…

Developers do need to understand the language of operations (IT management) but putting up a few slides mentioning just this is going to send most developers to sleep. The only way to keep them awake is to show how this all fits together and what kind of activities they need to perform to make life easier for themselves.

Thanks for proving my point.

William

“It is extremely hard to talk about change, incident and problem management ”

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>> “Do you really think that JavaOne attendees love to hear about how you solved problem X using your own technology, that nobody can actually use without dropping trow, bending over, and paying for the privilege of being molestered?”

Ouch!!! Would you not agree that some products actually do a pretty good job at explaining some of the concepts in (possibly tiresome) specifications and standards - ITIL.

It is extremely hard to talk about change, incident and problem management without some clues to what this actually means in practice. The same can be said for performance management where we can have many different types of levels of management ( monitoring, profiling, tracing) with difference focuses and approaches from vendors. Transaction analysis well that is even harder to explain without some real world application examples and a tool that visualizes the important data. I think it is always good to have some kind of q demo during a technical session but with less of the sales jargon - “our patented bytecode dynamic instrumentation thingy….”

Some of us do have pride it the way we have tried to tackle software engineering problems. You should always look at who is giving the presentation. If it is the sales director then you know what type of session it is.

Kind regards,

William

We all know about your homo-erotic fascination with Matt Raible’s Penis, and it’s obvious that you are just over compensating to try to hide it.

-) Things I didn’t know already
-) Interesting/good things I didn’t know already
-) Things I can apply to whatever I’m doing development wise today

Yeah. Stuff like that. And anything with bunnies being pulled out of hats.

What I’d like to see is more presentations about genuine projects, what worked, what didn’t and what was learnt. I’d like to see more around the actual architecting of Java solutions not the “pick this library and you’ll be 1337″ crap that it has been for the last 3 years.

The problem is that as with Java SE 6 there has been a clear decision that the most important thing is to make the fan-boy crowd happy and the billion dollar enterprise market can go hang.

Too many of the presentations, and the BoFs are now just presentations anyway, are just slide packs that you’d be better of reading from the website.

So for you Hani… throw out EVERY Webframe work submission, every OSS project with 2 committers and have 1 presentation on EJB 3, 1 presentation on Java EE 5 and a application server death match competition with real knives.

Java EE in paticular should be about enterprise projects, and not about the latest libraries in Java EE 5.

I’m beginning to wonder if there’s going to be anything exciting this year, or if it’s going to be a series of repeat sessions from last year? JEE 5 was exciting, but many of the new innovations and JSRs are intelligently waiting on baited breath for what’s coming in JSE 7– closures and properties? Innovations like that can dramatically change the way APIs are presented, the same thing happened with JSE 5 and annotations. Unfortunately some of our favorite specs (*cough* JSF *cough*) never jumped on the annotation bandwagon with a pure maintenance release for JEE 5. I’d like to see some ramp up in the JCP before JavaOne– maybe have JSE 7 ‘finalize’ its feature set so the stagnant JCP can pick up in activity again.

How is that in the entire Java world, including people working on open source project’s I’ve started, you’re the only one who can get my name spelled right?