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May 25, 2006
JavaOne Highlights
posted by ari
I have to agree with the general sentiment out there that JavaOne this year was nothing short of amazing. The entire Terracotta team who helped with the show were inspiring to watch in action. We:
1. Spoke with over 3000 attendees about our technology
2. Spoke at sessions to approximately 800 attenedees
3. Had more than 10 articles written on our JVM clustering technology
4. And shipped over 1000 downloads to various folks (most of whom were not in attendance at JavaOne but were hearing the amazing coverage about the conference from folks like ServerSide, javaLobby, Artima, etc.)
I wouldn't want to try to pick one thing as "the most important" thing I saw happening at our booth. But, I have to say that perhaps the coolest was getting to spend time with Geert Bevin, of Rife fame. We poured over his source code level implementation of Continuations and discovered together that it is inherently clusterable--he won't have to change anything for our JVM clustering approach to get underneath. With Terracotta working alongside Rife, folks will get fault tolerant continuation failover and significant scalability.
I am convinced after this conference that Terracotta should work diligently to help cluster as many Open Source projects as we can as quickly as we can. Folks seem to need the functionality. Maybe we will even do it for free, like sessions .
Now I just need to find time to catch up on all of it. The most daunting task will be getting up to speed on all the new content being added non-stop to infoq .