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[Coding the Architecture] As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the ...
QCon London : day 1
QCon London started today with the first of two days worth of tutorials. Mine, entitled "What can JMX do for you?" was one of the first in the schedule, starting at 9am. Turnout was good and I had a great time talking about and demonstrating JMX. We covered the following topics.
- What is JMX?
- How do you start using JMX?
- Enhanced monitoring with notifications
- Remote JMX
- Use cases for enterprise applications
- Programmatic access to MBeans
- JMX and Spring
- Extending JConsole (with the Java 6 JConsole API)
- A case study
The feedback I got after the session was good and I'm really pleased that people got something out of it. If you were there, hopefully you've been infected too. ;-)
After lunch I attended Joe Walker's "Ajax-enable your Java application with DWR", which was a great overview of DWR and the sort of things you can do with it. After the session, Joe and I spent a couple of hours starting to AJAXify Pebble and you'll see the result of our efforts in the next release.
I've had a really good day at QCon and I'm looking forward to tomorrow where I get to choose between tutorials covering Groovy, agile leadership, agile development and EBJ 3.0 persistence. Hmmm ... too much choice for this time of the evening.
