Cameron Purdy went to JavaOne and blogged about it. I've been to JavaOne a couple times, and what he says about the homeless people in downtown San Francisco is true. They make a sad impression on us suburbanites from the northeast.
I like Cameron's entry on Ted Neward's talk at the Oracle booth at JavaOne. Ted's cool.
I totally agree with this point of Cameron's about Web Services and J2EE, which I have made myself about .NET and Microsoft's hype for VisualStudio and Web Services development (substitute ".NET" where he says "J2EE"):
"It's not about new code that people are writing for J2EE; it's about the thousands of components that those PhDs built with CORBA interfaces that businesses are going to be running for the next twenty years. Or more, judging by how many mainframe apps are still running for the fourth decade or so. I'll be the first person in line to celebrate the passing of CORBA (and DCOM, although I've seen very little of it in production use in the data center)."
Likewise for .NET -- those doing all new development with no dependencies or no ugly, sometimes maddening integration with legacy and other current but barely compatible systems (e.g., portals and databases with business logic code) are probably in the minority. Slapping together .NET apps is as easy as (or easier than) slapping together a J2EE app if there are no legacy or cross-platform concerns to worry about. If you are using pure .NET then you should use .NET remoting, not Web services.
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