Miles to go …

Mid West Java Tech Days concluded in Chicago yesterday.

With approximately 160 participants, the conference attendees were slightly larger in number than the Minneapolis Tech Days. The interaction with the audience was also good. The day started with Tim Bray’s key note and it was a repeat of Minneapolis.

I delivered two talks (same as in Minneapolis)- "Metro: Web services interoperability with Microsoft .NET" and  "jMaki: Framework for Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 apps". Here are the questions (with answers) that were asked during the presentation:

Metro: Web services interoperability with Microsoft .NET

• Are slides available ?
  Yes, very well. They are available here. A link to the demos shown in the talk is available at:
   
  • Excel 2007 (source code, screencast)
  • NetBeans 6 screencast demo (screencast)
• Can Metro apps be deployed on JBoss ?
  JBoss WS 2.1.0 will support Metro. Read more details here.
• .NET 2.0  ?
  Metro provides interoperability with .NET 3.0. We have not tested explicitly with .NET 2.0 however it would be nice if you can test and let us know.
• Can the WAR created by NetBeans be deployed on other containers ?
  Yes, NetBeans IDE allows to configure Tomcat as a container. After Tomcat is Metro-enabled, using the script bundled with the standalone build of Metro (downloadable from http://metro.dev.java.net), a Metro WAR can be easily deployed on Tomcat directly from within the NetBeans IDE. All the Metro features, except Transactional Web services will work on Tomcat.

jMaki: Framework for Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 apps

• Are slides available ?
  Yes, very well. They are available here. A link to the demos shown in the talk is available at:
   
  • jMaki Maps mashup
  • jMaki on Rails
  • Sun Tech Days
• Can jMaki be integrated with other MVC controllers such as Spring ?
  Currently jMaki integrates very well with Rails. Support for other MVC frameworks can be added by community participation. Let us know if you are interested.
• Are jMaki widgets available as part of standard plugin ?
  Yes, jMaki plugin for NetBeans and Eclipse comes with all the palettes and widgets that are available.
• Can the jMaki WAR be deployed on any container ?
  The only requirement for jMaki for Java is Servlet 2.4 and JSP 1.2. If you are using JSF then JSF 1.1 support is required as well.
• Can a jMaki WAR be hosted on a public site ?
  Yes, The ISP need to have WAR hosting capabilities. If the WAR needs to access external services, then the ISP may also need to allow that explicitly.
• Can I use it in production ?
  jMaki is ready for production. jmaki.com is using jMaki on PHP. Let us know if we can help you in any manner.

Here is the picture album:

And I met one my avid blog readers – Roman Kuzmik. He was pretty excited to meet me and it’s great to hear you like the content produced on this blog

Next stop Silicon Valley Code Camp (Nov 27-28).

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