I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th. I'll be presenting on Rich Web App Performance and Scalability and Managing Client State Across Domains. I'd love to hear comments on specific topics or questions that are of interest.
I hope to see you there! Also, there's a special $200 discount available if you use the promotion code nfjs2007speaker200 when registering.
This is just a quick note to let everyone know that MaxPoon and Paul Cheung are doing a lab session with hands on Glassbox content at JavaOne today from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. I'll be there also to answer questions. Here are the details:
Nonintrusive
Monitoring of Java Technology-Based Applications with Java Management
Extensions (JMX) Technology, JConsole, and Aspect-Oriented Programming:
Using a Spring Application as an Example
This is at Moscone Center - Hall E 130-132
I hope to see you there!
Ron
I enjoyed being back at a couple of No Fluff Just Stuff conferences this fall (including the Rocky Mountain Software Symposium this past weekend). Jay Zimmerman continues to do a great job of providing fresh technical content with great speakers and it's always fun to talk the audiences at these about topics like Glassbox, AOP, and AJAX.
For those who are interested in digging in to aspects more deeply, I highly recommend the Aspect Leadership Program (ALP), which will be held in Vancouver this March 14th and 15th.
The ALP is an opportunity to learn from seven of the world's leading experts, who will provide a two-day crash course on everything you need to know to figure out what aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is all about; identify whether and how you can use it to add value, drive quality and improve productivity in your enterprise; and provide practical guidance on implementing AOP. I'm also proud to be part of the presenters at this event. Please pass on the word about this to others who might be interested, too!
This was a big week for Glassbox. We started off by presenting a tech talk on Java Troubleshooting with Glassbox at Google we had some great feedback at the talk and a lunch before and are looking forward to further feedback as teams there try the technology.
Later this, week I also had a good on site visit with a major business information provider where we installed and tested Glassbox on Weblogic and Tomcat for a variety of interesting applications. We also started work on integrating with a high availability system for a hospital, to provide performance and liveliness data. We are looking to provide more rich API's to allow writing custom extensions and deeper integration with Glassbox. We see a great opportunity to extend our monitoring with focused, application specific descriptions of components, service level agreements, and metrics. The idea is that you should be able to get useful data out of the box but can leverage the power of AOP to get more insight with a small investment. I'd love your input on this.
If you are at JavaOne this week, make sure to see Rob Harrop demonstrate a preview of the next generation of Glassbox tomorrow (Friday) at 1:15pm at Designing Manageable J2EE™ Platform-Based Applications With JMX™ Technology with an Ajax Web application that provides summaries of application problems like failing connections or slow remote calls and JMX console integration for detailed drill-downs into applications. Here is a preview:
Rob and I spent some time yesterday to discuss Glassbox and to get him a preview of our new technology. Rob, Keith Donald (who leads Spring Web Flow) and I also discussed how Glassbox can use with Spring AOP to provide deep insight into Spring applications with negligible overhead.
I've also been enjoying catching up with friends and meeting new people at JavaOne parties. Thanks to Simon Phipps, BEA and Tangosol, and Geronimo and partners for hosting some great festivities. To me, the big story at this JavaOne is how open source technologies built on Java are winning at every level. Whether in Web application frameworks or application servers, the primary contenders are increasingly open source...