During the registration, we received our ID and also a gift set that has a back-pack, a binder, and a T-Shirt. At the end of the day we received also a Rob Johnson "bubble-head".
After a delicious dinner, Rod Johnson (the man behind Spring Framework) talked about what should we expect from this conference. He started to talk about how SpringSource is growing. He also remarked his vision of Spring as the best way instead JavaEE. I can agree with that sentence when talking about non-distributable web applications. I know that in so many ways, EJBs are ugly, but they have a nice side, they are distributable.
He also talked about the new products available in the Spring Portfolio:
Spring Security (one of the topic I'm interested to). Basically, the Spring Security 2.0 is meant to replace Acegi Security. One of the biggest changes is the configuration, now is shorter and easier.
Spring Web Service 1.0. Again, meant to do web services easy.
Spring IDE. Stand-alone / add-on for Eclipse to make Spring development smooth, offering also a graphical tool to configure Spring.
Rob also mentioned how software development companies are choosing Spring instead other solutions like JavaEE pointing that the community is the one in charge to decide what is the path to follow based on real requirements, instead of a "committee".
Looks like SpringSource (Interface21) is aiming the framework to become an Open Source integration tool for developers providing new growing technologies and adding new features based on what the community needs. A good example is Annotations that is being used to configure Spring, if you don't want to use the XML style.
I can't wait for tomorrow and attend so interesting presentations.
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