First impressions about OOP 2008 / Munich ICM

My conference programme suffered some amendments.

• Model driven development for embedded systems with Eclipse
• SOA@T-Mobile
• Common Sense over Conservatism – is Ruby on Rails ready for the enterprise?
• MDSD und SOA und BPM – how does it match?
• Model driven product line engineering
• Spring or EJB 3.0 - two light weights in comparison
• REST: the architecture of the Web as a basis for SOA
• Case Study: The New Guardian.co.uk
• ++Panel: what comes after SOA?
• --Spring Framework in the wold of Java 6 and Java EE 5
• ++OSGi: Universal Middleware
• --What's next about Java? – Enhancements in Java 7.0
• Building and consuming RESTful JSON services with Apache CXF and Google Web Toolkit
• Better software due to AOP
• Java multi threading with multi core CPUs

Just to summarize my first impressions in a couple of words, I would say the conference was a bit lengthy, too long breaks at the expense of lectures, few really new things. Though it did not meet my expectations, I have extracted some new ideas and fresh thoughts for my work and really eager to dig deeper on several topics. Some lectures were very impressive, informative and entertaining. During some of them, to my deep regret, I had to struggle hard not to fall asleep - and I was not alone facing this problem. I'll write a couple of words to each of the lectures I attended in the next post very soon.