In Relation To

Whilst I was relaxing over the Christmas break, a few items came in which I want to share with you.

As promised, we finally put our OpenBlend 2011 photos online. You can see them here:

It’s more than a week since I returned home from this year’s JavaOne, hence it’s probably high time I put down a few words on what was going on there.

I had the pleasure of gabbing about JBoss Modules a couple times at the Red Hat/JBoss booth at JavaOne this year, drawing frankly more interest than I thought I'd see. As a part of my talk (the video for which you can download here [well, soon anyway]), I chatted a bit about what the future may hold for Java in terms of modular runtime, modular development lifecycle, and distribution management. Some things seem certain - that the current paradigm won't hold, for example - and some are very uncertain - such as what, if anything, will replace Maven as the ubiquitous modular build/distribution system of the future.

After quite a pleasant time off the road, it looks like break time is over for me. I'm quite happy and terrified at the same time as it allows me to meet and chat with you but also means I set expectations and have less time to deliver on the projects.

If you are near Neuchatel, Switzerland next week then we are having our first meeting in JBUG: Neuchatel at the Red Hat/JBoss offices in Neuchatel, Wednesday 21st September 2011.

The OpenBlend conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia will be held the 15th September in the fabulous setting of the Ljubljana Castle.