What can one say. This years JavaZone here in Oslo looks like a much better event contentwise than last year. I just came from a John Crupi presentation where he talked about his last revision of the J2EE Core Patterns. They have added some new patterns that reflect some of the work done by Martin Fowler in his last book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. He reflected on the fact that the Pattern community is talking together to avoid cofusion about pattern naming. All in all a nice presentation but nothing new for anyone that follows the pattern discussions or keep updated by reading the server side. One litte point of interest though. He mentioned that one should remember the difference between a basic pattern and an alternative pattern. As an example he mentioned someboy who did a XMLDelegate pattern which in essecense was a variation on the BusinessDelegate pattern.

The second presentation I have gone to was the Richard Oberg where he presented AOP from a introductionary point of view. He spiced up the presentation with some examples from the CMS product his company is building (SiteVision I think) that uses AOP extensively throughout. All in all a quite nice presentation about the fundemental sides of AOP. However since Richard is using a selfdeveloped framework which is not available (as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong) it was a bit different from what I'm used to using AspectJ and AspectWerkz. He is having another presentation about Advanced AOP, which I'm looking forward to as I guess more of my questions will be answered there.

With the lineup including Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter and Kent Beck it looks like this JavaZone is going to be great for all of us that had poor companies that cannot pay conferances all over the world :)