OOP 2008 in Munich

My talk about BPEL 2.0, together with my colleague Sven Bernhardt, was accepted at OOP 2008. So, perhaps we meet on 21.- 25. Januar 2008 in Munich?

German Oracle User Group Conference - DOAG 2007

Last conference for november: the annual meeting of the German Oracle User Group - DOAG 2007 in Nürnberg. Here I did a short session on BPM, BPEL, SOA and Oracle BPA Suite. This conference was much smaller than OOW, it had about 2000 attendies. But I was much better for networking: met a lot of the Oracle guys again and had lot's of interestings discussions.

Oracle Open World - OOW 2007

Next conference for me in november: Oracle invited the whole ACE Director team to attend OOW 2007 in San Francisco. That was an experience: one big conference with more than 40.000 attendees... a logistical nightmare - but all went very well.
Highlights were some private meetings:

• The ACE Director briefing, where I met all the others from the team and where we got some deep information about the upcoming 11g SOA Suite release.
• The SOA CAB meeting, where we had some very deep discussions about real life SOA Suite projects which already have gone live.
  
• The SOA Community partner meeting, organized by Jürgen Kress. Thanks for the nice evening and the good new contacts.
  

W-Jax 2007: a great developer conference

From 5th to 9th november there was the W-Jax conference in Munich. Organized by Software&Support Verlag, it was a very fine week with lot's of good talks. That time I was in the advisory board, so I saw the tons of good papers from lots of people wanting to talk on the conference. I hope, we managed to make an interesting program for all of you. I personnaly did three talks:

• Business Process Management, BPEL and SOA
• EDA - Next Generation SOA
• BPEL 2.0
  

And JavaOne starts...

Well, as being an Oracle Fusion Middleware Regional Director I went to JavaOne this year. It's quite impressive: first time for me to see San Francisco and first time to attend a that large Java conference. The keynote from Rich Green was very interesting: a very big hall, a lot of people, a lot of announcements. Java is officially Open Source now, e.g. Very cool: JavaFX. It's a scripting language capability which sits on the standard JDK and allows to do a lot of dynamic graphical stuff. Not only running on the desktop, but on mobile devices, too. We saw an IPhone clone done with JavaFX, really cool.

Jax is over...

After 4 days on the JAX 2007 conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, I'm back at home. The conference was great again: so many sessions, more than 1700 people, tons of interesting conversations, 3 own sessions on BPEL and EDA, ... Now some time would be great to think about all the new ideas.

SOA auf einen Blick

5 Stunden am Stück SOA-Visionen der Deutschen Post. Von Michael Herr und Mary Roderick. Fazit: Sehr interessant, aber auch sehr spezifisch für sehr große Unternehmen. Die Folien werden bei elektronischer Verfügbarkeit auf dem FUS-Laufwerk zur Verfügung gestellt.

Ankunft OOP München

9:50 Uhr: Endlich in München. Alles weiß hier... Aber pünktlich zum Start der OOP.

Aufbruch zur OOP 2006

4:02 Uhr: Der Wecker klingelt. Auf zum Flughafen Köln/Bonn. Es geht zur OOP 2006.