Scott Leberknight's Weblog

At this past weekend's No Fluff conference one thing was missing that has been at every conference I've been to for as long as I can remember...a session on Struts. There was not a single session on Struts, unless you count the session on Shale which I suppose is possibly the last gasp for Struts before it completely succumbs to JSF. Well, I suppose I don't really know enough (or anything) about Shale nor am I enthralled about learning, since I think most people will use straight JSF or Spring MVC or perhaps even Tapestry or WebWork. Though, other than Erik Hatcher I don't personally know anyone using Tapestry on a production project and I know only one person using WebWork. Erik loves Tapestry and though it looks pretty cool I am much more interested in Spring MVC simply because I am already a heavy Spring user. Everyone else is still on Struts it seems and a select few people I have talked to are using Spring MVC.

Just attended the Reston, VA No Fluff Just Stuff conference this past weekend. As usual there were lots of high-quality speakers and content. This time around there were a bunch of new sessions to choose from and I attended a bunch of sessions on topics that I don't know very much about like Swing GUI development, cryptography, Java Security and JAAS, even a session delving into the depths of JavaScript. I never knew how dynamic JavaScript actually is and some of the basic rules it uses when it parses and executes code. I plan to document all the sessions I attended over (hopefully) the next week or three.

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