Jazoon Day 2
On Tuesday morning I found time to attend two sessions at Jazoon. The first talk was “Hibernate/J2EE” replaces Cobol – Real World Experiences” by Marc Schmid. I enjoyed this talk because the speaker knew how to get his message across. The talk had the right technical level and was also very informative. I learned new things about Hibernate optimization and hopefully I will get hold of the slides. I would like to study some chapters (e.g about testing environments) in more detail.
The second talk was given by Christoph Schuler on “Realizing Cost Efficient J2EE AJAX-Web-Clients for Business Applications”. This talk was quite disappointing due to several reasons: the presenter’s English was not good enough to convey more information than one could gain from the slides. The demo would have been interesting but there were two major stumbling blocks: first the demo seemed to have no script and therefore was pretty arbitrary and secondly, there were too many network problems and crashes. Demos without a script and a backup tend to be a recipe for disaster. Last but not least after the talk I was still wondering what they really did to achieve cost efficiency for AJAX.
Let me conclude this blog entry with a few words about the conference. In the beginning I was a little bit skeptical about yet another Java conference. Today I can say that Jazoon is convincing. Almost everything is well done and makes a professional impression. I especially like the conference design, starting with the web page and flyer down to the give-aways like bag and T-shirt. Apropos T-shirt, finally a conference T-shirt that fits! Unlike the American T-shirts where you tend to get lost when putting them on. Last but not least, the location is great.
Like JavaPolis the venue is a multiplex cinema with great projection, sound and extremely comfortable seating. Unlike JavaPolis, it is not in the middle of nowhere but part of a large and stylish shopping center, not far away from downtown Zurich and easily reachable by public transport. Unfortunately, attendance seems to be light. It would have deserved a lot more. However, I am convinced that word-of-mouth will attract more visitors next year.
