I’m in Las Vegas attending a Java Server Symposium and it’s really amazing. The speakers have mostly been really good, and the topics and information has been great as well. I’ve started a list of stuff that I want to look at more, and so far it reads:

Annotations, JSF integration tools Spring, Webworks, SEAM, i18n messages, crazybob.org, Apache’s Maven, RIFE, Hivemind, Cocoon, Shale/Clay, Tapestry, Java Studio Creator 2, JSON, Greasemonkey, JAX 2 and Jax WS, Apollo and Avalon.

And that’s just the first day.

The stuff about AJAX has been the best so far. The first AJAX talk today showed how they could use AJAX, client side only, to implement a very basic Google Maps application in < 200 lines of code. Wow.

More as my brain unwinds.

Oh, and apparently you can gamble here?

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