I think the whole theme of the conference has been based mainly around Grid, with different parties trying to push their technology as the best fit for realising grid-based computing. We had four different technologies (some of them I would say can complement each other) claming to be grid-enablers.

I have got some interesting views of comparing spaces and JMS, which I will cover later.

The panel discussion in the morning was led by Cedric, Wayne Beaton, Bruce Tate and Eric Doernenburg. The panel discussed a lot of topics related to development including,

Heinz's session was quite refreshing in increasing developer productivity. I think I will try to cover the whole of Heinz's session in another blog by the end of this weekend. It does deserve an entry on its own.

John Davies from C24 gave a session on a case study on the use of grid in investment banking. It started with a lot of promise in terms of real world examples of using grid-enabled technologies. Didn't cover much in the end. As I said earlier, I have got an interesting entry coming up comparing JMS and spaces, I warn you guys, it is going to be a bit controversial :-)

James presented a nice session on ActiveMQ. Covered some of the advanced features. He was quite excited about message groups. We already use that at work using Oracle AQ's support for correlation ids in messages. Interacting with a JMS server from the telnet console was pretty cool. Other features included,

Overall the conference was a nice experience. Without naming names, I thought some technologies were overly hyped up. All in all, TSS did a very good job organizing the conference.