JSF2 European Tour, Spring 2009

I just returned from presenting JSF2 at three wonderful conferences
in German speaking Europe.

• Mathema href="http://www.mathema.de/event/campus/">Frühjarcampus, in
  Erlangen, Germany

• Irian JSFDays in
  Vienna, Austria

• S&S Verlag JAX in Mainz, Germany

  My trip to JAX included a side trip to Michael
  Hütterman’s Köln Java
  User Group.

Mathema Füjahrcampus is a smaller and more intimate version of
the annual Herbstcampus put on
by Mathema in the Fall. I really loved the Füjahrcampus. Mathema
boss and noted author Oliver
Szymanski gave several sessions together, including a full day
workshop on JSF2. This was practice for my upcoming href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/javauniversity.jsp">Java
University Workshop on JSF 2. Thanks to Oliver, Michael, Nana and
the whole Mathema team for putting on a great conference.

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Audience during Ed and Martin’s JSF2 talk at JSFDays 2009

The annual JSFDays Conference in Vienna was a huge success, with over
250 attendees and many of the leading individuals in the JSF community
in attendence. For a conference mainly devoted to just to JSF, that’s a
good amount. I particularly enjoyed href="http://jsfdays.irian.at/main/speakers.jsf#speaker16">Hazem
Saleh’s presentation on GMaps4JSF, and href="http://jsfdays.irian.at/main/speakers.jsf#speaker32">Daniel
Lichtenberger’s presentation on his JSF enabled software stack
called Flexive. Very cool stuff.
The slides and videos for most of the sessions at JSFDays are available
at for a small fee at < href="http://jsfdays.irian.at/registration/preregindex.jsf">http://jsfdays.irian.at/registration/preregindex.jsf>.

The annual JAX conference is the largest non-academic software
development conference in Germany. I’d never had the pleasure of
attending before, and it was really excellent. S&S has been running JAX
since 2001 and they really have the conference thing down. This year
there was one “JSF Day” during the conference proper, and a
“JSF Experts Day” the next day after the conference. Thanks
to Andy Bosch and Matthias Weßendorf; for organizing these days.
It looks like the slides from the JSF Experts Day are available at
< href="http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/ccm_jsf_fr">http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/ccm_jsf_fr>,
though that site may be for registrants only.

I’ve taken the JSF2 presentation that Martin and I gave at JAX and modified it slightly to make it available at <https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/presentations/jsf2-complete-tour.odp> and <https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/presentations/jsf2-complete-tour.pdf>.

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