Can enterprises use Web2.0?

PUNE: 'XML may be verbose but it's here to stay', 'Stop writing infrastructure components', 'Can enterprises use Web2.0', 'Start-ups should think beyond Google', 'How to link AJAX and Web2.0', etc. These are just some of the thoughts discussed by technology experts, developers and industry members at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology in Pune.

The conference claimed to be the first of its kind on Java in India, given its technology focus sans marketing pitches.

Peter Thomas from Satyam made a case for Spring framework and how is technology antagonistic while illustrating JTrac architecture and talking about portability, easy unit testability, no annotations in case of Spring and features like message-driven POJOs, JPA support, simplified XML configuration option and Aspect J integration in Spring 2.0.

Janak Mulani pointed out problems like requirement of page-submit mode in AJAX, the peculiarity of page view when AJAX is meant for Asynchronous and the business angle for AJAX beyond the technological euphoria around it.

Jatender Singh from Persistent Systems talked about Ruby on Rails (ROR) and talked about Ruby being a pure-object-oriented language (even for numbers), with qualities of exception handling, iterations, blocks, principle of least surprise for programmer, Operator overloading, automated garbage collection, ability to use lot of libraries off-the-shelf, business-friendliness and Interactive ruby Shell. He also mentioned a JRuby project being incubated at Sun Microsystems and other success stories like Basecamp, Tadelists and

Fluxiom while focusing on the philosophy behind ROR that puts convention over configuration and emphasizing on not repeating oneself.

"With a participant count of 150 people, it was the first independent conference on Java to happen in India. We had nothing to compare with and no way to predict what the response would be like. Our sponsors - Oracle, Pramati, Microsoft, Persistent, SAS, BMC software and Canoo were supportive and understood that the core idea behind the event was to keep it focused on learning and on being vendor-neutral. So there was never any interference and the speakers also stayed well away from any pitches or promotions. It

was just technology all the way," says an enthused Harshad Oak, organizer of the event and co-founder of Rightrix.com.

The sessions also included topics like SOA, BPEL and Rules by Raghu Kodali, Do’s and Don'ts on Java Security by Atul Kahate who pointed out some mistakes often committed in enterprise Java applications. Janakiram MSV from Microsoft talked about interoperability between J2EE and .NET while Debu Panda from Oracle delved on EJB3, followed by Peter JTrac Thomas's session on Spring.

The conference also covered talks on Apache Geronimo by Kishore Kumar, the author of Pro Apache Geronimo and Oak's session on Groovy and Grails.

Mulani focused on RIA (Rich Internet Applications) alternatives and compared taking a Java Swing, HTML-JavaScript and a Flash based approach.

Sanjeeb Sahoo highlighted the differences between J2EE and Java EE. There was also a panel discussion on Ajax and Web2.0 and their adoption across enterprises, the value they bring to a web app, the successful ongoing Ajax projects and more. During this discussion the need for start-ups to think beyond selling to Google was also pointed out so that more creative ideas on enterprise applications of Web2.0 can be churned out.

The organizers are planning a 'QThreads.com Conference On Software Quality 2007' and the 'IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007' next.

Harshad Oak also owns python threads.com that focuses on software quality and python programming. He looks forward to building a new technology media and a new research territory ahead.

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