JavaOne 2008 : Gee whiz mister, that's kinda neat.

I've been using VE for long enough that the "gee whiz" feeling has worn off, but seeing people react to the demos I did at JavaOne brought it all back.

There were a couple of features people responded to especially strongly. The simplicity of getting a model-driven application up and running was one of the biggies. I suspect people have been conditioned to think "model driven" means "long term benefits at the cost of a nasty short term learning curve". It was fun showing how you can going in just a couple of minutes.

Web developers liked the continuation[1]-based workflows that let you specify a complex linked set of interactions without having to do your own state management or routing, and everybody got a kick out of the "execute" button that lets you run the model even if you've just specified a couple of incomplete classes.

OK, evidently when I'm enthusiastic I write stuff that reads like a sales brochure, but if you can get past that definitely check out the continuations-based stuff. It means your web application code looks like ordinary desktop application code (do something, get some input, based on input decide to get more input, etc). It doesn't hit you how much easier that approach is until you have to go back to coding the usual way. It's probably worth a whole blog post just on that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Continuations_in_Web_development

Intelliun @ JavaOne 2008 (Continued)....

JavaOne 2008 is over and thanks to all the folks that visited us at our booth, it’s been a great success !

At the show, we’ve announced the release of The Virtual Enterprise 6.0 Beta (link to the press release). VE 6.0 is the latest generation of The Virtual Enterprise product suite, packed with a host of new features and enhancement(Press release). Response to our product features and demo at the booth has been terrific and it was great to see the interest and enthusiasm expressed by the developer community.

We had a lot of traffic at the booth and hopefully all of you had an opportunity to watch the demo and experience the simplicity and productivity offered by VE 6.0 in building enterprise class business applications and web services. In case any of you didn’t get a chance to see the demo in person, here is the link to the demo from our web site. The new beta release will be publicly available for download shortly – so keep an eye out for updates regarding that in the next few days.

Intelliun is now an official strategic partner of NetBeans ! We are quite excited to be a NetBeans partner and look forward to a mutually rewarding partnership between Intelliun and NetBeans. VE/Designer 6.0 is built on top of NetBeans 6.1 IDE and leverages many great features and extensibility offered by the NetBeans platform. If you were at CommunityOne on May 5, you might have seen our CEO, Iyad Jabri, giving a lightning talk on Service Oriented development using MDD during one of the lightening talk sessions.

In addition, Intelliun is now a member of OMG and I fully expect Intelliun to be involved and contribute to the model driven development initiatives undertaken by OMG moving forward.

Intelliun @ JaveOne 2008

The Intelliun team will be in Booth # 640 on the pavilion floor at the JavaOne 2008 conference, scheduled to to start on Tuesday (May 6, 2008). Please do stop by the booth and visit us if you are going to be at the conference this year. In addition to watching a demo on how to build business applications and web services in a matter of minutes using Model Driven Development, you might win some cool give aways !

Also, don't miss the lightning talk session on building service oriented business applications using model driven development by an Intelliun team member during CommunityOne sessions on Monday, May 5, 2008.