Let’s meet in Vienna again – JSFDays 2009

Last years JSFDays in Vienna have been a huge success. The organization was superb and the event definitely focused on JSF. This year the event will be bigger and contains now two tracks. One of them is focused on JSF while the second track has a larger enterprise Java focus. Check out the website.

With JSF 2 on the horizon you definitely should consider making the trip to Vienna. Several of the sessions for JSF will concentrate on that. And who could you tell better about JSF 2 than the guys that shaped it working for the Expert Group. And JSFDays will feature several expert Group members giving you the information from the source.

Let’s meet there and have some fun too. Vienna definitely is a city to enjoy, so consider staying for the weekend as well and discover its many features.

Already booked?

JSF Days 08 – almost over

To all those that forgot to come to Vienna: You definitely missed something really great.

3 days with many important people in the JSF ecospace (Kito: good definition of that) in a very relaxed context. Irian did a great job to organize this second JSFDays in a perfect way, which definitely helps to create this friendly mood.

For those not yet used to be able to get in “touch” with the great names of JSF were pleasently surprised how easy those persons behind the names are. This feature is definitely something I like in the JSF ecosphere. Despite being a difficult environment (todays webapp-development,…) JSF brings along a bunch of nice guys that are very approachable and helpfull. A great community. And this you can really feel here in Vienna at the JSFDays.

Almost a pity those 3 days are almost over… It will be a long time till JSFDays 2009.

The presentations will be available through Irian’s website. As soon as this happens I will report back.

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I did a presentation on Testing JSF applications and components. Although one of my laptops started to misbehave… it went quite well. I got some nice feedback, questions and hints and wait impatiently for the official feedback analysis.I concentrated on Selenium and JSFUnit.The preparation for this talk are also the reason for the long time since my last post… but it also gave me some input for further posts

Let’s meet in Vienna 2008

What started in 2006 in Munich as a improvised meeting has now it’s official successor. IRIAN Solutions Gmbh organizes the JSFDays 2008 in Vienna.

So let’s meet in Vienna next year in March. See you there.

JSF Usergroup CH Meeting #1 (slides)

Ed Burns also has an entry on this meeting and in his blog you can find the links to the presentations.

JSF Usergroup CH Meeting #1

A group of 18 people from Switzerland, Austria, Germany, America and Brazil met Thursday 29th June 2007 for a meeting to decide whether or not to found a JSF user group in Switzerland.

The interest in a JSF usergroup proves to be international.
Not only the international attendance, but also the feedback in the mailing lists and chat proves this.

First Ed Burns presented the possibilities of Scripting in the JSF context. The slides will be made available (when he comes back online). In a second presentation Ed showed us where the JSF spec’s will head.

To start the discussion on the foundation of the JSF Usergroup I showed some slides with ideas on this topic.

The discussion about the JSF Usergroup was intense and short. The decisions were taken very rapidly without objections:

• Yes, we want a JSF usergroup
• The best way is to organize as a Special Interest Group (SIG) under the umbrella of the Java Users Group Switzerland (JUGS)
• For the organisational aspects 4 Swiss and 1 Brazilian declared their availability.
• For presentations 4-5 Swiss and 3 “foreigners” volunteered.
• A possible subject for a second meeting:
  • “Coming out”: members present their actual experiences in short presentations

The discussion very quickly drifted towards technical issues.

After 3 hours the group decided to award the status of “JSFDays Europe 2007″ to the meeting and the mandatory photos were taken (with the participation of “Lovely” the famous black and white cow). You can find the pictures in my photo gallery.