tech Gerd Saurer on 21 Nov 2008 09:10 pm
Eclipse Summit 2008 Day2
The second day of the Eclipse Summit started wit the Keynote held by David Wood a Symbian Veteran. As you might kow Symbian is getting to be pulished under The Eclipse Public License. He spoke about the power of new devices and how they will become much smarter in the future. He pointed out some issues with the different Licenses (GPL, Eclipse, ..) and that they prosue different goals.
SMILA was the second talk I attended that day. The framework is still in the incubator of the Eclipse projects. It tries to build an backed Architecture for searching. They are using JMS to divide the crawler from the indexing logic. All of the components can be changed. For indexing and converting they are using a BPEL engine tho be able to extend the functionallity easily. The project looks nice and may be we will try the framwork in the future for one of our products. At the moment there are no sources or binaries available so we will have to wait to evaluate it.
The rest of the day I attended some of the talks for a while but most of the time i used for discussions with members of the community.
The last talk I was interested in was about BIRT the well known Reporting engine in JAVA. It was nice to see some of the new features and I got some impressions how I will be able to integrat this into our current projecte where a little more than just reporting is neede.
In the end I have to say that it was really a good decision to go there even if I was not able to prepare me for the conference because of the short -term decision. Anyway I hope that I will be able to attend the EclipseCon next year.
Thanks for Rupert he posted the Link to the presentations and resources of the conference as comment in my last posting.
