JavaOne ’07 – A Subtle Agile Architecture Statement

JavaOne is an event of persistence. JavaOne’s staying power is exhibited by this conference including a variety technologies from mobility, robotics to the enterprise while staying the course for over 10 years.

Agility in Data and Architecture

As I entered the Moscone center, you could not help notice the massive “” sign. This sign is an interesting remark on XML technology and proves to be key to the minds of Sun and their partners. Many customers asked me about the XML support within DB2 and found the pureXML story impressive.

Interesting to note JavaOne, includes topics in Web 2.0(next generation web) such as:

- Ruby on Rails
- Python
- JavaScript programming language

Noting that these technologies are something Microsoft has been talking about. These languages are considered to foster Agile development. Staying Agile in your architecture/technology and skills are concepts presented by Sun and Microsoft and of course IBM. I think that more possibilities for architecture are opening up to with these announcements. "Staying agile in data and application architecture" is a definitely message that resonated with this event.