Posting the previous entry made me realize I haven't blogged yet on the JavaPolis thingy last week. Here is my list of refreshing thoughts/hints initiated by one or the other:

• During a short corridor talk with Craig we contemplated the introduction of some new JSP-'scope' that we defined largely as bigger then a request, but smaller then a session. He called it TranscationScope while I refered to it as InteractionScope. This probably depends from your viewpoint, or else is hiding that there should be two :-)
• Jacek's work of the last 20 months is more then just impressive. I knew this already after XMLEurope this year, but then I missed his presentation. Seeing that I also got to see he 'en passant' came to define some efficient binary-compressed DOM (XML Infoset) format.
• Inside XMLBeans is a Cursor API that kinda looks like JSR173 and should guarantee some very flexible and high performant parsing.
• Apache JMeter has a proxy to record the URL-interaction to be re-run during test.
• A full presentation on it left me with the conviction that this is an enteresting book.
• During after-polis dinner Jacek made me swear I was going to read this as well.
• AOP is happening, together with the micro-container thingy I see how the EJB zealots are finally being confronted with the fact that the strict-EJB-mantra is maybe not going to make them completely happy after all.
• Stale and Scale. The web works well on large scale because proxy intermediates allow introduction of stale information. A pretty ReSTy observation to make IMHO.
• Any programming task that requires 100years of compuyting can be done in 14years of which the first 13 are about hanging out at the beach :-)
• Oracle still doesn't have a clue. -- The kenyote slot they got (or bought?) was the worst I've seen since ever. Utter waste of time.