Looks like the conference season is going full throttle again. Yours truly will be on display, doing Cocoon introductions and workshops, during the following three events:
BeJug Web Development workshop at the Business Faculty Club (Neder-over-Heembeek, near Brussels), March 4th
LogOn XML Briefing in Brussels, fall 2004 (postponed because of overlap with CeBit)
XML Europe in Amsterdam, April 19-21st (exact day not known yet)
Last week, I also did a small presentation for a post-academic course on XML. Cocoon with Woody and Flow are real eye-catchers for webappdev grown-ups. During the break and after the presentation, I got intrigued questions from some students which had been looking at ways to build a web front-end for their J2EE back-ends, and had been evaluating several frameworks already. Things which they were really interested in were continuations instead of painful state and session management, and strong typing and validation for forms.