JavaOne 2008 : Tuscany and SCA coverage, and the Brazilian community off course...

It was very good to see a lot of SOA and SCA coverage at JavaOne 2008, there was at least couple sessions about these topics each day, and several were mentioning Apache Tuscany.

Also, couple good feedback worth quoting from the blogsphere :

Michael Meehan wrote:

JavaOne report: Apache Tuscany, can SOA be this easy?

In front of a packed room of a few hundred developers at the 2008 JavaOne conference yesterday, IBM’s Jean-Sebastien Delfino gave a presentation of the Apache Tuscany project, an open source implementation of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard. SCA is designed to facilitate a standard method of constructing, assembling and developing composite services and the Tuscany implementation (currently in version 1.2) looks to be ridiculously easy to use.

One of the mantras in the SOA space is that it’s hard to do. Sure enough, enterprise architecture and end-to-end governance come with a high degree of difficulty, but Tuscany seemingly has made it a snap to stitch together a composite, Web-based service. According to Delfino, the idea is to abstract away the plumbing details using HTML-style annotations and map out the business logic of the service.

Jeff Anderson wrote:

The Highlights of SCA at JavaWorld 2008

Tuscany is a great open source implementation of SCA, with real-world production implementations
Jean-Sebastien Delfino and Mario Antollini gave a incredible presentation on Tuscany my favorite open source implementation of SCA. The highlight of the presentation (IMHO) was when Jean-Sebastien showed had easily extend the SCA specification to include mashups/Web 2.0 component creation. My opinion this is one of the highest values of SCA, a truly comprehensive component model that spans technologies, from simple AJAX/ATOM components to more complex WSDL/SOAP style services. Brilliant.
This session really showed how easy it was to make services, or components of any nature using SCA

As for the Brazilian community, they showed up again !!! We even had representatives from the Brazilian Government discussing the engagement of the Brazilian government in consuming and producing open source software, see panel abstract below :

PAN-7063: Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS): Use and Production by the Brazilian Government

The Brazilian government has been a pioneer in the use and production of free and open-source software (FOSS). This initiative is best represented by the Brazilian Public Software Portal (BPSP), a national web site that makes available the free and open-source software produced by the government and offers several services for the local FOSS community. This presentation by the government officials who are implementing this large initiative shows how the adoption of free software, such as Java™ technology-based applications and much more, was crucial to making not only the use but especially the development of new software in the government possible. The session also shows the results of the initiatives, presenting some of the amazing software solutions now available to users worldwide, and discusses some of the next steps planned by the Brazilian government.

And below, couple Brazilian dudes posing for pictures...