Re: wrap up from the software summit

From: Bill Dudney (bdudne..ac.com)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2006 - 16:42:17 EDT

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    Andrus,

    I added a news item but I don't know how to update the home page.

    Info appreciated.

    Thanks,

    -bd-

    On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Bill Dudney wrote:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > Just wanted to let you all know about last week..the software
    > summit (www.softwaresummit.com).
    >
    > I presented;
    >
    > http://bill.dudney.net/roller/resources/bill/Cayenne.pdf
    >
    > at the conference.
    >
    > There were about 600 people there and about 60 or 70 made it to one
    > of the talks I did on Cayenne. Generally everyone liked the idea of
    > Cayenne, there was a broad range of experience with R/O mapping,
    > some had done hibernate but many were doing straight JDBC or
    > iBatis. The JDBC'ers were very impressed with Cayenne, and the
    > hibernater's were pumped about the modeler :-)
    >
    > Over all Cayenne was well received and I hope to see at least a
    > little of an uptick in the user list and maybe a new developer or two.
    >
    > A couple of specific observations;
    >
    > 1) JPA support was high on many folks list of stuff that they
    > wanted to see.
    > 2) One of the guys at the show backed up cayenne modeler to his 500
    > + table oracle db and the modeler pulled in all the metadata
    > flawlessly. He was quite impressed!
    > 3) A lot of people still don't get the R/O thing. I was surprised
    > at the # of folks using iBatis to manage complex object graphs and
    > essentially re-implementing the relationship handling code on top
    > of iBatis.
    >
    > If you have any notes or comments on the preso please feel free to
    > send them to me. I'll be updating the preso and giving it again I'm
    > sure. On that note it is licensed under creative commons so feel
    > free to use it at your local JUG or whatever to spread the word
    > about Cayenne.
    >
    > TTFN,
    >
    > -bd-



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