Hey, I'm just done with the DevSummit conference in Stockholm, where I presented Qi4j. It went very well, and people are generally quite excited. It's fun to see that different people find different favourite features in it. Some more architecty folks like the explicit Module and Layer definitions, whereas others like the strong typing in concerns, and others crave the mixins. There's something for everyone it seems :-)
I've had lots of good discussions these past days with Dan North in particular, who was the first to point out that this isn't AOP. He hadn't see the current state so I went through all the terminology with him, and explained some of the vision we have with it. One thing that he immediately reacted on was that @ThisCompositeAs is way too long. Something like @Me, @Self or even @This would be better he thought. Any thoughts from you guys on this naming? We also discussed the topic of who would this appeal to first. David Leangen once said that it'll take 10 years for people to catch up. Dan's take was that people who are normally allowed to do exploratory work, as a strategy in big firms, might be checking it out. Anyone who is generally inclined to try out new things, either because of need or because of their inherent nature, would be interested. I also overheard a conversation with Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] who commented that it is in recessions that disruptive technologies really thrive, because people are looking for alternatives to make them more efficient. This, I think, is a very very important point. When I started Senselogic in 2002, and wrote the "first iteration" (so to speak) of these things it was precisely that need for something that could match the lack of resources (time+money+people) that was the main motivation. I also talked to some people about having built-in support for REST in Qi4j, and especially Dan gave me some good advice that I want to try out. Too early to talk about really, but it will be.. interesting :-) That's about it. Another great conference done. Now on with coding. /Rickard _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
