I am currently attending the Devoxx Conference in Antwerp, the largest gathering of Java developers this side of the pond. I was last here in 2005 – a memorable conference for me as in one day I was exposed to JSF and the announcement of the donation by Oracle of Trinidad to Apache MyFaces as well as an introduction to JPA (and EJB 3.0) by Mike Keith. These two sessions helped shaped a lot of what happened in my professional life ever since.

So here I was this morning, expecting another life altering event. (more…)