JBoss Portal @ Rotterdam JBug

The Rotterdam JBug is happening June 20th, Thomas and myself will be there to talk about Portlet 2.0 and the upcoming JBoss Portal 2.7 release. We'll give also a quick overview of the future releases.

The Benelux JBoss User Group is organizing an event on Friday June 20th 2008. There will be plenty of presentations:

• JBoss Portal - Julien Viet and Thomas Heute - JBoss
• Hibernate Search - Emmanuel Bernard - JBoss
• Woman in IT - (special guest presentation) Clara Ko and Linda van der Pal - jduchess.org
• JBoss Drools - Kris Verlaenen - JBoss

Here is more information, it's free of course but you need to register.

JBoss Portal talk at Austin JUG

I will be giving a presentation and demo of JBoss Portal at Austin JUG on March 25.

The talk starts at 7:00 PM. It's free to everybody so if you are in the neighborhood, please feel free to stop by. See you there.

Portlet 2 talk at OpenExpo in Bern

Next week I'll talk at the OpenExpo conference in Bern about the Portlet 2.0 specification.

You can get free passes on the OpenExpo website and my slot is on Thursday 13 at 11:50 am.

See you there!

JBoss World slides available

The JBoss World web site now provides the slides of the talks that were given there. You can now get our slides about JBoss Portal and Portlet 2.0 presentations.

Enjoy!

JBoss World day 1

Yesterday was the first JBoss World day.

I had the chance to go on stage during the keynote, invited by our CTO Sacha Labourey to make a little (but working) demo of JBoss Portal 2.6.4. My goal was to show to the audience the current JBoss Portal product and to get the following message out:

• JBoss Portal 2.6.4 just released
• JBoss Portlet Container 2.0 Beta, an implementation of the Portlet 2.0 spec (will be released tomorrow, more to come, stay tuned)
• JBoss Portlet Bridge to make the integration of JSF/RF/Seam apps in JBoss Portal

Right now I am sitting at Thomas session about JBoss Portal. 

My talk is tomorrow morning at 9 AM and you don't want to miss it if you are present and want to hear about Portlet 2.0. I hope to see you there!

See you at JBoss World

A few of us will represent the JBoss Portal team at the upcoming JBoss World next week. Thomas and I will be on stage to talk about portal technology and Sohil will talk about his favorite pet named SSO.

I will present and demo the new features of the upcoming Portlet 2.0 specification. I intent to cover the major new features of the spec and will explain how they can be leveraged for building applications with concrete use cases. I will also detail the integration of the spec in our mainstream JBoss Portal 2.x product.

Thomas will present and demo a brand new spin-off project showing integration of in-house technologies. He will also explain the key concepts of JBoss Portal.

As in each JBoss World conference we will unveil surprises for you and be available to talk with you during the whole event. We will probably wear the new T-shirts we designed for JavaPolis last year with the new logos, so it should not be hard to recognize us.

See you there...

JBoss Portal @ Solutions Linux 2008 - Paris

Next JBoss Portal talk will be held in Paris for the "OpenSource Solutions Linux" show !

It will be on January 30th 3:00pm to 3:45pm. So if you are around and understand French, please join the conf, and if you don't understand French, it's all free so it's the perfect opportunity to learn it on the field ;)

There will be other sessions on JBoss/Red Hat products, check out the agenda for the Red Hat conference.

It's free to attend but you need to register on their website.

I hope to see some of you there !

JBoss Portal @ JBoss World 2008 - Orlando

First, happy new year ! I hope we will all spend a great 2008.

For a start, we will have three talks about and around JBoss Portal at JBoss World in Orlando on February 13-15th.
If you plan to come you will be able to attend:

• Introduction to JBoss Portal I will explain what is JBoss Portal (and portal frameworks in general), and the challenges solved by this framework
• What's New in Portlet 2.0 Julien will present the successor of the JSR-168 spec and the benefits of this new specification.
• JBoss Portal How-To Guide Last but not least Peter Johnson from Unisys will give a presentation of JBoss Portal. He will explain how to customize JBoss Portal to your specific needs. It sure will be very interested to attend and I definitely plan to listen carefully to that one :)

There are other interesting topics of course, like this case study about EJB3 + JSF + Seam + RichFaces introductions to EJB3, jBPM, Seam... The whole agenda is available here.

Of course if you plan to attend, let us know (thomas.heute@jboss.com) and we can also have informal discussions (along with Julien our beloved project leader) for the benefits of all.

Meet The JBoss Portal Foosball team at JavaPolis

The JBoss Portal Foosball team will be at the Red Hat booth during the JavaPolis conference, come and challenge us !

Meet JBoss Portal developers at Javapolis

Julien Viet and I will be at Javapolis '07 in Belgium. We have no formal talks planned, we just go for fun. If you happen to be there and want to discuss, share ideas or simply offer us a drink, please come see us or ask for us at the JBoss booth , you can also recognize us because we will be wearing specially made JBoss Portal t-shirts!

We are eager to hear and discuss about how you use JBoss Portal, what major issues you faced, what could be improved in your opinion or let us explain you about the product or anything related (good or bad) and even unrelated. We will also accept Christmas gifts, or any other kind of gift.

If you happen to live in Belgium but have no access to Javapolis we can also meet outside. You can contact me at thomas.heute@jboss.com.

(PS: We'll also be at JBoss World in Orlando in February, but i will come back in more details about this)

See you there !

JBoss Portal talk in San Diego, CA on May 11th

If you attend the Red Hat Summit show this week, I will be there for a talk on JBoss Portal.
I came up with the following title: "Leveraging an Open Source Portal Framework
for the integration of Web Applications", the abstract is almost shorter than the title itself.

Anyway, I will introduce portals solutions in general, what does it do, what are their responsibilities... Then I will spend some time on JBoss Portal 2.6 and the features we provide

I will also be present on the booth during all the week, so if you want to discuss about JBoss Portal, come over ! I will wear a specially designed JBoss Portal T-shirt for the first day ;-)

Again, if you are coming to the Red Hat Summit conference this week, my time slot is on Friday May 11th 1:45pm-2:45pm. Here is the full agenda.

For those of you who will be there, I hope to talk to you !