ApacheCon US talks scheduled

I submitted three talks for ApacheCon US this year and one of them has been accepted and one has been scheduled as a fallback in case they need to fill a slot. My accepted talk is titled “ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, Camel, and CXF – An integration toolbox” and will be about using all three of these projects together inside of ServiceMix ESB. Its going to be a tight schedule talking about all of these in less than one hour but I have done almost this much before so with a little practice I think I can get done in time for some questions.
My Fallback talk is titled “Enterprise class integration with Apache ServiceMix 4.0″ and this was the one I was really hoping to get accepted. This talk is about using ServiceMix ESB in large scale environments (clustered) with load balanacing and failure scenarios. I will also throw in some simple examples of integrating with things such as IBM MQSeries/WebSphere MQ, maybe throw in some Tibco, and whatever else seems “Enterprisey” at the time.
ApacheCon US is in New Orleans this year in November, so it should be a good time. I am looking forward to some good cajun food and a some good times!

Try ServiceMix 4!

ServiceMix 4 is built on an all new OSGi architecture and contains major enhancements to the underlying container. There have been several milestone releases but we need more feedback from the community as we get closer to a release. I encourage anyone currently using or interested in ServiceMix to try out the new ServiceMix 4 Milestone 3 release and give us some feedback, scream at us, praise it, or whatever your initial reaction is. This release is a fairly stable build and should serve as a good test for anyone evaluating ServiceMix and deciding to go with version 3 or 4. Documentation is somewhat lean but once we get some feedback and things are solid we can add the necessary docs. Come on, you know you want to try it. Go ahead and give it a shot!

Sony Ericsson K850 for $299 at JavaOne

I’m not a big iPhone fan, mainly because I insist that all of my gadgets have some form of Java hackability (I know, hackability isn’t a real word). So I have been looking around for a long time for a good phone with Java support and I have always been interested in the Sony Ericsson K850 with the JP-8 Java support. In lieu of a full on Android based phone that I can stuff in my pocket next week, I think I am going to take them up on their offer and buy an unlocked K850 for $299 at JavaOne next week.

If anyone has any other ideas to get some Java lovin’ on my phone I am open to suggestions.