Today is Thursday and this morning they announced the winners of the “RAD Race”:wiki.javapolis.com/confluenc… We weren’t one them. They chose 3 winners and the interesting bit was they all used “Oracle JDeveloper”:www.oracle.com/technolog… and 2 of them used other Oracle products.

How did the race go for us? Well, “here’s a picture”:http://wiki.javapolis.com/confluence/download/thumbnails/16915/jp05_day2_radrace_team.jpg :) (one of many). We had fun, learned a lot, did some things wrong, did some things right and I’ll definitely will be there next year!!

In case anyone wonders, we used Spring, Spring-rcp, hibernate3, eclipse, tomcat and mysql during the race.

On the speakers part, cause it’s not all RAD Race “@JavaPolis”:www.javapolis.com I saw (besides the keynotes of course):

• More Java Puzzles Neal Gafter and Joshua Bloch

• EJB3 Simplified Components Linda DeMichiel

• Service Data Objects Michael Rowley

• WebWork Jason Carreira

• Agile software development on large projects Johan Lybaert

• Spring Update Rod Johnson

• Extreme Swing Romain Guy

• JGoodies Karsten Lentzsch

• GlassFish Inderjeet Singh

• Maven 2.0 Vincent Massol

I had once again a great time being there!