Just a quick update from the latest AJAXWorld conference (which is now over). I gave my talk at AJAXWorld East 2008 and got some interesting reactions. Met a lot of cool folks, put some faces to names, got to sit on a panel with Douglas Crockford. Cool beans. More next week.

The talk really had three parts.

1. What is GWT and how do you use it?
2. How do I resurface an existing J2EE app?
3. Where are all of the alligators?

There is always a risk that someone or other feels that too little or too much time is spent in one part or the other. In fact, while converting a JSP to produce JSON so it could be consumed by the GWT client app, I had one person raise their hand and as "what does this have to do with GWT."

So, in the end, I had half the people nodding their heads, yes, and the other half shaking their heads, no. I was peddling a very pragmatic approach, rather than a product or service, and that might have thrown some folks off.

AJAXWorld 2008 West Call for Papers Is Open! Submissions deadline: May 31, 2008 October's AJAXWorld Conference is already receiving higher-caliber submissions from all over the Rich Internet Applications, User eXperience & UI ecosphere. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is now open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives. Submissions featuring such use cases as well as on dozens of other RIA topics have already begun streaming in to AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West, being held in San Jose, CA, on October 20-22, 2008. Click here to submit your speaking proposal today !