I visited Antwerp, a northern Belgian city, in order to attend to the Javapolis 2005 Conference.
What really impressed me is the fact that there were so many sessions about the new AJAX technology, a new way to build fast & effective features on web pages. It is actually a new trend on web application developing.
You can update dynamically contents of a web page without having to refresh the whole page. This can be done using JavaScript sending XMLHttpRequests in order to load data from the server and push it back to the cache of the browser by updating only specific items/areas of the web page. This makes the web application faster and more responsive to user actions.
I really liked also the presentation of Waldo Smeets. The new Flex Enterprise Services of Adobe are really promising.
Some details about the conference:
- 2,100+ attendees from 43 countries
- 50% more attendees than last year
- Biggest Java event in Europe
- Second biggest Java event after JavaOne