Originally posted by Tom Henricksen:
Bruce Tate was a great presenter. I like his honest approach.
Bruce spoke at our local
Java Users Group meeting the other night but he decided not to do his planned presentation on persistence frameworks. Instead, he launched into an hour and a half long review of the persistence landscape, the history of the different choices like JDBC-POJO, Toplink,
J2EE BMP and CMP, JDO, and Hibernate, among others and his thoughts on where it was all heading. I was a little disappointed because I was hoping he'd talk more about the practical aspects of JDO and Hibernate and because I didn't win a door prize, one of which was free admission to No Fluff Just Stuff. It looks like they do have a lot of stuff going on though, with presentations by Dave Thomas, Bob Martin, Jason Hunter and others.