Checking in from AjaxWorld East

Just a quick update from the conference (which is now over). I gave my talk at the AjaxWorld East 2008 and got some interesting reactions. 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.

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.