I just came back from SpringOne. We had a great show again this year in Antwerp. We had about 400 attendees and about 30 highly technical session, from about just about the same number of people from SpringSource.

The second day (today) had a bit of a SpringSource Application Platform focus. So far the introduction of the Application Platform is going really well. People are very enthusiastic about it, especially when they see how much the provisioning features already offered through OSGi and the enhancements we’ve made and by the tooling help remove complexity when developing.

I’m sure this thing is going to have a great future.

Other than that, I had a blast speaking with everybody again. Not just my colleagues, but also the community members. It’s always very nice to talk to the people actually using the technologies we provide in anger. Thanks guys, for making this a success!

I just arrived back home. I’m going to have to do a bunch of laundry and get myself ready for tomorrow night. I’m driving to Italy tomorrow to start doing some construction on the house there early next week. I’m actually leaving Utrecht around 5′ish or 6′ish and will probably be on the road when the Dutch match is on…