Mik,
I dont remember the slides now so i downloaded from JAXIndia site (i have the link in my post too) but they are just representative slides not the ones used in the presentations. If you could send me the slides at angraze/at\gmail.com i can tell you about parts of content which looked like marketing stuff to me.

> Connectors for OSS products like Bugzilla, Trac,
> Ant, Spring, SVN, CVS etc apart from quite a few
> for commercial tools from vendors like Telelogic, BEA,
> Atlassian etc.

Correction: please note that connectors for Spring, Telelogic and BEA have not been released. I think that there was some confusion with a slide that listed vendors of relevant technologies and I will add text to the slide to disambiguate that.

The current list of connectors can be found at:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Extensions

To see other requested connectors or vote for yours see:

http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/bugs.php

Exactly. Never underestimate the tech savvy of the next generation But please understand that with Tasktop one of our driving design goals is making it easier to ensure your privacy better than the current browser do. For example, by default Firefox and IE save all of your browsing history and if you want to ensure there is no data in there that’s sensitive you end up deleting all of it. Tasktop instead only captures history per-task, making it easy to browse without concern of what’s being captured when no task is active. Instead of going through preference pages you can also inspect your task context and clear the history for a task with a single click. We have a deep appreciation for such privacy issues because we’ve had to solve them for Mylar, which supports sharing of task context.

> All others were mostly marketing stuff.

Ouch, I can’t stand talks that gravitate to marketing stuff! I tried to keep the content centered on the Task-Focused UI ideas and technology that underlie both Mylar and Tasktop. But I also wanted to show concrete examples of how Tasktop integrates with proprietary desktop and web technologies the way that Mylar integrates with Eclipse-based technology and perhaps ran long on demo portion? If you could let me know here or over email (mik /at\ tasktop.com) what pushed the marketing buttons that would be great.

Thanks

Looks like the WS Inter-op session was very basic (Also looks like you ran into Axis2 crowd !) Was hoping the session would involve discuusion of more concrete real-world interop problem cases and perhaps some dope on WS-* interop as well (a la Project Tango)

Unfortunate you couldn’t attend the Java Persistance session – that description had looked interesting.

Again, Polygot programming – was hoping there was more dough on practical cases when/how to go for multiple languages, how to manage interactions between the pieces, how to manage the code-base itself etc.

Overall looks like you had an interesting day…. Looking forward to tomorrow’s lowdown already

PS:
* Ref Tasktop can be used to “spy on young children’s adventures on internet” — Now there’s a worried parent speaking. Mate, your kid is going to know how to disable that even before you get around setting it up