In case you haven’t noticed or checked out what we’ve been doing with BAM, now might be a good time. BAM takes its inspiration from XMPP, but expands it into a fully-fledged enterprise message architecture. What this means for developers is that we’re presenting a much cleaner, easier, and more composable framework in which to write your message-based apps compared to SOA and JMS-style approaches. How do we know it’s cleaner and easier? We’re using it ourselves as the basis for our next-generation of Resin for advanced clustering features, remote deployment, and even JMS. This being said, BAM is still in development so it might take a couple of releases before we declare it stable.

If you’re interested in checking out BAM, come on out to the Silicon Valley Code Camp this Saturday to see me talk about it.

The Silicon Valley Code Camp is coming up in just under 3 weeks and they need to figure out how big of a room to assign to each talk. If you’re coming to the Quercus and/or BAM talks, please go and let them know your interest on this page: Caucho Sessions. That way we won’t have to worry about not having enough seats.

You might have noticed that posts slowed down here after my talk at JavaZone, which is because I took some time off to see Scandinavia. But I’m back now and getting ready for even more upcoming events! Just a quick review:

1. San Francisco Java Meetup - I’ll be speaking here again, this time about Resin’s OSGi container implementation, as well as general OSGi issues along with fellow Java Meetup regular, Andrew Headrick. This is just one week away on Monday, Oct 6 at 6:30. The signups are full right now, but keep an eye on the page in case anyone drops out…
2. Resin Administration Training - There are still a couple of spots left for this course, so sign up ASAP to guarantee your seat. I’ll be teaching this at Marakana’s facility in San Francisco on October 22-24. It should be an action packed 3 days!
3. Silicon Valley Code Camp - This informal, but highly technical conference is growing by leaps and bounds. With already over 500 signups, I expect the Code Camp to be a ton of fun and very successful. I’ll be speaking on Quercus and BAM, so stop by for those and the other speakers’ talks on Nov 8 & 9 at Foothill College.
4. Devoxx - You might know this as JavaPolis or briefly JaVoxx, but the newly renamed Devoxx is still the same great conference that attracts developers from all over the world. It will be held Dec 8-12 in Antwerp, Belgium. I’ll be giving a talk there and Caucho is a plugin partner, so look for us on the convention floor as well.