Bill Dudney and I are both speaking at the Colorado Software Summit this week. Bill is speaking about Cayenne and Ajax+JSF, while I'm speaking on AppFuse and Migrating from Struts 1 to Struts 2.

When we arrived, we had great weather up here and last night it got even better.

I attended a fair amount of sessions at this show, you can search my blog for "css 2006" to see my posts from the show.

This week, I'm on the road speaking at the Spring Forward 2006 Conference. I've posted a number of blog entries on raibledesigns.com with my presentations, as well as notes from attending other sessions.

• Spring Forward 2006 - The Keynote
• Spring 2.0 Kickstart Presentation
• Using the Java Persistence API with Mike Keith and Patrick Linskey
• Comparing Web Frameworks Presentation

Spring 2.0 is definitely hot right now. I've updated our courses for it, as well as AppFuse and Equinox. Both applications have their updates in source control, not in current releases.

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History

Founded in 1999, Virtuas is a world-class knowledge enablement organization providing expert analysis, assessment, education, and implementation of enterprise-ready open source software.

Over the last decade, Open Source Software (OSS) has evolved into a stable, integral part of IT strategies worldwide. Many organizations interested in implementing an open source strategy hesitate to do so without the support of a trusted partner to guide them through all components of open source implementation. Virtuas Solutions is that trusted partner.

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About Virtuas Open Source Solutions

Virtuas Open Source Solutions is the premier provider of enterprise-level professional services for widely adopted open source middleware technologies such as Apache Geronimo, Spring, Apache Tomcat, AppFuse, Hibernate, and other emerging technologies such as Maven, Tapestry, Struts A2, MyFaces, and a host of others. Since 1999, Virtuas Open Source Solutions has provided the Global 2000 with world-class enterprise software solutions.

For more detailed information about our company, please visit the following pages:

• Methodology & History

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Novell, Inc. delivers Software for the Open Enterprise™. With more than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure, and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With more than 20 years of experience, 5,000 employees and 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating environment while reducing cost.

 
World-Class Open Source Middleware Professional Services

Virtuas provides a comprehensive range of professional services surrounding Apache Geronimo, Apache Tomcat, the Spring Framework, Hibernate, AppFuse and many other emerging, enterprise-ready open source projects.

Whether your organization wants to accelerate and enhance the open source adoption and migration process or seeks customized consulting, training and technical support, you can be assured that Virtuas Open Source Solutions has the experts to assist your development team in achieving success.

 
Emerging Technologies

In addition to our other practices, Virtuas also constantly seeks out imminently emerging open source technologies. Many of these emerging technologies are rapidly building their communities and are at the cusps of enterprise-wide adoption.

Virtuas is here to help these emerging technologies reach their full potential and we offer the same level of expertise for these as we do for technologies that are already widely adopted across the enterprise. Services we provide around the emerging technologies listed below include:

 
The Hibernate Project

Hibernate is a powerful, high-performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate allows users to develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom, including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate also allows for express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL) as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API. To learn more about the Hibernate open source project, visit: http://www.hibernate.org.

 
The AppFuse Project

AppFuse is an open source application used to "kickstart" web application development, eliminating countless hours of setup and integration time. AppFuse prompts users for the open source tools and frameworks desired and then it actually creates the project. In addition, AppFuse features many enterprise-ready open source technologies such as Spring Framework, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate, MySQL, and a host of others. Visit http://appfuse.org
for more specifics on this open source project.