Today was the last day of EclipseCon. It was a really great conference for OSGi users with a broad selection of sessions for all interests.

Today we has a cool short talk from Nokia and Sprint about OSGi enabled mobile phones coming soon from Sprint. Neil Bartlett gave a interesting talk on security in OSGi/Eclipse RCP applications. Perhaps the highlight of the day was the session from BEA on their experience using OSGi technology in their mSA software. And we finished up the conference with an OSGi management session from ProSyst.

Wow! What a great conference. The EclipseCon organizer's were also very happy to have had the OSGi Developer Conference at EclipseCon and are very excited about doing this again next year. Me too. If you missed EclipseCon this year, start making plans to attend the OSGi Developer Conference at EclipseCon in 2008!

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Monday was tutorial day at EclipseCon. There were a number of OSGi related tutorials which were well attended. Building Service Oriented Bundle Architectures was an all day tutorial on bundle programming. The session had over 60 attendees and Peter Kriens was tapped to deliver the "keynote" for the day. The Spring and OSGi Combined short tutorial also has a great turnout. We had a full room with over 40 attendees. The attendees were great and asked lots of awesome questions.

Finally, there was a Server-side Equinox BOF at 8:45pm (!) that was standing room only. There are a lot of people using or interested in using OSGi in server-side uses. And to make the BOF perfect, some kind soul from Compuware appeared with a bucket full of ice-cold Corona beer (which is an appropriate beer choice since Compuware leads the Eclipse Corona project :-).

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