Today, we attended the Sun Tech Days Conference at the Makati Shangrila. Aside from the great food and freebies, I enjoyed the whole experience. There were several things I learned during the second day of the 3-day conference. Some things I’ve learned: (1) Java 6 has some nice features. (2) Grails is cool, but not necessarily great. More on this after the jump.

Has anyone ever tried looking at OSWorkflow recently? It is unfortunate that this OpenSymphony project has been shelved. However, I found value in this lightweight workflow tool — for one, being lightweight makes it simple and easy to work with, plus, integration with Spring and Hibernate is readily available. However, since OSWorkflow stopped development, there [...]