Coté talks with Interface21’s Rod Johnson and Neelan Choksi about new features in Spring (Web Flow JSF integration, Java annotations, and Spring Batch), the support that Interface21 provides, and then Rod’s thoughts on the future of Java middleware and application servers.

Mik Kersten and Cote talk about writing IDE extentions for Java (in Eclipse, VisualStudio, and other IDEs. They then move on to a short discussion of the influence that Smalltalk has had on Eclipse, perhaps leading to the Eclipse-world as the further evolution of several Smalltalk ideas and styles.

James Governor talks with Sun CTO Bob Brewin about the realities of developers: working in multipule languages. They also discuss the recently released JavaFX Script, Spring’s increasingly importance in Java, and the future of Solaris.

James Governor talks with Sun’s Jeet Kaul on escaping the shackles of success. Avoiding suite dreams and stack-silos by fostering a participatory, inclusive, multi-language, open developer ecosystem at Sun. Java, open source, the Web, ruby, and container frameworks like OSGi.