Vince Bonfanti hosted a Birds of a Feather session at cf.Objective(), he officially unveiled the Open BlueDragon project.

He walked the (fairly large) audience through downloading and running the binary distribution of OpenBD on both Tomcat and JBoss and noted that “ready-to-run” distributions will also be available (Jetty-based initially, with Amazon EC2 and VMWare images following soon).

This was followed by open Q&A for a while and then he showed the source code in Eclipse and demonstrated how to build and run OpenBD from source.

He ran into a bug - triggered by a bad environment setting - and used the step debugger to identify the problem in just a few minutes, then fixed the code and rebuilt and successfully ran the project. I think that was very persuasive for several folks in the audience.

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