QCon Performance Seminar Filled

My performance tuning seminar at QCon in London next Tuesday is completely full. I'm looking forward to the session as well as attending as many sessions as I can. I'm still in the middle of preparing for my JavaONE lab and I have to admit that it has taken more prep than I anticipated. Sun wants everyone at JavaONE to have the Disney experience, everything scripted and not much room for exploration. I can understand this as I only have 2 hours and it is really impossible to stuff everything in that short a time slot and even more difficult to know what to toss. Heck, I have that problem with the one day tutorial session. So though I understand the need to script the experience, I can't say that I'm a fan of it. For one thing, people attending my tutorial at QCon will have opportunities to explore. Although it is organized and there is a core experience that is hard to escape from, the lab is far from scripted.

The other thing that has consumed quite a bit of my time is trying to get JavaScript to run in Apache JMeter. The Rino engine is integrated so it does run but..... Since JMeter doesn't have a browser window and many of the libraries are couple to widow, it has been a fun experience of tracking down and faking out references. At the moment I'm thinking of writing a stripped down version of the library that I need, not something that I was looking forward to.