This year's JavaOne was really a showcase for the Brazil Healthcare Java projects. Scott McNealy had an emotional talk preaching for a technology that could save lives. Fabiane Nardon won a Duke award for that project and the leader of the Brazilian user group, Bruno Souza, was looking like the king of the conference with his Brazilian flag made coat. I could not imagine Stephan dressed with a Belgian flag at the next Javapolis, maybe we can give him a try at our next workshop? Brazil was also showing up in several BOFs and I thought it was worth of interest to meet Fabiane. She gaves me more information about this project. In few words, it was all about creating a big CRM system for Brazilian citizens. This system is used by both public and private healthcare organizations in several Brazilian cities right now and is expanding across the country. Every city has its own database and application server. Replication of the citizen?s data from cities to cities is automated.

For public agencies, applications are pure http/html-based and require a less powerful computer than private companies who use a Flash-based rich internet application. Fabiane told us that Flash was much sexier to 'sell' to private companies. I know a certain Jo Wyns who will have a big smile when reading this. At our previous Rich Client workshop, Jo was stating exactly the same.

In both cases, the business logic is located on the server and is residing in EJBs, it is accessed either through Flash remoting and a server side servlet for the Flash application and through RMI for the web-based application. In total the system contains 2.5 million lines of code but around half of this code was generated.

This talk with Fabiane was very interesting, not only because she was a nice-looking women, I mean the architecture level of the thing.

That's a little bit the kind of person/talk I would like to invite for the Javapolis 2005 architecture track.