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What are the popular JavaOne Sessions?
Since a few years, JavaOne attendees have to use an online tool called schedule builder in order to preregister for sessions at the conference. The first year this system was introduced, it was not required. If you registered prior to the session, you were guaranteed a seat. Otherwise, you had to wait in another queue, filling the empty seats.Today, schedule builder is a required tool, and I have the impression that people are organizing their conference earlier than last year.
At this moment, a number of sessions are already full. That gives an indication of what is hot in the Java Community.
Without pretending that I did a rigorous analysis on the full sessions, my impression is that WebServices, ESB, JavaFX and NetBeans are amongst the most popular topics at JavaOne. That doesn't come as a surprise to me.
I haven't seen full sessions on mobility yet, and that does surprise me. Last year, I didn't attend much mobility sessions, since I had the feeling that it was one year too early. This year, I will attend more mobility sessions. I want to know how we are doing with MSA, and how far we are from a developer-friendly end-to-end environment, in which developers can write mobile applications that run on the majority of the phones and that talk to a number of back-end systems.
People attend sessions that are of interest to them. I don't attend sessions that show how things are working, if I can see the working code on the Internet before the session. Also, I hardly attend sessions that show how things might look in two years. My goal at JavaOne is to attend those sessions that give me an indication of what might be of interest in the next 12 months.
Enterprise Java is pretty mature, and I am confident it will become better, more robust, easier to develop and easier to integrate. Java Mobile still has a longer way to go. But I am confident that we are getting there...
Have a look at the JavaOne website at http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp
