I've been to the last eight JavaOne Conferences in San Francisco, and I must admit I'm looking forward to this one more so than in past years. Overall, I'm expecting much of the usual stuff: lots of developers, a full Pavilion floor, and sessions filled with great technical detail. But what I'm looking forward to this year is the boost that Java University has gotten.
Java University has always been packed with helpful, thorough instruction, but this year it has more courses and includes more than just Java technology. As anyone involved in web development knows, you can't always do it all with Java technology alone. So, I'm glad to see that Sun has also included a lot of information for developers on topics such as:
Of course, there is also a heck of a lot you can do on the web and on the desktop with Java technology and tools, and Java University has many courses to help developers in these areas as well:
- Filthy Rich Clients (great stuff you can do with Swing)
- Java ME and Mobil Devices
- Java Persistence API
- Secure Java Web Services
And there is a whole lot more for developers to benefit from at Java University. In the past, I have found that the courses in Java University were handled well as far as getting everyone into the rooms, which are very large, presenting the technical materials, which included handout printed materials and presentations on the huge screens, and the speakers were animated. I expect the same and more this year.
For those of you who can't make the JavaOne Conference this year, there will be many writers from Sun covering the sessions and experiences. I'll be writing about Java University for the JavaOne Today daily paper, as well as blogging about it and sessions here.
No matter whether you are at the conference or not, be sure to watch this space as we share the conference experience and deal out technical information as we can. It should be a really great conference this year.
Dana Nourie, Sun Microsystems staff writer for java.sun.com
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