The Devoxx conference is around the corner (in just over a week) and will take place in Antwerp, Belgium as every year, only a bit earlier than usual (December was just too close to the Christmas holidays). This week-long conference runs as follows: the first two days are 3-hour sessions to go deeper into the technology (they're called University sessions). The regular conference starts on the third day and offers keynotes and 1-hour sessions. Devoxx also has "Tools in actions" (30-minute), "BOFs", Quickies (15-minute), white boards, and more.

First and foremost, the Wednesday Sun and Oracle keynotes should not be missed (or to be watched later on Parleys) :
• Java, the Platform for the Future - Steve Harris (Oracle)
• Java EE 6 and GlassFish V3: Evolution of a Platform - Roberto Chinnici and Ludo Champenois.

But there's a also long list of GlassFish and Sun-related session for this year's session :

University talks :
• Enhancing the JavaServer Faces 2.0 Component Model - Roger Kitain
• SOA, OpenESB and OpenSSO Programming with Passion - Sang Shin
• The Java EE 6 Platform University - Antonio Goncalves, Alexis MP

Sessions:
• JDK7 Update - Mark Reinhold
• The Java EE 6 Platform - Antonio Goncalves
• Writing Asynchronous Web application (Comet) using the Atmosphere Framework - Jean-Francois Arcand, Paul Sandoz
• Project Coin - Joe Darcy
• Using BTrace and DTrace to Instrument and Analyse Java Applications - Simon Ritter
• Enhancing the JavaServer Faces 2.0 Component Model - Roger Kitain
• Managing GlassFish on OpenSolaris - Simon Ritter
• The Modular Java Platform & Project Jigsaw - Mark Reinhold
• Deep dive on the Java EE 6 platform with GlassFish V3 - Roberto Chinnici, Ludo Champenois

BOFs:
• Grizzzly Servlet Container - Jean-Francois Arcand
• Update JDK 7 - Mark, Alex, and Brian
• The Modular Java Platform & Project JigSaw - Mark Reinhold, Alex Buckley

Quickies:
• Java EE 6 and OSGi. Ludo Champenois

See you there!

Uncle Bob is one of the grand names in Agile Development... and he is also now a Hudson fan -see the comments and his Screencast (thanks to Eric for the tip). Another fan is James Governor (from RedMonk); check his addendum on Hudson at the end of his Advice to Sun; he also reports that Dan @ Adobe is another fan.

And still more fans... check this Snapshot of a Whiteboard taken by Alexis earlier this week - Hudson is the #1 choice. Nice!

Are you a fan too? If so, vote for Hudson at the SOA Readers' Choice - as of right now Rational Functional Tester is #1 (see here for some background to how this happened).

Devoxx is only a week away and the GlassFish community will have a strong presence at this major European developer conference. There is no dedicated "GlassFish AppServer" session (too much of a product pitch?), but rather a series of related technologies and sub-projects you might find useful to consider for your projects.

The "University" section of the conference will feature a "GlassFish in Action" 3-hour session (Tuesday @ 1:30pm) with GlassFish v3 Prelude, Atmosphere, Jersey, OpenMQ, OpenESB/Fuji, WebSynergy tooling, and GlassFish-partner Nuxeo (on WebEngine). Should be fast paced, energetic, and mainly demo-driven.

Other sessions include :
• Developing multi-language portlets by Satya Ranjan
• Atmosphere by Jean-François Arcand (portable Comet based applications)
• Project Fuji by Andreas Egloff (OpenESB.next, GlassFish v3, OSGi, IFL, & JBI)
• Building dynamic web applications with Comet, a BOF by Carol McDonald.
• Connectivity with OpenMQ by project Lead Linda Schneider.
• Java EE 6 Overview by spec lead Roberto Chinnici.
• The Java API for RESTful Web Services by spec lead Paul Sandoz.
• EJB 3.1 - from Legacy to Secret Weapon by Adam Bien, prolific blogger and consultant.
• 10 reasons Java EE develpment doesn't have to be painful, by yours truly.

The conference is now full (just like previous years) and the welcome page says : "3.200 attendees from 35 countries". Should be fun!

The first half of December is going to be busy in terms of GlassFish presence at various conferences. The first one is taking place in Montreal on December 4th with Jean-François Arcand presenting on GlassFish, Grizzly, Comet, and NIO. Details are here.

The biggest Java community event around in December is most likely Devoxx (Antwerp, Belgium - December 8th-12th). GlassFish and other sister projects will be represented in all three sections of the conference: Tools in Actions, University, and Conference. We'll post a more detailed entry on the GlassFish presence at Devoxx soon.

Finally, on December 12th, the Sun office will host a GlassFish event dubbed "The Aquarium in Paris" (check link for speaker and registration details). This is a full day of technical sessions with two tracks. The event is free but registrations are going strong and the seats are limited, so register now if you plan to attend.