Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

I’ve wanted to go to JavaOne for a number of years now but the opportunity has never presented itself.

It looks like that’s going to change this year as somehow I’ve convinced my employer that it’d be in both of our best interests to send me.

I’ve transitioning into more of a technical lead role (I work for a startup so we all wear plenty of hats) so I’m looking forward to the conference and think it’ll be a pretty good experience.  I went to NFJS last year when it was in Seattle and had a pretty good time.  I think it’s a great conference as well and I’ll most likely be attending it again this year.

Having never been to a JavaOne before, is there anything to look out for?  It looks like they’ve put a new system in place to pre-register for session’s.  That takes some of the fun out of last minute decisions, but I suppose its a step in the right direction of ensuring that everyone gets a spot in the sessions of their choice.

I haven’t had a good look through the session catalog yet, but I definitely plan on attending anything given by Romain Guy, JGoodies Karsten and the JBoss/Hibernate/Spring guys.

I’ve also never been to San Francisco so I’ll probably take a couple days before the conference to do a bit of exploring.