Kicking of JavaZone 2007

Finaly it has launched, JavaZone 2007 is running with more than 120 speakers from all over the world, and more than 2200 attendants, make this a pretty large conference, at least according to Scandinavian standards. I have been participating the program-commitee myself and it is very fun to see everything come to a start. The program this year is pretty well balanced, Enterprise, Web , Agile and Hard-Core Java speakers from all over the world is here in large numbers.

There are definitely a lot of focus on Agile this year. On other conferences I have been attending during the last couple of years, there is always one or two subjects that stands out, but I don't find it to be as clear this year. There are definitely bias do use less heavyweight infrastructure in web-like deployment-scenarios that it used to be. There is also a lot of focus on Maven. We actually had to reject as much as five talks on Maven, because it was already so well-covered.

I spoke with the Javaposse crew-members yesterday, and my impression is that Maven has a strong position in Scandinavia, and Less in the US.

Regardless if you are interested in Maven or Ajax there should definitely be something for every taste in this years program, hope you will enjoy it, we enjoyed putting it together!