My second session on Tuesday was my first non-keynote session at JavaOne 2012 outside of the Hilton. Peter Hausel (Typesafe) gave the presentation "Modern Web Development with Play Framework 2.0" was held at Cyril Magon I in Parc 55. For some unexplained reason, they did not allow attendees into the room until ten minutes before the session started. It was a small room and ended up being over 3/4 or more full.

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After spending all day Monday in the Hilton, I wasn't too surprised when my first session on Tuesday brought me back to the Hilton. Stephen Colebourne and Roger Riggs and presented "From Instants to Eras, the Future of Java" in the Hilton Yosemite A/B/C conference room. This presentation was high on my list of those to see because, after lambda expressions, the new date/time API is the feature of JDK 8 that I'm most looking forward to.

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With two of three keynotes (Strategy Keynote and Technical Keynote) accomplished and nearly the first day of general sessions accomplished, there are a few early observations that can be made regarding JavaOne 2012.

Blogging is More Popular than Ever

It feels like I've read more blog posts on JavaOne this year than in the previous two years. There seems to be a lot of early enthusiasm and that may be explainable to the high note that JavaOne 2011 ended on.

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Bruno Souza, Martijn Verburg, and Heather Vancura presented "101 Ways to Improve Java: Why Developer Participation Matters" in Continental Ballroom 4 of the Hilton. They split these up into their areas of greatest familiarity. Souza, the founder and coordinator of SouJava, talked about greater participation via user groups.

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I walked the few steps necessary from Continental Ballroom 4 and one NetBeans topic (Project Easel) to Continental Ballroom 5 to see another NetBeans-oriented presentation: "NetBeans.Next - The Roadmap Ahead."

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The JavaOne 2012 conference materials listed this presentation as "Project EASEL: Developing and Managing HTML5 in a Java World," but the title slide posted as we wait for the session to begin is titled "NetBeans - Project Easel." The authors and presenters listed on that title slide are John "JB" Brock, John Jullion-Ceccarelli, and David Konecny.

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I returned to Plaza A/B in the Hilton to attend the fourth session on Monday, but first went up to the top floor of the Hilton to pick up lunch. I'm reminded every year on the first day of JavaOne how surprisingly frustrating the first day's lunch acquiring process is for everyone involved.

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I made the very short walk from Hilton Plaza A/B back to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see the presentation "Walk through Groovy's AST Transformations." Groovy's AST Transformations are something I've dabbled with directly a few times, but have more often benefited from others' wo

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One of the presentations I most eagerly anticipated for JavaOne 2012 was Brian Goetz's "The Road to Lambda." The taste of Lambda at last night's Technical Keynote only added to the anticipation.

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I was a little surprised when I looked at my schedule for today and noted that all of the sessions I have currently planned to see today are in the Hilton. This became a little less surprising when I realized that about half of the JavaOne presentations are in the Hilton and that they seem to be roughly located by track.

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Mark Reinhold started off the JavaOne 2012 Technical Keynote. He said this year's edition would be a little different because it would use largely the same example to illustrate various aspects of Java rather than standalone individual coverage of each component of Java.

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I had a rough start to JavaOne 2012 similar to that at JavaOne 2010.

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Packt Publishing published its first book in 2004 and is about to publish its 1000th book. Along the way, Packt Publishing has donated a portion of revenue to the open source projects covered by its books.

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In the blog post Where's Ed at JavaOne 2012, JavaServer Faces specification lead Ed Burns points out that "JavaOne 2012 is just 19 business days away!" In that post, he shows a screen snapshot of the Google Calendar representation of his schedule for JavaOne 2012.

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Geertjan Wielenga invited me to participate in the panel at NetBeans Community Day at JavaOne 2012 and I'm looking forward to that.

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