This years edition of JavaPolis, one of the finest Java events in Europe, took place last month in Antwerp, Belgium and delivered five days of conferences and presentations in every length and format you can think of. Javapolis is not vendor oriented so you can see different blends of the Java world together in the same event, an fine example of that is all the talks dedicated for each one of IDE currently used (of course Eclipse in Action had to be a do not miss).
For me one of the most interesting would have to be Maven 2.0 by Vincent Massol, one of the lead commiters of the project, to get bit deeper on what the new version of Maven, released in the late Summer, can do. Other interesting events are related to the current trends of the Java world: the evolution of Spring, EJB 3.0 or the SOA hype just to name a few.
Sadly I couldn’t see it live but now the slides are available online for most of the events and, hopefuly just like last year, soon we’ll have the videos too.
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