The weather is getting warmer. The animals are waking from their winter slumber, and the first robin of the season can be spotted singing in the trees. Spring is here, and that means one thing — and one thing only — JavaOne is just around the corner.

Well, OK, maybe JavaOne isn’t what most people think about at Springtime, but for Java geeks like me, it’s the event of the year. The conference is running from May 5th through May 9th, 2008. This will be my third visit to San Francisco’s Moscone Center and its underground community that is JavaOne. The conference lasts four days, and it’s not for the faint of heart. The committed Java developer (or better yet the Java developer who should be committed) can expect to spend about 12 to 15 hours a day just attending the key notes, technical sessions, and birds-of-a-feather seminars

A quick perusal of the “Advance Conference Guide” shows that many of the technical sessions will be focusing on the new features in Java 7, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), EJB 3.1, JSF 2.0, and Java FX, just to name a few. It will also be loaded with enough birds-of-a-feather seminars and hands-on classes that trying to pick out just what I want to go to will prove a daunting experience.

Stay tuned for the up to the minute coverage of the conference as I attempt to live-blog every session that I attend. It should be interesting.

See you on May 5th.