Devoxx 2011, organized by Java user group in Belgium, is the biggest Java conference in Europe. The first two University Days set the tone for the weeklong conference with its in-depth technical sessions lead by luminaries from the Java community and industry experts. Each day is a great mix of 3 hour sessions and hands-on labs, 30 minute Tools-in-Action sessions giving tips for faster and better application development and the traditional Birds-of-a-Feather sessions in the evening.

Java sessions for today and tomorrow:

- Next Gen Enterprise Apps - Bert Ertman and Paul Bakker talked about new Java EE 6 APIs that reduces the need for boilerplate code and configuration.

- JavaFX 2.0 – A Java developer’s guide - Stephen Chin and Peter Pilgrim will give an overview of new version and how Java developers can take advantage of it

- Java Rich Clients with JavaFX 2.0 - Richard Bair and Jasper Potts will get into JavaFX 2.0 APIs

- Building an end-to-end application using Java EE 6 and NetBeans - Arun Gupta will showcase how to write Java EE 6 applications more effectively.

- The OpenJDK Community BOF with Dalibor Topic

Starting Tuesday, come by the Oracle booth to chat about technology, enter our raffle and have a beer every day at 18:45

The sessions will be available on Parleys website after the conference. In the meantime, you can learn a lot about those Java technologies on our website:

- JavaFX 2.0 tutorials and documentation

- OpenJDK

- News from the GlassFish community

- JavaEE 6 resources

- JavaOne sessions