Unfortunately, I am not at JavaOne this week. I was there in 2001, but haven't been back since. I often tell people that I don't want to pay good money so that I can be advertised to, but the truth is that I'd go if I had the chance.
But even though I'm not there, I thought I'd chime in with my own JavaOne report. Norm sent me this photo from the JavaOne bookstore...
It seems that Spring in Action is selling well in San Francisco this week, coming in at #8 on the best-sellers list (or #9 if you split out the tie at #3). And it's in good company. I've been looking forward to flipping through Java Puzzlers and I've heard great things about Head First Design Patterns. Norm's two books, JBoss 4.0: The Official Guide and JBoss: A Developer's Notebook are just higher than SiA on the list at #6 and #7.
But my SiA isn't the only Spring book on the list. Matt Raible's Spring Live came in at #11. And Rod Johnson's J2EE Development without EJB is at #14.
As big of a fan as I am of Maven, I'm still a bit surprised that Maven: A Developer's Notebook ranked so highly on the list. My experience has been that people either love Maven or hate Maven...and I was left believing that more people hated it than loved it. But, perhaps I was wrong. Maybe all that was needed was a book to get people started.
