I thought I share some of the conferences and books I am looking forward to in the coming few months
Conferences
This will be the first time I would be heading to developer conferences within EU. This year I had plans to attend FOSDEM, but they did not materilize, there is always next year.
Devoxx: This conference is an Antwerp, a city which I had the pleasure of staying in summer of 2009. This conference is definitely on the top of my list.
JAOO: is a Danish Java conference in Arahus (roughly 4 hours away from where I live by Ferry and Train). I have already put my name on the Volunteers list for this conference
JavaZone: A java conference held in Oslo. Interestingly I found about this by watching a funny movie trailer for this conference just this weekend. I think the very first time I watched a video of a conference back in 2007 was when i was reseaching framework selection and watched Matt Raible talking about frameworks in this conference in 2007. Oslo is also 4 hours away from where I live.
Unfortunately my budget wont let me permit to go to Oredev, but I think I have my schedule already full 
Books
Although I am a strong proponent of learning by practice and experience, one cannot ignore that learning technology from books released in a timely manner is probably the best resource for developers.
I am very interested in the following books. You must be able to tell that this is very Spring centric list
Spring in a Nutshell
Enterprise OSGi in Action
OSGi in Action
Spring in Action, Third Edition
Spring in Practice 3rd Edition
Spring Integration in Action
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition (already have the beta)
Spring Security 3 (already released, on my reading list)
I think I would be getting access to most of these books online soon, if only I didn’t have to to spend my savings on going to conferences 
. I will try to update this page with more things I come acoress. Let me know if you know of a good conference within EU and upcoming books related to JavaEE.
