Are a few developers at your work thinking about heading to JavaOne 2011 but have yet to register? If so, you might be interested in the group discount.

If five attendees register from the same company then for four JavaOne packages brought, the fifth package is free. For full details have a look at the announcement on the JavaOne website.

It could be a good selling point if your boss is umming and ahhing about letting you go to JavaOne this year. There's even a letter to management you can use to help persuade them that it's a worthwhile visit.

JavaOne is being held in San Francisco, 2nd-6th October, 2011. If you want to find out more about JavaOne 2011, check out the official website, or follow the news on Twitter: @javaoneconf.

If you've been playing with JDK 7 and have wondered how bug fixes are worked on behind the scenes then you should have a look at A Bug's Life blog post by Dalibor Topic. He goes through the gauntlet a bug has to run through before emerging fixed in an update.

He also mentions work being done to update the bug tracking system used in the OpenJDK.

If you're heading to JavaOne this year and have your hands on a nifty mobile device, you should check out the JavaOne mobile application. It's available for the Blackberry, Android devices and the iphone/ipad.

The application gives you:

• access you your JavaOne schedule
• the ability to search for sessions or speakers
• read the latest on the JavaOne feeds, twitter, etc.
• find the best places to meet up with other attendees
• maps and details on how to get around in San Francisco
• locations for things to visit and places to eat
• details of discounts available in the city for JavaOne attendees

JavaOne is being held in San Francisco, 2nd-6th October, 2011. If you want to find out more about JavaOne 2011, check out the official website, or follow the news on Twitter: @javaoneconf.

The technical presentations from the JVM Language Summit, held at Oracle's Santa Clara campus in mid-July, are now viewable online on the Oracle Technology Network. The slides for the talks can also be downloaded to complement the videos.

The JVM Language Summit is a chance for language and VM implementers to get together and talk about the JVM with respect to Java and other programming languages.

This year's conference included talks on JVM capabilities, various language implementations, Java SE 8, and a look at some emerging technologies.