I just got back from Javapolis in Antwerp and was quite surprised to see how popular it is getting.
Upon attending I found that there were 1500 people registered and although there is still a large local majority attending, more people are coming from other parts of Europe and even some from North America (such as myself).

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For the past 4 years I've been asking all my former managers/companies to sponsor me to attend JavaOne. As it never happened for budget or travel restrictions, I searched for cheaper and closer, and I found JavaPolis: with an entry fee of 200 Euro, JavaPolis is "the Apache of Conferences, low-cost and high quality!".
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And a huge thanks to Stephan, Robin and the rest of the steering Members. They did a marvelous job, the conference set up was almost perfect !
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The JavaPolis staff did a fantastic job of recording all the presentations and converting them to a streaming Shockwave format, so that you can see the slides and demos live while listening to the voice narration from the presenter.

Javapolis was a real success. It's been a great conference and I must admit that the contacts we had there were really ... interesting! They were really wondering what Microsoft was doing at "their" event...
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Javapolis was clearly a great show to be at - I wish I'd had more time to see more of it, not to mention Antwerp in general.
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Esperienza assolutamente consigliabile. Spanne sopra una Java Conference e qualcuno che e' stato a JavaOne ha detto che sono sicuramente paragonabili. Penso che la spesa dei 200? sia irrisoria rispetto a quello che ci si puo' portar via da JavaPolis in termini di esperienza, divertimento e motivazione. Un must.
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By far the best conference in the Java space. Excellent organization and selection of speakers. Too bad that many interesting sessions were held in parallel. Maybe next year you guys could stretch JavaPolis to 2 weeks.
See you next year...

Great day at JavaPolis yesterday, again it was a day of long 3 hour university sessions. Today promises to be even better with more shorter sessions on a wide range of topics...
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With a conference fee of 200 Euros (about $260) Javapolis has to be one of the great values in the conference world.
It is certainly the closest thing to a JavaOne available in Europe.
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JavaPolis 2004 was a real success. In the past, I've attended TheServerSide symposiums and Javapolis was very similar: packed with technical sessions and full of well-known speakers. The setup was excellent (kudos to Stephan and his team) and the rooms were amazing.
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I really enjoyed my three days at Javapolis 2004. A message for all BeJug guys and organizers: great job! JavaPolis is definitely THE european conference.
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The organization was quite excellent this year: badges being sent in time, no registration queues, plenty of food baggies, a noteblock in our conference bag, music in the exhibition hall, a bookshop, (non-free) wireless access, XBoxes to have fun with, etc etc... kudos to the staff!
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I had quite a lot of fun during the past week though, and I'm looking forward to next year's edition. Doing the same thing for a 120+ crowd every year, I can appreciate what the Bejug, Navajo and Janssen family have been gone through for the past few weeks: nice work!
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They have a great setup here for JavaPolis - the conference takes place in a cinema complex with the sessions being held in the different screening rooms. That meant I got a great big room with a great big screen to project onto - perfect for showing off AJDT.
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First off, the conference: it's terrific, you want to go if you do Java for a living and you can get to Belgium. I was only there for a day, and I heard two or three great talks, met some cool people and had some serious laughs. It's ridiculously cheap (200 Euro this year), and still somehow manages to include decent food, first-rate tshoschkes, a good trade-show floor, reasonably marketing-free presentations, and outstanding A/V.
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A great conference, with a lot of quality content and a perfect organisation. My congrats to Stephan and his entire team. We can only hope that you guys continue to provide us with such great events in the future.

Currently engaged as a .NET architect, JavaPolis for me is by far the best place to keep up-to-date with Java, look at IT from a different non-.NET perspective and attend the truly excellent methodology track. This was my third JavaPolis but I hope to return many times because JavaPolis only keeps on becoming better.

As a first time visitor to JavaPolis, I was highly impressed by both the list of speakers and how well everything was organized. I enjoyed every part of it, met a lot of nice and interesting people, got a lot of new ideas and will probably be spending a lot of spare time the next few weeks, diving into all the new things I've heard all these great speakers talk about.

Thanks for everything and hopefully till next year !

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The beer in Belgium is always great too. I love getting a special glass for each 'brand' of beer. So much more refined

An excellent selection of speakers (plus your humble scribe) at a very affordable price.

I realized today that at a certain point you actually start to get used to all the big names on the agenda. But it still is rather amazing that all of these great minds are gathering in Belgium.
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It must be said that Javapolis 2004 really rocked. I'd like to thank the organization for putting up such a tremendous performance. The organization was perfect, and I'd like to recommend any Java-adept to come to next releases of Javapolis. It's really worthwhile.
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Great content. I'll be back in 2005 !!!!

With the success of JavaPolis, there can be no doubt in the truth of Stephan Janssen's proclamation that "BeJUG (Belgium Java Users Group) is now one of the most vibrant user groups of Java developers in Europe." JavaPolis is a premier Java conference and things look good for it to maintain that status. (more here...)

JavaPolis had a well balanced curriculum, a great venue and a nice expo hall.
I have attended $1000+ conferences that were not as well organized or had less information content.

I found JavaPolis to be a truly remarkable and well organized conference with engaging speakers.
The ratio price/quality was unbelievable.
It's no longer necessary to attend JavaOne! A big round of applause for JavaPolis 2003!

You really had managed to put together a great conference agenda this year.

This year I've once again tremendously enjoyed the conference and I was truly amazed at the big Java names BeJUG convinced to come over to Antwerp to speak for a European public.

As a Java newbie, I found it a successful JavaPolis with lots of interesting, informative keynotes.