JavaOne Critique

As always, I'm enjoying the JavaOne conference this year. It's only the second day, but my usual criticism of the presentations holds true. The presenters love to show flashy demos and rarely if ever cover the gory details of how you manage the source code, build your project in a test environment, deploy to production, and manage developers using a mix of IDEs. In particular how do you handle the differences between development, test, and production environments: different databases, hostnames, mail servers, and other external resources that must be configured.

This is a minor point, but I would expect a developer's conference to talk about the development life cycle and environment. These issues get too little coverage.