JAVAONE 2011: October 2-6, 2011 Moscone Center San Francisco

JavaOne Rock Star Wall of Fame

The Rock Star Program started in 2005 to recognize speakers for their outstanding session content and speaking ability. The list below includes all of our Rock Stars since that time - our Rock Star Wall of Fame.

The JavaOne Program Office thanks you for your committment to your field and Java technology. Your contributions have helped make the JavaOne Conference what it is today.


Rodney Aiglstorfer
2006: Troubleshooting Java ME Technology: Tips from the Pros

Jeffrey Alexander
2008: The Minion Search Engine: Search, Text Similarity And Tag Gardening

Daniel Allen
2011: Real Java Enterprise Testing
2010: Throwing Complexity over the Wall: Rapid Development for Enterprise Java
2009: Conversations and Page Flows on the JavaServer Faces Platform

Dion Almaer
2009:
Ajax Versus JavaFX Technology
Creating Compelling User Experiences
2008:
What's New in Ajax
2007:
Creating Amazing Web Interfaces with Ajax
2006:
Introduction to AJAX

Andres Almiray
2010: Polyglot Programming in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Scott Ambler
2006: Crazy Talk: Examining Why Agile Software Development Works

Eric Arseneau
2009: FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology): FRC-FIRST Robotic Competition

Chris Bailey
2011: The Hidden World of Your Java Application and What It Is Really Doing

Rich Bair
2009: Introduction to the JavaFX Technology-Based API (Graphics and Animation)

Girish Balachandran
2008: Applications for the Masses by the Masses: Why Engineers Are an Endangered Species

Ram Banaerjee
2007: Free Mobile-to-Mobile Money Transmission Revolutionizes Trade Between the Poorest in Africa

Alan Bateman
2011: FileNotFound: A Tour of the File System API in JDK 7

Aaron Bedra
2011: Script Bowl 2011: A Scripting Languages Shootout

Josh Berkus
2010: Implementing an Enterprise Service Bus Solution Using Mule
2008: Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community

Adam Bien
2011: Rethinking Best Practices with Java EE 6, Java EE 6: The Cool Parts
2009: Energy, CO2 Savings with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition and More: Project GreenFire

Joshua Bloch
2009:
Effective Java: Still Effective After All These Years
Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe
2008:
More "Effective Java"
2007:
Java Puzzlers, Episode VI: The Phantom-Reference Menace/Attack of the Clone/Revenge of the Shift
Effective Java Reloaded
2006:
The Continuing Adventures of Java Puzzlers: Tiger Traps
Effective Java Reloaded
2005:
Yet More Programming Puzzlers

Matthew Bohm
2007: Using Ajax with POJC (Plain Old JavaServer Faces Components)

Gregory Bond
2009: Web 2.0 Phone Home: Rapid Development of Telecom-Enabled Web Applications

Joe Bowbeer
2005: Concurrency Utilities in Practice

Gilad Bracha
2005: Evolving the Java Language

Rick Brownrigg
2008: Putting 3-D Earth into Your Applications and Web Pages

Alex Buckley
2011: Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond

Christopher Campbell
2007: Extreme GUI Makeover 2007

Eric Caspole
2010: Performance and Debugging Advancements in OpenJDK

Brian Chess
2006: Twelve Java Technology Security Traps and How to Avoid Them

Stephen Chin
2011: Moving to the Client: JavaFX and HTML5
2009: Getting Started with WidgetFX: Open-Source Widget Desktop Platform with JavaFX Technology

Andy Clement
2010: New Java Virtual Machine Tricks: Enhanced Hot Code Replace and Mixin Generation

Cliff Click
2009: This Is Not Your Father's Von Neumann Machine; How Modern Architecture Impacts Your Java Apps
2008: JVM Challenges and Directions in the Multicore Era
2005: Java Technology Performance Myths Exposed

Stephen Colebourne
2010: The Next Big Java Virtual Machine Language
2008: It's High Time: A New Date and Time API for the Java Platform

John Coomes
2009: Inside Out: A Modern Virtual Machine Revealed
2007: Garbage-Collection-Friendly Programming

Rod Cope
2007: Advanced Groovy
2006: Groovy = Java Technology + Ruby + Python for the JVM
2005: Groovy = Java Technology + Ruby + Python for the JVM

Ryan Cuprak
2011: Building a Home Security System with Java

Jack Dangoor
2007: Free Mobile-to-Mobile Money Transmission Revolutionizes Trade Between the Poorest in Africa

Joseph Darcy
2011: The Heads and Tails of Project Coin

Ian Darwin
2007: Testing Java Code: Beyond the IDE

Scott Davis
2009: Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) and REST
2008: Groovy, the Red Pill: Metaprogramming--How to Blow the Mind of Developers on the Java Platform

Scott Delap
2006: Swing Threading 101: An Introduction to the Event Dispatch Thread

Linda DeMichiel
2010: Querying with the New Java Persistence Critieria API

Tom Deneau
2010: Performance and Debugging Advancements in OpenJDK

Chris Dennis
2007: Everything Java: JPC, a Fast x86 PC Emulator

Emil Eifrem
2010: A NoSQL Graph Database for the Java Virtual Machine

Thomas Enebo
2007: JRuby on Rails: Agility for the Enterprise

Michael Ernst
2009: Preventing Bugs with Pluggable Type Checking

Dan Fabulich
2008: Integrated Web Testing With Selenium

Todd Fast
2008: Applications for the Masses by the Masses: Why Engineers Are an Endangered Species
2005: Coding Across Continents: Technologies for Remote, Real-Time, Collaborative Software Development

Neal Ford
2009:
Comparing Groovy and JRuby
"Design Patterns" for Dynamic Languages on the JVM Machine
Unit Testing That Sucks Less: Small Things Make a Big Difference
2008:
Comparing JRuby and Groovy
Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques
2007:
Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques

Amy Fowler
2008: Using JavaFX Script To Build Swing Applications

Neal Gafter
2009: Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe
2006: The Continuing Adventures of Java Puzzlers: Tiger Traps
2005: Yet More Programming Puzzlers

Ben Galbraith
2009:
Ajax Versus JavaFX Technology
Creating Compelling User Experiences
2008:
Creating a Compelling User Experience
What's New in Ajax
Extreme GUI Makeover: In the Real World
2007:
Being Productive with Swing
Creating Amazing Web Interfaces with Ajax
Debugging and Optimizing Swing Applications
2006:
Introduction to AJAX
Eight Ways to Be More Productive Developing Swing Applications
2005:
Architecting Complex JFC/Swing Applications

Tom Gaskins
2008: Putting 3-D Earth into Your Applications and Web Pages

David Geary
2009: JavaServer Faces 2.0 Technology: Implementing AJAX-Infused Web Applications
2007: Killer JavaScript Technology Frameworks for Java Platform Developers: An Exploration of Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Rico
2005: Shale: The Next Struts?

Scott Gelb
2006: Swing Threading 101: An Introduction to the Event Dispatch Thread

Brian Goetz
2009:
This Is Not Your Father's Von Neumann Machine; How Modern Architecture Impacts Your Java Apps
Inside Out: A Modern Virtual Machine Revealed
2008:
Let's Resync: What's New for Concurrency on the Java Platform, Standard
JVM Challenges and Directions in the Multicore Era
2007:
Effective Concurrency for the Java Platform
2006:
Simpler, Faster, Better: Concurrency Utilities in JDK Software Version 5.0
2005:
Simpler, Faster, Better: Concurrency Utilities in JDK Software Version 5.0

Stephen Green
2008: The Minion Search Engine: Search, Text Similarity And Tag Gardening

Mikael Grev
2008: Creating Simple to Advanced Swing and SWT Layouts Easily with MiG Layout

Kirill Grouchnikov
2009: Flamingo: Bringing the Ribbon Component to Swing

Simon Guest
2010: Taking Java to the Sky: Cloud Computing 2010 Expert Panel
2005: Advanced Web Services Interoperability

Martin Gunnarsson
2011: Get Dressed for Success: From Swing to JavaFX

Romain Guy
2009: Move Your Users: Animation Principles for Great User Experiences
2008:
Filthy-Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer, Clientier
2007:
Extreme GUI Makeover 2007
Filthy-Rich Clients: Talk Dirty to Me
2006:
Extreme GUI Makeover: Lookin' Better
2005:
Extreme GUI Makeover, Episode 1: Lookin' Good

Chet Haase
2009: Move Your Users: Animation Principles for Great User Experiences
2008: Filthy-Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer, Clientier
2007: Filthy-Rich Clients: Talk Dirty to Me

Marc Hadley
2009: Developing RESTful Web Services with the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)
2008: JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services

Graham Hamilton
2005: Evolving the Java Language

Bentley Hargrave
2011: Why OSGi?

Jonathan Haslam
2008: Using DTrace with Java Technology-Based Applications: Bridging the Observability Gap

Charles Hemphill
2007: Catch This SpeechEvent: Recognition and Synthesis on Devices

Rikard Herlitz
2008: Creating Games on the Java Platform with the jMonkeyEngine

Rich Hickey
2009: Clojure: Dynamic Functional Programming for the JVM Machine

Shannon Hickey
2008: Using JavaFX Script To Build Swing Applications
2007: Extreme GUI Makeover 2007
2006: Extreme GUI Makeover: Lookin' Better
2005: Extreme GUI Makeover, Episode 1: Lookin' Good

Ron Hitchens
2005: XQuery for the Java Technology Geek

Juergen Hoeller
2005: The Spring Framework: Introduction to Lightweight J2EE Architecture

David Holmes
2011: Data Parallelism with the Fork/Join Framework in Java 7
2006: Simpler, Faster, Better: Concurrency Utilities in JDK Software Version 5.0
2005:
• Simpler, Faster, Better: Concurrency Utilities in JDK Software Version 5.0
• Concurrency Utilities in Practice

Burk Hufnagel
2010: No More Loser Experiences: Avoiding Common User Experience Antipatterns

Jason Hunter
2006: Extreme Web Caching
2005: XQuery for the Java Technology Geek

Bruce Johnson
2006: Java Technology Techniques for Developing Ajax Applications

Deron Johnson
2009: Creating Games with the Open-Source Multithreaded Game Engine (MTGame)

Rod Johnson
2007: Advanced Spring Framework
2005: The Spring Framework: Introduction to Lightweight J2EE Architecture

Jevgeni Kabanov
2011: Do You Really Get Class Loaders?

Kohsuke Kawaguchi
2011: Continuous Integration with Jenkins

Michael Keith
2010: Taking Java to the Sky: Cloud Computing 2010 Expert Panel

Mik Kersten
2009: Mylyn: Redefining the "I" of the IDE
2008: Mylyn: Code at the Speed of Thought

Peter Kessler
2007: Garbage-Collection-Friendly Programming

Frank Kim
2011: Java EE Web Security by Example

Paul King
2010: Groovy and Concurrency

Aslak Knutsen
2011: Real Java Enterprise Testing

David Koelle
2009: Programming Music for Fun and Productivity: JFugue and Log4JFugue
2008: Jamming with Java Technology: Making Music with JFugue and JFrets
2007: JFugue: Making Music with Java MIDI and Illustrating API Usability

Dierk König
2011: Extending Java's Reach with Groovy: Seven Scenarios

Peter Kriens
2011: Why OSGi?

Guillaume Laforge
2011: Script Bowl 2011: A Scripting Languages Shootout

Paul Lamere
2007: Search Inside the Music: Using Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and 3-D Visualizations to Discover New Music

Bob Lee
2011: The Ghost in the Virtual Machine: A Reference to References

Joonas Lehtinen
2011: Vaadin: Rich Web Apps in Server-Side Java Without Plug-ins or JavaScript

Bill Lewis
2005: Omniscient Debugging

Patrick Lightbody
2008: Integrated Web Testing With Selenium

Daniel Lopez
2005: High-Performance Java Foundation Classes/Swing Technology in the Real World: Lessons Learned While Developing Yahoo! SiteBuilder

Jeremy Manson
2006: The Java Memory Model: The Building Block of Concurrency

Joshua Marinacci
2009: Getting Started with WidgetFX: Open-Source Widget Desktop Platform with JavaFX Technology

Stuart Marks
2011: Project Coin in Action: Using New Java SE 7 Language Features in Real Code

Ross Mason
2010: Implementing an Enterprise Service Bus Solution Using Mule

Craig McClanahan
2007: Using Ajax with POJC (Plain Old JavaServer Faces Components)
2005: Shale: The Next Struts?

Eamonn McManus
2005: What's Happening With JMX Technology

Brad Miller
2009: FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology): FRC-FIRST Robotic Competition

Martin Morissette
2007: Exploring the Deep with SONIA

Hans Muller
2007: Extreme GUI Makeover 2007

Greg Murray
2005: Rich Web Applications With the J2EE Platform and AJAX

Rhys Newman
2009: Nereus-V: Massively Parallel Computing of, by, and for the Community
2007: Everything Java: JPC, a Fast x86 PC Emulator

Ethan Nicholas
2006: User Interfaces in XML: The JAXX Framework
2005: High-Performance Java Foundation Classes/Swing Technology in the Real World: Lessons Learned While Developing Yahoo! SiteBuilder

Kevin Nilson
2011: Moving to the Client: JavaFX and HTML5

Tor Norbye
2005: Rich Web Applications With the J2EE Platform and AJAX

Charles Nutter
2011: JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and the Rest of Us Too)
2007: JRuby on Rails: Agility for the Enterprise

Martin Nystrom
2005: Nine Ways to Hack a Web Application

Martin Odersky
2007: The Scala Experience -- Safe Programming Can Be Fun!

Christopher Oliver
2007: Form Follows Function (F3)

Felix Pageau
2007: Exploring the Deep with SONIA

Kirk Pepperdine
2011: Are Your Garbage Collection Logs Speaking to You?

Jasper Potts
2009: Introduction to the JavaFX Technology-Based API (Graphics and Animation)

Dhanji Prasanna
2009: Building Enterprise Java Technology-Based Web Apps with Google Open-Source Technology

Ian Preston
2009: Nereus-V: Massively Parallel Computing of, by, and for the Community

Tony Printezis
2009: Inside Out: A Modern Virtual Machine Revealed
2007: Garbage-Collection-Friendly Programming

William Pugh
2009:
Defective Java Code: Mistakes that Matter
2008:
Defective Java Code: Turning WTF Code into a Learning Experience
Using FindBugs in Anger
2007:
Java Puzzlers, Episode VI: The Phantom-Reference Menace/Attack of the Clone/Revenge of the Shift
Improving Software Quality with Static Analysis
2006:
The Java Memory Model: The Building Block of Concurrency

Cameron Purdy
2008: Top 10 Patterns for Scaling Out Java Technology-Based Applications
2007: The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Technology-Based Application Scalability and Reliability
2006: The Top 10 Ways to Botch an Enterprise Java Technology-Based Application

David Raccah
2009: JDBC? We Don?t Need No Stinkin' JDBC: How LinkedIn Scaled with memcached, SOA, and a Bit of SQL

Dhananjay Ragade
2009: JDBC? We Don?t Need No Stinkin' JDBC: How LinkedIn Scaled with memcached, SOA, and a Bit of SQL

Mark Reinhold
2005: Evolving the Java Language

Deane Richan
2010: Creating Great Looking Java Apps for Mac OS X Without Learning
2009: RIA Teacher Gradebook Managing Millions of Students with Swing and Web Services: How It Was Done

Simon Ritter
2008: Using DTrace with Java Technology-Based Applications: Bridging the Observability Gap

Graeme Rocher
2010: What's New in Grails 1.3?

Steve Rondel
2007: Catch This SpeechEvent: Recognition and Synthesis on Devices

Andrew Rubinger
2011: Real Java Enterprise Testing
2010: Throwing Complexity over the Wall: Rapid Development for Enterprise Java

Paul Sandoz
2010: Advanced Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2009: Developing RESTful Web Services with the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)
2008: The Java API for RESTful Web Services

Neeraj Sangal
2006: To Know the Dependencies is to Understand the Architecture

Michael Santos
2008: It's High Time: A New Date and Time API for the Java Platform

Randy Shoup
2009: Best Practices for Large-Scale Web Sites: Lessons from eBay

Karthik Shyamsunder
2010: Hadoop vs. Relational Database: Shout-out Between a Java Guy and a Database Guy

Pär Sikö
2011: Get Dressed for Success: From Swing to JavaFX

Ken Sipe
2009: Debugging Your Production JVM Machine

Joshua Slack
2008: Creating Games on the Java Platform with the jMonkeyEngine

Daniel Smith
2011: Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond

Thomas Smith
2009: Web 2.0 Phone Home: Rapid Development of Telecom-Enabled Web Applications

Raghavan Srinivas
2011: Script Bowl 2011: A Scripting Languages Shootout
2005: Advanced Web Services Interoperability

Christian Straub
2005: Extreme Reuse in JavaServer Faces

Attila Szegedi
2011: Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning at Twitter

Brian Tarbox
2009: Programming Music for Fun and Productivity: JFugue and Log4JFugue

Chethan Thippeswamy
2010: Hadoop vs. Relational Database: Shout-out Between a Java Guy and a Database Guy

Doug Tidwell
2009: Using REST and WS-* in the Cloud

Jaroslav Tulach
2011: Paradoxes of API Design

Doug Twilleager
2009: Creating Games with the Open-Source Multithreaded Game Engine (MTGame)

Guy Veraghtert
2011: WWW: World Wide Wait? A Performance Comparison of Java Web Frameworks

Martijn Verburg
2011: The Diabolical Developer (Redux)

Ward Vijfeijken
2011: WWW: World Wide Wait? A Performance Comparison of Java Web Frameworks

Scott Violet
2006:
Extreme GUI Makeover: Lookin' Better
2005:
• Extreme GUI Makeover, Episode 1: Lookin' Good
• Layout Roundup and Futures

Jayashri Visvanathan
2007: Using Ajax with POJC (Plain Old JavaServer Faces Components)

Frank Waldman
2006: To Know the Dependencies is to Understand the Architecture

Dick Wall
2011: Script Bowl 2011: A Scripting Languages Shootout

Kathy Walrath
2005: Layout Roundup and Futures

Matt Warman
2008: Jamming with Java Technology: Making Music with JFugue and JFrets

Joel Webber
2006: Java Technology Techniques for Developing Ajax Applications

Geertjan Wielenga
2007: JFugue: Making Music with Java MIDI and Illustrating API Usability

Jeff Williams
2009: XSS-Proofing Your Java EE, JavaServer Pages, and JavaServer Faces Applications

Nic Williams
2011: Script Bowl 2011: A Scripting Languages Shootout

Adam Winer
2005: Extreme Reuse in JavaServer Faces

Michael Wolf
2005: Java Technology Performance Myths Exposed

Hinkmond Wong
2009: Migrating Your Java Platform, Micro Edition Midlets to JavaFX Mobile Technology

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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