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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
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