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Here's a reprise of the interviews we did with Java Rock Stars during the 2009 JavaOne Conference:
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Rockstar Matt Warman
Matt Warman provides a glimpse into the future of Java technology and music applications.
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Rock Star: Simon Ritter
Rock Star Simon Ritter explains the importance of DTrace for Java developers and provides a sneak preview of his Friday morning demo as part of James Gosling's "Toy Show."
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Rock Star: Cliff Click
Rock Star Cliff Click discusses how modern architectures impact Java applications, common misconceptions about benchmarking, and offers a quick performance overview of Scala, Clojure, Jython, JRuby and other alternative languages.
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Rock Star: Mik Kersten
Mik Kersten explains how Mylyn, a task-focused interface tool, can be used by Java developers in their everyday work to enhance their productivity.
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Rock Star: Neal Ford
Rock Star Neal Ford explores the differences between JRuby and Groovy, explains how to make unit testing palatable, and contrasts traditional design patterns on the JVM with the more metaprogramming approach associated with dynamic languages.
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Rock Star: Joshua Slack
Rock Star Joshua Slack discusses 3D Java technology and Ardor3D, a professionally oriented, open-source 3D Java engine that he created to take better advantage of modern Java concepts and libraries.
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