2008 Rock Stars

Veteran Rock Stars are on hand at this year's conference and they are bringing us more. This year the following Rock Stars will be presenting yet again. Be sure to catch the sessions below and hear from who you voted as the best of the best. Rock Star Session ID: Title (Track) Almaer, Dion Ajaxian, Inc. TS-6807: What's New in Ajax (Next Generation Web) Bloch, Joshua Google, Inc. BOF-6588: Writing the Next Great Java Technology Book (Tools and Scripting Languages / Cool Stuff) Campbell, Christopher Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-6656: Extreme Graphical User Interface Makeover: Rock Stars (Desktop) Click, Cliff Azul Systems TS-6237: Debugging Data Races (Java SE) TS-6256: Toward a Coding Style for Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures (Java SE / Cool Stuff) TS-6206: JVM Machine Challenges and Directions in the Multicore Era (Tools and Scripting Languages) Enebo, Thomas Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5416: JRuby: Why, What, How...Do It Now (Tools and Scripting Languages) Fast, Todd Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-6537: Applications for the Masses by the Masses: Why Engineers Are an Endangered Species (Next Generation Web) Ford, Neal ThoughtWorks Inc. TS-6072: Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques (Java EE) TS-6050: Comparing JRuby and Groovy (Tools and Scripting Languages) Gafter, Neal Google, Inc. TS-5579: Closures Cookbook (Java SE) TS-5581: JDK Release 7 Language Changes (Java SE) Galbraith, Ben TS-6929: Creating a Compelling User Experience (Desktop) TS-6807: What's New in Ajax (Next Generation Web) Geary, David Clarity Training, Inc. TS-6187: Killer Bolt-on UIs for Legacy Web Applications (Next Generation Web / Cool Stuff / Open Source) Goetz, Brian Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5515: Let's Resync: What's New for Concurrency on the Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7 Platform) (Java SE) BOF-6588: Writing the Next Great Java Technology Book (Tools and Scripting Languages / Cool Stuff) Guy, Romain Google, Inc. TS-6611: Filthy-Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer, Clientier (Desktop) Haase, Chet Adobe TS-6611: Filthy-Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer, Clientier (Desktop) Hemphill, Charles Conversay TS-6528: Listen and Speak: Teach Your Old Device New Tricks (Java ME) Hickey, Shannon Conversay TS-6656: Extreme Graphical User Interface Makeover: Rock Stars (Desktop) TS-6657: Beans Binding: Good for the Heart (Desktop) Johnson, Rod SpringSource TS-6169: Spring Framework 2.5: New and Notable (Java EE) Koelle, David Charles River Analytics, Inc. BOF-5265: Java Technology, Music, and You (Java SE / Cool Stuff) TS-5263: Jamming with Java Technology: Making Music with JFugue and Jfrets (Cool Stuff / Consumer Technologies) Lamere, Paul Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5841: Project Aura: Recommendation for the Rest of Us (Next Generation Web / Cool Stuff) McManus, Eamonn Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5199: Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology Update (Java SE) Muller, Hans Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-6605: Deep Inside JSR 296, the Swing Application Framework (Desktop) TS-6609: The JavaFX Script Programming Language for Swing Developers (Desktop) TS-6610: JavaFX Script Technology-Based Runtime API (Desktop) Murray, Greg Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-6868: GWT and jMaki: Expanding the GWT Universe (Next Generation Web / Open Source) Nicholas, Ethan Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-6649: New Features in the Java 6uN Platform (Desktop) Norbye, Tor Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5249: The NetBeans Ruby IDE: You Thought Rails Development Was Fun Before (Tools and Scripting Languages) BOF-5998: Meet the Java Posse (Cool Stuff) Nutter, Charles Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5416: JRuby: Why, What, How...Do It Now (Tools and Scripting Languages) PAN-5435: The Script Bowl: A Rapid-Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages (Tools and Scripting Languages) Odersky, Martin EPFL TS-5165: Programming with Functional Objects in Scala (Tools and Scripting Languages) PAN-5435: The Script Bowl: A Rapid-Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages (Tools and Scripting Languages) Oliver, Christopher Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5152: Overview of the JavaFX Script Programming Language (Tools and Scripting Languages) Printezis, Tony Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5419: The Garbage-First Garbage Collector (Java SE) Pugh, William University of Maryland TS-6589: Defective Java Code: Turning WTF Code Into a Learning Experience (Java SE) TS-6590: Using FindBugs in Anger (Tools and Scripting Languages) Purdy, Cameron Oracle Corporation TS-6339: Top 10 Patterns for Scaling Out Java Technology-Based Application (Java EE) Reinhold, Mark Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-5214: OpenJDK Community Update (Java SE) BOF-5215: Open JDK Project Q&A (Java SE) Rondel, Steve Conversay TS-6528: Listen and Speak: Teach Your Old Device New Tricks (Java ME) Srinivas, Raghavan Sun Microsystems, Inc. PAN-5435: The Script Bowl: A Rapid-Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages (Tools and Scripting Languages) Wolf, Michael Azul Systems TS-6256: Toward a Coding Style for Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures (Java SE / Cool Stuff) TS-6500: Performance Considerations in Concurrent Garbage-Collected Systems (Java SE) Wielenga, Geertjan Sun Microsystems, Inc. TS-4895: The NetBeans IDE Compared to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Desktop) BOF-5091: Toward a Consumer IDE: Get What You Want When You Want It (Desktop)