Java Champions at JavaOne 2012

Everybody is doing some kind of preparation for JavaOne and Oracle OpenWorld these days already. Only a few more weeks to go and you should have your accommodation ready by now. Next on my schedule for conference preparation is to look for good content. Why not start with the talks from the most exclusive group of passionate Java technology lovers?

The Java Champions are an exclusive group of passionate Java technology and community leaders who are community-nominated and selected under a project sponsored by Oracle. Java Champions get the opportunity to provide feedback, ideas, and direction that will help Oracle grow the Java Platform. This interchange may be in the form of technical discussions and/or community-building activities with Oracle's Java Development and Developer Program teams. According to their bio page, there are 127 active JCs (plus one posthumous and four alumni).


Andres Almiray
CON5102 - Walk Through Groovy's AST Transformations
CON5100 - The Groovy Ecosystem
CON4853 - JavaFX for Business: Monitoring a Container Terminal
CON5106 - Griffon, Up Close and Personal
CON8222 - RIA Technologies and Frameworks Panel

Adam Bien
TUT3907 - Java EE 6/7: The Lean Parts
CON3906 - Stress-Testing Java EE 6 Applications Without Stress
CON3896 - Interactive Onstage Java EE Overengineering
CON3908 - Building Serious JavaFX 2 Applications

Stephen Colebourne
CON4350 - From Instants to Eras, the Future of Time in Java

Bert Ertmann
TUT5064 - Real-World Java EE 6 Tutorial
TUT5061 - Tutorial: A Practical Guide to Mixing OSGi and Java EE
CON5066 - Migrating Spring to Java EE
CON6430 - Java EE and Spring Framework Panel Discussion

Frank Greco
CON7365 - Extending Application Protocols and Java APIs over the Web with HTML5 WebSocket

Stephan Janssen
CON6439 - Progress at Parleys.com, a Java-Based E-Learning Platform
UGF10359 - GlassFish Community: The Foundation for Opportunity
BOF11369 - 2012 Duke’s Choice Award: Meet the Winners and Learn More About Why They Won

Heinz Kabutz
HOL6500 - Finding and Solving Java Deadlocks

Mattias Karlsson
BOF6540 - Java Champions and JUG Leaders Meet Oracle Executives
UGF10468 - Gooey and Sticky Bits: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Java

Fabiane Bizinella Nardon
UGF10462 - Autoscaling Web Java Applications: Handle Peak Traffic with Zero Downtime and Minimized Cost

Kevin Nilson
CON3363 - HTML5 Testing in All Browsers with Java
CON3362 - Moving to the Client: JavaFX and HTML5
CON8222 - RIA Technologies and Frameworks Panel

Kirk Pepperdine
CON5405 - Are Your Garbage Collection Logs Speaking to You?
BOF6540 - Java Champions and JUG Leaders Meet Oracle Executives
HOL6500 - Finding and Solving Java Deadlocks

Paul Perrone
TUT10154 - Programming Real Robots in Real Time
CON6335 - Rapid Robot Programming

Peter Pilgrim
CON4643 - Contemporary User Interface Design Patterns in JavaFX 2.2
CON4648 - Scala, JavaFX, Java EE 7, and Enterprise Integration
TUT5466 - JavaFX 2: A Java Developer’s Guide

Chris Richardson
CON4775 - Developing Polyglot Persistence Applications
CON4779 - Developing Applications with Cloud Services

Michael Santos
CON7780 - Designing Java EE Applications in the Age of CDI

Bruno Souza
UGF10468 - Gooey and Sticky Bits: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Java
BOF6283 - 101 Ways to Improve Java: Why Developer Participation Matters

Regina ten Bruggencate
BOF5303 - Women in Java: An Unconference
BOF11369 - 2012 Duke’s Choice Award: Meet the Winners and Learn More About Why They Won

Dalibor Topic (Alumni, now Oracle)
CON6803 - JDK 7 Updates in OpenJDK
CON3705 - OpenJDK Governance and Development Process Overview

Jim Weaver (Alumni, now Oracle)
HOL11265 - Playing to the Strengths of JavaFX and HTML5
HOL3058 - Custom JavaFX Controls

Stephen Chin (Alumni, now Oracle)
BOF5455 - Cleaner APIs, Cleaner UIs with Visage
BOF6275 - Developing Rich UI Applications with JavaFX 2: A Community Experience Exchange
BOF5503 - JFXtras Super Happy Dev BOF
CON3362 - Moving to the Client: JavaFX and HTML5
CON5486 - Grezi and GroovyFX
CON5329 - JavaFX and Scala, Like Milk and Cookies
CON8222 - RIA Technologies and Frameworks Panel
TUT5466 - JavaFX 2: A Java Developer’s Guide

Brian Goetz (Alumni, now Oracle)
CON6080 - Lambda: A Peek Under the Hood
CON4862 - The Road to Lambda