I'm really looking forward to the opening keynote tomorrow, and getting this year's conference started. It's been great already running into many familiar faces (some of which you only see once a year at JavaOne) around the Moscone Center and San Francisco.

Tuesday's schedule is packed with a lot of cool potential talks. Tough choices have to be made on which ones you're going to go to... here's my list of five "can't miss" sessions for Tuesday:

* TS-9370 10:50am Moscone Gateway 104
JRuby on Rails: Agility for the Enterprise
Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo, Sun Microsystems

* TS-2707 3:20pm Moscone Gateway 102/103
Java Puzzlers, Episonde VI: The Phantom-Reference Menace/Attack of the Clone/Revenge of the Shift
Joshua Bloch, Google, William Pugh, U of MD

* TS-64745 4:40pm Moscone Esplande 301
Developing Web 2.0 Mapping Applications
Eric Dylewski, NAVTEQ, Geoff Hendrey, deCarta

* BOF-2358 9:00pm Moscone Gateway 102/103
Closures for the Java Programming Language
Neal Gafter, Google

* BOF-1968 10:00pm Moscone North Meeting Room
Meet the Java Posse
Tor Norbye, Sun Microsystems

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