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Hurtling Towards JavaOne...

I'm in my normal ten-days-to-JavaOne panic phase, but the various pieces are starting to come together.

Bill Shannon are I are finalizing the slides for the JavaOne 2006 Technical General Session at 12:15 on Tuesday the 16th. This is the session where we provide the overall roadmaps for the Java SE and EE platforms, to try to give people a context for the many individual technical sessions and BOFs that follow.

As usual we're panicking over having far too much material for the available time. We'll be covering Mustang and Java EE 5, but we'll also have a section towards the end looking forward to Dolphin and other new technologies. This year we're including a range of demos, so you can see the reality, both of the "Now and How" for Java EE 5 and for some of the future ideas. So grab your box lunch and bring it into the keynote room for our 12:15 start!

The program of general sessions start with the Tuesday morning Sun executive keynote with Jonathan Schwartz and Jeff Jackson. The Thursday morning keynote from Erich Gamma and John Wiegand of IBM should be particularly interesting: it promises many insights from their Eclipse experiences. And on Friday, Scott and James will show us the latest, greatest, craziest, most fun Java innovations!

There are, of course, a vast range of Technical Sessions and BOFs covering all kinds of key Java technologies. but, in addition to the sessions and BOFs, I wanted to plug a few associated community events:

• Mustang Community party, at the Argent Hotel, Tuesday, May 16, 8:30pm. Come here if you are contributing, or would like to contribute to Mustang and Dolphin.

• Glassfish Community JUG and Reception, at the Argent Hotel, Wednesday, May 17, 5-7 pm, for participants and users of Sun's open source Java EE 5 project.

• Java Community Process Reception at the Argent Hotel, Wednesday, May 17, 6:30-8:00 pm, for JCP participants.

Now I have to run - Chet has just got me some new benchmark data to expose (!) concrete numbers for the benefits of the famous Gray Rect UI fix...

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