Interesting talks, and free drinks in JavaOne

Its been two years since I've last visited the JavaOne conference. This year is going to be particularly interesting as its going to be the first major Java event following the Oracle acquisition of Sun.

I will have a Technical Session on Tuesday titled: Alternative to Google Application Engine for Java™ Technology-Based Applications, where I'm going to outline the difference between the Google and Amazon approach for cloud computing and discuss how we can combine the best of the two approaches. Argyn Kuketayev and Francis de la Cruz from Primatics is going to join me  and present their experience in deploying a risk management application as a service and provide some of the technical details on how they where able to scale-out their application  on the cloud.

Daniel Templeton from Sun Microsystems will have a lab session: PetClinic in the Clouds: Scaling a Classic Enterprise Application In this Hands-on Lab, participants will take a popular Web application (the Spring PetClinic sample application) and modify it so that it can be deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. They will be exposed to using the GigaSpaces platform as a service, in-memory data grid concepts, the OpenSpaces framework, cloud computing concepts, and persistence as a service using Sun's MySQL™ database technology.

We are also co-hosting an event Tuesday June 2 at 8PM with our partner Webtide with whom we've done a great integration for Jetty.

Among those who will attend the party will give a chance to win a free book Savvy Guide for cloud computing by Jim Liddle.

*Note: Space is going to be limited so if you want to ensure your place make sure to register on the online registration site that we set for this event.

The list below include all the sessions and labs that I hope to see – any recommendations on other interesting talks would be appreciated.

Session ID	Session Title	Session Type	Speakers and Company	Date/Time	Venue Room
TS-4605	Enterprise JavaBeans™ 3.1 (EJB™ 3.1) Technology Overview	Technical Session	Kenneth Saks, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Marina Vatkina, Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Tuesday June 02 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM	Hall E 134
TS-4308	Architecting Robust Applications for Amazon EC2 Chris Richardson,	Technical Session	Chris Richardson Consulting	Tuesday June 02 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM	Esplanade 307-310
TS-4390	Castle in the Clouds: SaaS Enabling JavaServer™ Faces Applications	Technical Session	Lucas Jellema, AMIS	Tuesday June 02 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM	Esplanade 302
TS-3817	Google App Engine: Java™Technology in the Cloud	Technical Session	Toby Reyelts, Google; Max Ross, Google; Don Schwarz, Google	Tuesday June 02 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM	Hall E 135
TS-5454	Alternative to Google Application Engine for Java™ Technology-Based Applications	Technical Session	Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces Argyn Kuketayev Francis de la Cruz Primatics	Tuesday June 02 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM	Esplanade 302
LAB-5564BYOL	PetClinic in the Clouds: Scaling a Classic Enterprise Application	Hands On Lab	Michal Bachorik, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Shay Hassidim, GigaSpaces; Daniel Templeton, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Wednesday June 03	Wednesday 1:35 PM - 3:15 PM	Hall E 132
TS-5214	Java™ Persistence API 2.0: What's New ?	Technical Session	Linda DeMichiel, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Anil Gaur, Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Wednesday June 03 2:50 PM - 3:50 PM	Hall E 134
BOF-1304	Meet The App Engine (Java™) Team	BOF	Kevin Gibbs, Google; Toby Reyelts, Google; Max Ross, Google; Don Schwarz, Google	Wednesday June 03 7:45 PM - 8:35 PM	Hall E 135
PAN-5366	Cloud Computing: Show Me the Money	Panel Session	Jeff Barr, Amazon.com; Jeff Collins, Intuit; Chris Fry, Salesforce; Simon Guest, Microsoft; Gregor Hohpe, Google, Inc.; Raghavan Srinivas, Self; Lew Tucker, Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Thursday June 04 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Gateway 102-103
BOF-5392	Grails Integration Strategies	BOF	Dave Klein, Contegix	Thursday June 04 6:30 PM - 7:20 PM	Esplanade 307-310
TS-5307	Building Next-Generation Web Applications with the Spring 3.0 Web Stack	Technical Session	Keith Donald, SpringSource; Jeremy Grelle, SpringSource	Friday June 05 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM	Esplanade 307-310
LAB-5960	Storing Data in the Cloud	Hands On Lab	Craig Hubbard, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Chris Kutler, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Craig McClanahan, Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Thursday June 04 9:30 AM - 11:10 AM	Hall E 130-131

Tip* - If you want to find your own sessions I would highly recommend using the JavaOne search tool.

Seeyu next week!