JavaOne Conference Trip Report

Sessions I Attended

Ratings
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Tepid Tepid
Hot! Hot!

Title Time Presenter(s) Rating
March 24, 1998
Keynote 8:30 AM John Gage, James Gosling, Dr. Alan Baratz tepid
JDK Software: Overview and Roadmap - Today and the Future 11:30 AM Frank Rimalovski tepid
The JFC (aka Swing) 12:45 PM Tom Ball, Amy Fouler, Hans Meuller tepid
Sybase: Improving the Bottom Line with Java Technology 2:00 PM Tom Veitch cold
Evolution of Performance for the Solaris Version of the JDK Software 3:15 PM David Nelson-Gal tepid
Enterprise JavaBeans Technology: Developing and Deploying Business Applications as Components 4:30 PM Mark Hapner tepid
Database Connectivity with JDBC Technology 5:45 PM Seth White tepid
March 25, 1998
Keynote 8:30 AM John Gage, Ed Zander, Scott McNealy tepid
Security on the Java Platform: Recent Developments and Future Directions 11:00 AM Lee Gong cold
Java Spaces: A Service for Collaborative Distributed Applications 12:15 PM Ken Arnold HOT!
Java Technology Experts Share Their Tricks! 1:30 PM Calvin Austin, Tony Squier HOT!
Java Blend 2:45 PM Linda DeMichiel HOT!
Project Swing and Java Foundation Classes (JFC) Technology 4:00 PM Dave Hecksel, Phill Jenkins, Brendan Lane Larson, Dr. Joseph Scheuhammer tepid
Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) Technology 5:15 PM Ann Wollrath, Simon Nash HOT!
BOF: Java Blend Software: Ask the Developer 7:00 PM Tim Nervant tepid
BOF: Java Naming and Directory Services 7:00 PM tepid
BOF: Java Technology Middleware 8:30 PM HOT!
March 26, 1998
Keynote 8:30 AM Jim Mitchell, Eric Schmidt, Billy Edwards, Todd Reece, Bill Joy cold
Application Architecture Insights From Sun's Java Technology Gurus 1:30 PM Stu Stern tepid
Hewlett Packard: Compilation Strategies for Optimized Enterprises Java Technology Performance 2:45 PM Salil Pradhan tepid
JavaServer Toolkit: A Platform for Developing Network Services with Java Technology 4:00 PM Satish Dharmaraj, Kevin Kluge tepid
Project Swing Component Architecture 5:15 PM Hans Muller, Peter Korn, Steve Wilson tepid
March 27, 1998
Keynote 8:30 AM John Gage, Geoffrey Moore HOT!
Object-Oriented Design Patterns 11:00 AM Peter Coad HOT!
Infobus: Java Technology Data Exchange for the Whole Family! 12:15 PM Mark Colan tepid
Building Directory Enabled Applications Using Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) Technology 1:30 PM Scott Seligman HOT!