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David's agenda for JavaPolis. If everything goes well, I'll be there too. Since David posted his agenda, I noticed that I hadn't even looked at it. So a brief glance would set my agenda like this:

• JSR-176: Forthcoming Java Programming Language Features by Neal Gafter [ Sun Microsystems ]. Always nice to know what will be coming. Plus, the other sessions look a bit less interesting for me: I've no J2ME experience, ebXML is something I won't use in the short term, and I think I've worked enough with Struts to know what's going to be told there.
• AspectWerkz - fluid AOP for Java by Jonas Boner [LogicAspects]. I've heard some fuzz about AspectWerkz. This might tell me what it is about.
• Java Performance Tuning by Jack Shirazi & Kirk Pepperdine [ JavaPerformanceTuning.com ]: something most Java developers aren't into (me included): performance. And when performance issues do rise, you don't have a clue where to begin. So I hope these guys hand some pointers.
• Relational Persistence For Idiomatic Java by Christian Bauer [Hibernate]: "Idiomatic Java" looks like a weird term, but Hibernate is interesting. I hope to include it in our project RSN, so let's try to learn something here.
• For the last session that day, I have no idea. I might visit Werner Ramaekers, just to be able to put a face on the blog.
• JSR-127: Java Server Faces by Craig R. McClanahan [ Sun Microsystems ]: new and upcoming, thus interesting.
• Know thy enemy by Andre Marien [ Ubizen ]: I know a few people who work at Ubizen. Hope to meet them here.
• SCRUM: A Methodology to Keep the Team Going by Joseph Pelrine [MetaProg]: never heard of it, but lately, I'm becoming more and more interested in how to communicate with people.
• JAAS, authentication and user-based authorization on the Java platform by Frank Piessens [ K.U.L.]: Again one for the speaker. Frank has been my teacher at KULeuven for some courses, and he's a very nice guy. We've even almost been brothers-in-law, but that's another story altogether. (Hey, he seems to have made it to professor now. Congrats, Frank!)
• What AOP brings to the Java developer by Wouter Joosen[ KULeuven ]: I hope to finally find some meat on the bone about AOP here. Please other examples than "logging at crosspoints (or whatever they're called)".

As you can see, to me, these events are mostly about meeting people. Some of the sessions might raise a "aha, I have to look into that!" experience, but without people, they won't be the same. So I hope to see you there...