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It looks like I can add my name to the very large list of people not speaking at JavaOne this year. I submitted a proposal for a BoF session along with Jack Herrington (CodeGeneration Network, Code Generation in Action) on Code Generation in Java. I thought we had a really solid proposal and in interesting topic. With the authors of the only two books on code generation to come out this year (that I can think of) I thought we would have easily made it in, but I guess not.

Oddly, every person I've talked to that submitted a proposal was rejected. Why? Lots of extremely high quality submissions? A biased selection process? Not talking about whatever Sun decides is important this year? Until they announce the selected talks, it's hard to say why. I'm anxious to see if they have something good or if it will be another dud like last year's JavaOne.