If you‘re a developer coming to JavaOne this year, visit the Solaris pods (#737 and #739) at the Sun booth to check out what the most advanced operating system on the planet has to offer.

Bring us your Java™ applications (on a CD-ROM, USB drive or a plain old laptop with an ethernet card) and we‘ll use Solaris 10 to improve their performance. If we can‘t find any additional performance gains for your app, you‘ll win a cool prize such as an iPod or a Sony PSP.

Please bear in mind that this only applies to real world applications, “Hello World” and benchmarks don‘t really count, the basic rules are: 1) This applies to real-world applications which serve a useful purpose in a production environment only. 2) Your application must contain at least 2,000 lines of *code*. 3) Your application should run with JVM 1.5 or later. 4) If your application runs in an application server, it must be the latest version of Sun Java System Application Server, BEA Weblogic, or IBM WebSphere. If your app doesn't meet these requirements, come over anyway, we‘ll take a shot at it but if we don‘t get an improvement, you don‘t get a prize.

The Legal Stuff™ Offer open to all conference attendees 18 years of age or older, except employees of Sun Microsystems and residents of countries subject to US embargo. Offer valid only while supplies last.

Last year, we worked on 16 applications with *15* of those getting performance increases of between 5% and 280% so it's worth a look.