Ben is a true Java guru who works from New Relic’s European development center in Barcelona. He is also a Java Champion, a three-time JavaOne Rock Star speaker and a prolific author of Java books, including “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” and lead author of “Optimizing Java” and the new edition of “Java in A Nutshell.” He spent six years as a member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee (aka the JCP EC) helping define standards for the Java ecosystem