Programming is a journey. To achieve effective, clean, easy-to-read, and beautiful Java code, you have to practice programming every day. This session shares some lessons collected along 15 years of Java programming. It includes live code examples of how to write truly object-oriented code; when to make a type (and how to use it on JPA providers); how to properly use encapsulation and polymorphism in "ifless" programming; how to properly take advantage of the enum power; and how to use some very useful open source libraries such as Google Guava and Joda-Time to achieve clean Java code. Session presented at JavaOne Latin America 2012.