Bash, Apple and EJB, TomEE, Geronimo and Jakarta EE

An airhacks.fm conversation with David Blevins (@dblevins) about: Code Generation with bash, bash is your best friend, scripting as documentation, learn first, then automate, an opportunity to work on an EJB container, working on EJBOSS, working with the great Richard Monson-Haefel, co-founding openEJB with Richard, bluestone and gemstone servers, exolab was an incubator, openJMS, openEJB and castor, working with Apple to integrate openEJB with Apple's WebObjects, openEJB on Apple's WebObjects box, from experience to cash, the concept of isolated containers in openEJB, Dain Sundstrom wrote CMP for JBoss, Rickard Öberg started at openEJB for two weeks, creating Geronimo in 2003 as competitor to JBoss, announcing Geronimo at theserverside.com, Geronimo was over engineered, good idea at a bad time is a bad idea, Convention over Configuration vs. explicit configuration, openEJB's Java Serialization was faster than WebLogic's T3, Geronimo's configuration was not portable, joining gluecode, gluecode was sold to IBM, Jason van Zyl was the creator of Maven, Jason van Zyl created Sonatype, jelly - the executable XML, Maven 2 rollout was tested with openEJB, switching from codehouse to Apache, 600 people were working on WebSphere, Dan Allen was working on arquillian, Arquillian used internally openEJB, JBoss 7 became Wildfly, creating TomEE after JavaOne 2010, TomEE stopped consulting, tomitribe provides support for TomEE, Tomcat, ActiveMQ, TomEE 9 starts in 2 seconds, TomEE passes the TCK with 64MB RAM, TomEE lost access to TCK in 2013 before Java EE 7, TomEE got access in December 2019, TomEE is working on MicroProfile 4.0, TomEE uses Apache Johnzon JSON-P, TomEE uses Apache projects to implement Jakarta EE and MicroProfile specification, TomEE uses BeanValidation for JWT validation, using BeanValidation for authorization with custom data in JWT, Tribestream - the API Gateway, David Blevins on twitter: @dblevins and David's company: tomitribe