From Competitive Gaming to Java EE API Mavenization

An airhacks.fm conversation with Romain Grecourt (@rgrecourt) about: started with Apple 2 Computer at the age of 8, starting games from command line, writing HTML on Pentium 90, the blink and marquee tags, creating a website with JavaScript and HTML and Netscape Composer, icefaces and icebrowser written in Java, from animated GIFs to Macromedia Flash, creating a website for a hockey club in Flash, computer parts for website creation, creating computers from parts, sports with Counter-Strike, blocking the telephone line with a modem, finding opponents on QuakeNet IRC, becoming an admin on a channel with a bot, starting with IRC scripting, winning Counter-Strike tournaments, writing a "bouncer" bot, installing a dedicated Half-Life server on mandriva linux, redoing the Counter-Strike menu in Flash for the team website, Programmable logic controller (PLC) based automation assignment, the desire for 100 FPS, creating a selective cat trap door with magnets and using SolidWorks, C programming to control a disk drive motor, starting at the wrong college, switching to software engineering college, starting with "french" C++ then switching to the real thing, working with wireshark and assembler, C, C++, Linux, Emacs over Java, reading stack traces is great, starting a web services projects with Java and Axis 2, starting with Maven 1, scripting a tree shaking functionality for JAR creation with make, starting at Serli to implement the Java EE security spec at Jonas Application Server, working with GlassFish to support application versioning, working with NetBeans, Maven 2 and Subversion, becoming a Maven and NetBeans fanboy, Serli worked with Alexis MP (#23 From GlassFish to Java in Google Cloud) GlassFish application versioning was announced at JavaONE, starting at Oracle at GlassFish team in Prague, implementing OSGi and HK2, specialising at GlassFish Maven 3 builds, packaging the Java EE API jars, Java EE 6 API without the implementation, introducing conventions for Java EE packaging, Romain Grecourt on twitter: @rgrecourt