25 Years of Java: JDK 1.0 to JDK 1.1

airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Wolfgang Weigend (@wolflook) about:

JDK 1.0 and applets, the great "hello, world" main, the fake portability, the Mosaic browser was the break through, the HP-UX workstations, applets and the grey rectangle, the duke artist Java's AppletViewer, AWT event model in JDK 1.0, JDK 1.1 with JDBC, RMI was the baseline for application servers, the great JDBC debate, ODBC-JDBC bridge, JDBC type-2 driver, building chats with Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI), rmic for stub and skeleton generation, rmic vs. grpc, don't forget your history, the history reset, JDK 1.1 introduced inner classes, RMI was not optimized, T3 RMI came with 10 times higher performance, building logistics enterprise applications with JDK 1.1, refactoring of AWT event model in JDK 1.1, JavaBeans and Sun's BeanBox, getters / setters - the reminder of "visual programming", Sun Java Studio, Sun Microsystems trainings, the disappointed student--Enterprise Java Beans are not Java Beans, the unfortunate Enterprise Java Beans and Java Beans naming, Java's introspection vs. reflection, AWT was crucial for Java's success, JDK 1.1 was tiny, the size of Java, using serialized JavaBeans for configuration purposes, unexpected business case with connection pooling, from client server and dedicated connections to middleware and connection pooling, form dedicated to technical user, watching Java from C-perspective, the Systems Conference with huge Java interests, you could use JDK 1.1 for a lot of projects, Java was a game changer, "Karl Klammer" is "Clippy", problematic, distributed garbage collection with RMI, the CORBA vs. RMI battle, the NetDynamics application server, the application servers took over CORBA, parallelisation with Java Collection, pass by value vs. pass by reference with CORBA, RMI over IIOP, IONA's ORBIX vs. Visigenics Visibroker battles, Visual Age For Java and IBM's San Francisco Framework, Symantec Visual Cafe for Java, JBuilder Professional and Enterprise, Java Studio Workshop and Java Studio Creator, Metrowerks Code Warrior for Java, Eclipse and NetBeans, Programmers Paradise, Eclipse killed JBuilder, the JGoodies library, JBCL foundation classes,

Wolfgang Weigend on twitter: @wolflook