From JSP to Rife and From Kotlin to Java

An airhacks.fm conversation with ethauvin (@Erik C. Thauvin) about:
Erik previously on: "#298 The bld Power User", running a
high-traffic link blog using JSP and Tomcat, challenges with
caching and performance, meeting Geert Bevin through discussions
about URL encoding, evaluating and migrating his blog to the Rife
framework, appreciating Rife's lean architecture and built-in
utilities, the appeal and disappointment of Ruby on Rails, using
lightweight Java application servers like Glassfish and Payara,
avoiding heavy dependencies and XML configuration, generating XML
with xdoclet, the advantages of Rife's templating system and code
readability, Erik's journey with Kotlin and reasons for returning
to Java, building a Kotlin URL encoding library with multiplatform
support, the power of Kotlin's multiplatform capabilities,
discussing the BLD build tool and its origins in simplifying build
processes, the complexities of modern Java builds with dependencies
compared to the simplicity of Java EE, considering Ant as an
alternative to Maven, the idea of "Build as Code" and integrating
build logic into applications, Erik's experience converting over 60
projects to bld, challenges of introducing new build tools in
enterprise environments, Erik's automated blog posting system

ethauvin on twitter: @Erik C. Thauvin