How Struts 2 Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Lukasz Lenart (@lukaszlenart)
about: Playing platform games on Commodore VIC-20, the desire to
write a game, starting to program on Commodore C 64 in Basic, the
airhacks.fm podcast episode about magic: #106 The Open-Closed
Principle and Lots of Magic, a series of if-else statements,
learning Pascal then Delphi on a PC, writing network tools in
Delphi, starting at ZUS and Delphi Automotive Poland automotive,
working as network engineer with Novell Netware, running Java on
Novell Netware, Java, Netware Directory Services (NDS) and LDAP,
Eric Schmidt was CEO at Novell, the Java San Francisco Framework
from IBM, using JBuilder for NDS Java development, learning PHP for
production monitoring, using PHP with Common Gateway Interface CGI,
migrating from PHP to Java, JSP and Struts, discovering robotics as
automative engineer, the kuka robots company, combining Struts 1
with Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) for pragmatic reasons, using
Struts and Tiles, building production forecasts with Struts 1 for a
Manufacturing Execution System (MES), NetBeans Days in Warsaw,
Gdansk and Posen, JBoss project for dial tone discovery, starting
at SoftwareMill, SoftwareMill created Hibernate Envers, the first
contribute to Struts 2 and NetBeans, WebWork was the beginning of
Struts 2, WebWork is used by Jira - a special version of Struts,
Sony Europe is using Struts, a basic Struts 2 application, Struts 2
and MVC implementation, Struts 2 support CDI Dependency Injection,
vuejs vs. struts 2 contributions comparison, using Java backend web
frameworks as SSR / Server Side Rendering, disconnecting JSPs from
Struts, MicroProfile Training workshop - rewriting the blog engine
in a workshop: https://microprofile.training, it doesn't make any
sense to run wikipedia as a SPA, the equifax remote code execution
and the patch, the OGNL was used to open a port, is there a reason
to learn Scala if you Java 16? quarkus as the next generation
runtime,

Lukasz Lenart on twitter: @lukaszlenart, Lukasz' blog