I don't want your Thorntail

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ken Finnigan (@kenfinnigan) about:
Commodore 64 in 1984, Commodore 128D in 1986, creating a Star Wars
game, approaching the dark star, a Gateway XT with 20 MB hard drive
and 640kB RAM, playing with DBase IV, Lotus 1-2-3 and Delphi,
implementing software for baseball statistics in 1989, surviving a
Giants game in San Francisco, learning C++, Modula 2 and assembly
programming at university, the JavaONE session marathon, learning
Java in 1999, enjoying Java programming, starting at IBM Global
Services Australian, introduction to the enterprise world with PL
1, Job Control Language (JCL), AIX, CICS and CTG, starting to work
with Java 1.2 at an insurance company, building a quotation engine
in Java, wrapping JNI layer to reuse legacy C++ code, creating the
first web UIs with Java with JSPs and Servlets, PowerBuilder and
Borland JBuilder, enjoying the look and feel of Visual Age for Java
and JBuilder, Symantec Visual Cafe for Java, Sun Studio Java
Workshop had the worst look and feel, writing backend integration
logic with XSLT and XML in Dublin, Apache FOP and Apache Cocoon,
XSLT transformations in browser, enjoying the marquee tag, using
SeeBeyond eWay integration in London, switching to chordiant Java
EE CRM solution, using XDoclet to generate EJBs, from XDoclet to
annotations, wrapping, abstracting and Aspect Oriented Programming
framework, it is hard to find business use cases for AOP, J2EE
already ships with built-in aspects, enterprise architecture and
UML, using IBM Rational Software Modeler for architectures, driving
a truck with tapes as migration, the Amazon Snowmobile Truck, never
underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard disks, "Never
underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
hurtling down the highway", Andrew S. Tanenbaum, building stock
trading platform in Sydney with J2EE, Complex Event Processing
(CEP) with J2EE and JBoss, attending JBoss World in Florida and
meeting Pete Muir, starting with Seam 2 to write a CRM solution for
weddings, contributing to Seam 3, creating annotation-based i18n
solution, joining RedHat consulting, migrating from Oracle
Application Server to JBoss EAP 5, joining RedHat engineering,
leading portlet bridge from JBoss Portal project, starting project
LiveOak, apache sling, starting project WildFly Swarm with Bob
McWhirter, WildFly Swarm vs. WildFly, WildFly Swarm and WildFly -
the size perspective, WildFly Swarm supported hollow jars, hollow
jar allows docker layering, WildFly Swarm was renamed to Thorntail,
Thorntail 4 was a rewrite of the CDI container, Thorntail 4
codebase was used in Quarkus, Quarkus is the evolutionary leap
forward, Quarkus observability and micrometer, working with
OpenTelemetry, OpenTelemetry and micrometer, OpenCensus, Eclipse
MicroProfile and Metrics, micrometer vs. MicroProfile metrics,
GitHub issue regarding custom registry types, airhacks.fm episode
with Romain Manni-Bucau #79 Back to Shared Deployments, starting
with counters and gauges in MicroProfile, metrics in a Java Message
Service (JMS) application, MicroProfile metrics could re-focus on
business metrics, services meshes vs. MicroProfile Fault Tolerance,
Istio is only able to see the external traffic, implementing
business fallbacks with Istio is hard, OpenMetrics and OpenTracing
are merging in OpenTelemetry, MicroProfile OpenTracing comes with a
single annotation and brings the most added value, Jakarta EE
improvements are incremental, Java's project leyden, the
MicroProfile online workshop, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
complement each other, GraalVM and JavaScript, pooling with CDI is
challenging, MicroProfile as layer on top of Jakarta EE, the
smallrye first approach

Ken Finnigan on twitter: @kenfinnigan, Ken's blog: kenfinnigan.me