How Java WebSocket Implementation Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Justin Lee (@evanchooly) about:

C-64, the Run Magazine with source code, summer olympics - the joystick destroyer, coding "triangle with trigonometry" in Basic, computer were like science fiction, random access file in C-64 basic, IBM PCjr BASIC, writing American Football simulator, starting Turbo Pascal, learning Oberon and C, NAG and fortran, loosing a sub tree, the Forth programming language, starting Java on HP-UX machines, starting with JDK 1.0.2, the amazing Sun branding, Software Development Lifecycle - SDLC, writing software costs estimation in Java, 3D modelling in TCL/TK, working with TogetherJ, using vim professionally, starting with Eclipse and JBuilder, building systems for online grocery shopping in 1998, using jhtml with Dynamo ATG, building an own application server with own persistence, using the blaze rules engine, using Java Server Pages with Jasper compiler, JSP was a weekend project, JSPs could be sold SSR, working on Glassfish and Project Grizzly, implementing WebSocket in Java on application servers, using Comet communication style with Atmosphere, using GlassFish with grizzly for long polling, writing unit tests for WebSockets in a Chrome client, Tyrus took the Grizzly implementation as base, Dany Coward wrote a Web Socket book, SPDY and Bosh were the bases of HTTP/2, the sticky session Web Sockeet problem, using WebSockets for Java application servers clustering, starting at Squarespace, Squarespace used Java on the backed any MySQL / MongoDB, fronted was implemented in YUI (Yahoo UI), maintaining Morphia for MongoDB, joining Red Hat and working on quarkus, working on Quarkus MongoDB integration, Quarkus Kotlin integration, eventually and evancholy

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