How JAX-RS Happened

airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Paul Sandoz (@paulsandoz) about:

bbc micro, Archimedes was the start of ARM, the Elite game, writing a painting application, graphics protocol emulation, studying cybernetics, remote control of production factories, developing a VR headset, using Silicon Graphics machines, building a 3D engine, working on Sun Microsystems on the CDE environment, switching to XML technology group at Sun Microsystems, Apache Jelly, SOAP was the past of least resistance, the WS-* specifications, Roy Fielding and Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture style, starting to work on JAX-RS, the Convention over Configuration trade-offs, joining CloudBees to work Kohsuke Kawaguchi "#143 How Hudson and Jenkins happened", starting at Oracle’s Java team to work on project Jigsaw and Streams

Paul Sandoz on twitter: @paulsandoz