An airhacks.fm conversation with Tanja Obradovic (@TanjaEclipse) about:

The amazing rainbow wires, obsessed with tetris, programming: seeing immediate results is great,

basic, pascal, fortran, c, c++ and FoxPro, Smalltalk in Canada, exposed to programming,

pascal did more than basic, SmallTalk is clean and logical,

object oriented programming was hyped,

The Object People,

programming over electronics, using TopLink to access databases,

messaging between object was a challenge for a C++ programmer,

objects talk like people,

there are no blocks in Java,

meta inheritance in SmallTalk and Java,

business driven decisions matter, it is easier for C and C++ programmers to learn Java, than SmallTalk,

working with TopLink as consultant,

the acquisition of the consulting The Object People by BEA,

the TopLink product was acquired by WebGain,

Oracle acquired WebGain,

Oracle acquired BEA,

TopLink was migrated to Java by the Object People,

enjoying to work as team lead,

now its time to start programming again with MicroProfile and Jakarta EE,

joining Eclipse Foundation,

preparing Jakarta EE for the cloud era,

Jakarta EE is a huge amount of work,

starting to work on Jakarta EE 9,

the big bang move to jakarta.* namespace,

identifying the priorities was a major challenge,

addressing one problem a time with more frequent Jakarta EE releases is the preferred approach,

Jakarta EE and Java EE were synonyms for complexity,

the Jakarta ONE livestream,

Tanja's blog: https://blogs.eclipse.org/blogs/tanja-obradovic