Conor O'NeillMay 27, 2025

The Java programming language is 30!
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/30_years_ago_java_arrived/

I first heard about Java very soon after it was announced, probably in 1995, when a Sun engineer gave a talk at HP Labs in Bristol.

However, I didn't actually start using Java until 2004. "Struts", and similar weirdness.

We had a brief foray into the cul-de-sac of Applets (running Java UI within a web browser); this was, unfortunately, extremely slow, using an external plug-in. Modern browswers could probably make a decent go at this if they tried again, though in practice that won't now happen.

I'm still programming in Java on the back-end, mostly using Spring Boot. And having to fight the awfulness of JavaScript / TypeScript for front-end work. That, therefore, qualifies me as a 'full-stack' developer nowadays (albeit mostly retired).

I know that Java programming is derided by the glitterati, but it is a useful workhorse which will be around for a while yet.

#Java #Java30 #SpringBoot #Bristol #HPLabs

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Show threadJohn S. Erickson 🙏Nov 29, 2022
@emilynordmann "Well volunteered!" is a perfect response to unsolicited suggestions that a young Brit colleague at #HPLabs taught me 20+ years ago...
John S. Erickson 🙏Nov 21, 2022
Fun to read this blog post about @epimorphics at 13! Congrats to my former #HPLabs colleagues who realized their #SemanticWeb #LinkedData #OpenData dreams! https://www.epimorphics.com/epimorphics-at-thirteen/
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When the eight co-founders launched Epimorphics in November 2009 they had no idea what they were letting themselves in for. All of the team had spent most of the 10 previous years nurturing the nascent Semantic Web technology and thought it was very important to develop, but we didn’t know much about business.

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Show threadJohn S. Erickson 🙏Nov 19, 2022
@socrates I’m reminded of efforts for machine-readable content (IPR) policies in the late 90s-early 00s. Some of us at #HPLabs wrote about this 20 years ago for the #W3C https://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/pp/hp-erickson.html
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