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Ivar Grimstad: Java for Everything
Duke’s Corner Podcast with Ivar Grimstad, who is a Java Champion, a JCP Executive Committee Member, and a Jakarta EE Developer Advocate. Ivar is based in Sweden but travels to over 40 events a year talking about Java and Open Source with thousands of developers.
He feels passionately about contributing to Java projects as the best way for young developers to learn Java and connect with the community, especially at Java conferences. Ivar has been working with Java professionally since 2000, but he's been solving problems with code since he was a little kid around 12 or 13 years old.
"Java has been my go-to language for everything!" he says. "It's been here for 30 years and it'll probably be around for 30 more!"
Transcript
00:00
Ivar Grimstad, welcome. Welcome to Duke's Corner.
0:02
Thank you, Jaymon. Happy to be here.
0:04
It's great to see you here. We met a couple of times. There was some recently at some conferences in Japan and elsewhere, and I thought it would be great to have a little session here on Duke's Corner to find out what you do. I see you are doing a lot of conferences.
0:21
You do a lot of travel and stuff. I sat in on your session in Tokyo, I guess about six months or so ago. And the audience was really into it. And so I figured, hey, I want to talk to this guy for this podcast here. So you're in Sweden and you're a developer advocate for Jakarta EE.
0:39
So let's start off with that. So what do you do as a dev advocate for Jakarta EE?
0:45
yeah so before i get into that i actually have a you you said we were meeting at conferences and stuff and i think we met i can't remember it and i certainly i'm sure you can't either but i'm pretty sure that we must have met at Java 1 in the Open Solaris launch sometime in the early 2000s.
1:07
Because I remember I was at Java 1, because you used to work with Open Solaris, right?
1:13
Yeah, yeah, I was at Simon. Open Solaris was my baby. Yeah, so I...
1:19
That was before like MacBooks were a thing and stuff. And so I went to Office Depot across the street from Moscone and I bought one of these small, you know, the small laptops, the mini laptops that had some version of Windows on it. And I just unpacked it,
1:37
brought it down to the Open Solaris Lounge and somebody there gave me a USB drive and I just plugged it in. I never booted it on Windows.
1:45
Oh, okay.
1:48
So since you were working with that, you must have been there. I got some really good help from the people in the lounge there to set up the drivers and stuff to get the keyboard to work. Yeah.
2:01
Oh, that's a great story. Yeah, this goes way back. That was so much fun. We had a bootable CD, and we had a USB, and that was like gold back then. Everything has changed now. Wow. Yeah.
2:18
Well, so, yeah, so Jakari, that's what I work with on a daily basis. And as I said, a lot of my work is speaking at conferences. So I travel around and do talks. So, yeah. That's basically what I do. Jakarta EE, that's the continuation of Java EE that used to be under the JCP at Sun and Oracle.
2:47
So that was moved over to Eclipse Foundation. And we continued it there and rebranded it to Jakarta EE from Java EE. I was so lucky to get into the role of the developer advocate there. So that's what I'm doing these days.
3:01
Cool. I mean, so if we crossed paths way back with Open Solaris at Sun, so you've been in this business for a while. You've been involved in open source and advocacy and community building basically for a long time.
3:15
Oh, yes. Yes. I thought back before I ended university or graduated from universit
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