Code Monkeyism

Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt

Did Bruce Tate write this?

I was researching the history of Java - or better the history of my Java development. After some playing around with applets my Java development history started in a commercial project with the Java Web Server and servlets. And I found this:

In his book, Bruce says: “In the halls of Netscape, server-side Java emerged. Servlets (a term originally coined by O’Reilly) made server-driven Internet applications available to application developers. Sun capitalized on this movement quickly with a standard, and an open source implementation of a servlet engine called Tomcat.”

Did Bruce really write this completly wrong view of servlet history in “Beyond Java”?

Update: Bruce does presentations too.
I’d like to have closures too. And each. And all. And, well you get it.

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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The first commercial server was JavaWebServer (about 400 $). I used it in my first servlet project. JWDK was the development environment from Sun. I think Sun donated JWDK to apache -> this was the beginning of Tomcat.

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