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From YouTube: Tribute to Bill Shannon | JakartaOne Livestream 2020
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Ed Bratt pays tribute to a open source giant, Bill Shannon, who passed earlier in 2020 after a battle with cancer. Bill's legacy lives on and his impact on Java EE cannot be measured. Bill will be missed terribly in the Jakarta EE Community.
A
Okay,
I
think
we're
live
now,
and
I
welcome
you
once
again
to
this
session.
In
studio,
jakarta
e,
I
have
a
special
honor.
I
would
say
today
to
introduce
ed
brad
from
oracle
and
to
thank
him
for
taking
the
time
and
talk
about
a
giant
in
our
industry,
which
is
bill
shannon
and
his
legacy
in
java
and
jakarta.
A
B
B
B
B
At
home
with
computing,
and
he
liked
to
teach
people
how
to
how
to
compute
and
how
to
write
programs,
he
even
somewhat
so
much
so
that
he
even
kept
doing
it
after
he
graduated
from
high
school.
He
came
back
and
continued
on
as
a
mentor
in
this
program
for
his
high
school
at
high
school.
He
met
his
soon-to-be
wife,
karen
shirler.
She
attended
lakewood
high
school
also.
B
I
don't
think
she
went
to
the
same
colleges
as
bill,
but
they
were
close
enough
and
then
they
got
married
in
1979.,
bill's
courier
started
at
case
western
reserve
university
because
he
knew
how
to
program
he
started
off
by
programming
as
a
as
a
paid
intern.
He
wrote
some
programs
for
their
metallurgy
department.
B
She
he
after
doing
that
for
a
couple
semesters.
He
took
up
a
position
with
the
case
western
reserve
computer
services
group,
and
he
initially
was
writing
programs
on
a
ti
960,
which
was
quite
a
an
old
beast,
and
then
he
graduated
to
something
called
the
harris.
Slash
six.
I
think
the
colloquially
they
called
that
the
slash
six
that
was
about
that
computer
dates
from
about
1976,
and
it
has
it's
quite
a
quite
a
beast
one
of
the
last
computers
that
was
based
on
discrete
component
technology.
B
While
doing
that
he
was
using
a
compiler
that
was
written
by
sam
leffler
and
the
a
shell
that
had
been
ported
by
rob
gingle
who's.
He
would
maintain
friendship
with
for
his
whole
life
at
his
graduation
because
of
all
the
work
he
did.
He
was
given
a
meritorious
service
reward.
His
first
job
was
digital
corporation.
B
B
A
group
system
for
posting
was
just
growing
by
leaps
and
browns
in
the
early
early
80s
karen
and
bill
kept
these
test
text
maps
of
these
systems,
and
you
can
just
sort
of
see
how
explosively
they
grew
here.
So
this
is
each
of
these
words.
Here
is
a
ucp
site
using
that
site
in
february
of
82
it
all
fit
on
one
page.
In
october
later
that
year
it
had
expanded
to
three
pages
and
by
1984
it
was
all
to
six
whole
pages.
B
B
After
a
short
time,
bill
joy
had
come
back
and
he
he
recruited
build
his
son
microsystems
and
he
joined
son
as
employee
number
11
and
they
they
worked
on
unix
for
some
workstations
and
computers.
He
was
a
key
contributor
to
sun
os
and
which
later
turned
into
solaris
after
solaris
was
something
he
sort
of
moved
into
java
development.
He
tried
several
projects
and
he
really
settled
into
enterprise
java.
B
As
you
know,
sun
was
acquired
in
2009
by
oracle,
but
bill
was
he
was
also
quite
I
mean
he
was
never
very
far
from
these
april
pools
hygiene
some.
So
I
got
a
couple
of
tell-all
photos
here
that
I
lifted
off
the
internet
right.
So
this
was
a
they
disassembled,
this
vw
bug
and
they
moved
it
into
into
the
saw
into
the
office
here
and
they're
still
standing
in
the
background.
B
B
This
prank
equal,
fool's
prank,
and
then
they
it's
called
a
golf
green
in
in
this,
was,
I
think,
stopping
doing
some
somebody
else's
office
that
they
shared
and
there's
bill
again
standing
in
the
background,
so
he
wasn't
all
seriousness,
but
he
also
was
a
family
man,
and
you
know
he
his
wife
karen
when
they
moved
out
here.
You
know,
basically,
they
just
packed
up
everything
and
came
to
to
the
west
coast.
B
She
initially
worked
to
pursue
as
a
contractor
and
then
she
joined
as
a
regular
employee,
and
she
did
many
many
things.
A
lot
of
training,
a
lot
of
helping
people
understand
what
unix
was
and
then
she
left
son
when
their
first
daughter
kim
was
born
and
then
their
second
second
battery
amy
was
born
in
the
mid
90s
bill's
role
in
enterprise
java.
Was
you
know
some
just?
B
I
can't
even
really
sort
of
puts
any
bounds
on
it.
He
led
or
co-lead
co-ed
every
java
ee
version
that
was
released
from
j2e1.2
in
december
of
1999
all
the
way
up
to
java
e8
in
august
of
2017.,
all
the
while
he
was
the
java
mail,
spec
and
implementation
lead
in.
In
terms
of
the
contribution
to
jakarta
into
eclipse
foundation.
B
He
worked
tirelessly
to
make
sure
that
all
that
con
all
the
contribution
details,
all
of
the
legal
requirements
were
met
so
that
we
could
bring
this
over
successfully
and
the
first
jakarta
ea
release
was
september
of
2019,
so
you
know
without
bill.
We
wouldn't
be
here
for
sure
we
wouldn't
be
here.
I
I
suspect
there
would
have
there
might
have
been
an
enterprise
java,
but
it's
hard
to
imagine
that
we
would
have
made
this
gotten
over
the
hurdle
of
getting
us
to
to
eclipse
foundation.
B
Bill's
sort
of
his
penchant
was,
you
know,
clearly
solid
engineering.
He
he
really
appreciated
written
clarity,
and
you
could
see
that
in
his
work,
he
he
devoured
technical
content
and
he
gave
ruthlessly
honest
feedback
and
if
you,
you
know,
browse
the
internet,
you
know
just
search
for
google
for
various
little
people.
Who've
left
thoughts
on
bill.
You
might
you'll
see
some
of
that.
B
You
may
have
experience
over
yourself,
but
he
was
also
extremely
extremely
patient,
at
least
with
me,
and
always
willing
to
spend
time
to
educate
me,
and
I
think
some
of
that
stands
from
his.
You
know
from
his
history
and
he
he
just
thrived
on
collaboration
right.
That
was,
you
know.
That
was
the
thing
that
that
he
knew
you
were.
B
You
were
always
stronger
as
a
collective
than
you
would
be
as
any
individual
and
that
went
for
individual
people
as
well
as
organizations,
and
you
can
see
that
reflected
in
how
enterprise
java
is
his
structure.
So
this
is
my
last
slide
here.
I
just
want
to
leave
you
with
some
some
links
to
sites
where
you
could
read
more
about
bill's
life.
This
is
a
picture
from
last
december.
Almost
a
year
ago,
now
bill
karen,
his
wife,
kim
and
amy,
and
his
dog
angus.
B
B
If
I
can,
if
there's
any
any
questions,
I
will
post
all
those
slides
for
anybody,
who's
interested
and
will
there's
a
remembrance,
page
forum
or
bill
that
will
I'll
fill
in.
I
was
I
I
have
to
say
I
was
really
kind
of
struggling
to
get
these
written
down
and
you
know
it's
he's
had
a
his
wife
said.
You
know
he
was
really
tall
and
he
had
big
shoes.
You
know
he'll
have
a
hard
time
filling
those,
but
in
any
case
that's
the
that's
my
tribute.
I
am.