From CDI TCK to Quarkus MCP Server
From airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien by Adam Bien
May 22, 2026 · 60 min · Episode 397
About this episode
The episode features a conversation with Martin Kouba discussing various topics related to Java, CDI TCK, and Quarkus.
An airhacks.fm conversation with Martin Kouba ( @martunek ) about: ZX Spectrum Didaktik clone, Basic listings from ABC magazine, Laser Squad and Wall Breaker games, writing a Pascal fantasy strategy game called Fury as a teenager, first Java 1.4 contact at university, pushing Java 5 annotations against XML configuration in a first telco job, OC4J as Oracle Application Server with Orion lineage, switching to JBoss , seam framework as glue between backend and frontend, Hibernate , reporting a Seam security issue and being invited to Red Hat, CDI TCK migration from JBoss Test Harness to arquillian and from Subversion to GitHub, writing CDI and Bean Validation TCK with XML-based assertion extraction from the specification text, normative specifications producing high-quality LLM code generation for CDI, JAX-RS and JPA , prototype-first approach to writing API specifications, deprecation annotations needing since-version, removal-version and replacement, asynchronous CDI events and fireAsync, transactional observers, Java SE CDI container standardization and its removal from the MicroProfile Core profile, joining the Quarkus team from day one, building ArC as the build-time CDI…
People in this episode
Host: Adam Bien
Guest: Martin Kouba
Topics covered
- CDI TCK
- Quarkus
- Java
- API specifications
- Software development
- Game development
Keywords
- CDI
- Java
- Quarkus
- Seam
- Hibernate
- API
- Game development
- Software engineering
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Red Hat, JBoss, Quarkus, Oracle, Apache
Products: ZX Spectrum Didaktik, Laser Squad, Wall Breaker, Fury, Hibernate, Seam, Qute, Quartz, MCP Java SE STDIO server
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