Ivar Grimstad's blog

For EclipseCon 2022, we were back in Ludwigsburg again. Since the two previous editions of EclipseCon were virtual, this was the first time since 2019. On Monday before the main conference, we had the Jakarta EE Community Day. The agenda featured a lot of interesting talks and discussion topics. Thanks...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and forty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! JavaOne 2022 is a wrap! You can read all about it in my post titled JavaOne 2022. I am writing this Hashtag Jakarta EE at San Francisco Airport on my way home. The post will be published about...

JavaOne is BACK! Even if the 2022 edition was a bit smaller than we are used to for JavaOne, it still had the good old JavaOne community feeling. It didn’t really matter that it had moved from San Francisco to Las Vegas. The Caesar’s Forum is an excellent venue for...

Early Sunday morning, a small group of developers got in a car and headed for the Red Rock Canyon. After navigating through the mazes of casinos on the Strip, they made it there. Among the five, there were three runners, Mattias, Rustam, and Ivar (myself if you were in doubt)...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and forty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Platform project is preparing a poll that will be sent out to the individual specification projects. Some of the things the project would like to have answered are which Java SE version the specification project...

What an event Devoxx Belgium is! 3200 attendees, more than 200 speakers, and five days packed with awesome content. And, of course, the hallway track! Kinepolis in Antwerp during Devoxx is definitely the place to be if you are a Java developer interested in interacting with the best. My talk...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and forty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Jakarta EE Platform Project started with weekly platform calls in 2019. The calls are open for everyone to participate and usually gather somewhere between 15 and 20 participants. The discussions are usually pretty lively and cover general...

JavaOne in Las Vegas is just a couple of weeks away. As it turns out, Jakarta EE will have a pretty good presence at the conference. My three Jakarta EE-themed sessions are: Jakarta EE BOF [ BOF4038] Tuesday, October 18 at 18:45 Jakarta EE 10: Simplicity for Modern and Lightweight...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and forty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After Jakarta EE 10 was released, the platform project immediately started looking ahead toward Jakarta EE 11. Here are some of the issues and epics identified so far: Baseline Java SE level for Jakarta EE 11 Requirements for...

JConf Dev 2022 (aka DEEP. DISH. JAVA.) felt like a smaller version of Devnexus. It sure has the potential to grow into something more prominent once the fine citizens of Chicago discover what they missed out on in 2022. Stay tuned for 2023, and make sure to grab your ticket...