Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The Release Review for Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile has started! According to the process, it will conclude on April 7 at the latest. When I write this, seven out of ten members have voted +1, which means that...

JavaOne 2025 returned to the Bay Area as a standalone event. It was held at the Oracle Conference Center at the Oracle Campus in Redwood Shores. While significantly smaller than it used to be, it was an excellent revival of the conference. The event team managed to create an extremely...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m on my way home after JavaOne 2025. As usual, I will cover the conference in a separate post shortly. There was so much going on during this hectic week, so I haven’t had time to sit down and...

The 2025 Jakarta EE Developer Survey is now open! This annual survey plays a key role in gathering insights from the global enterprise Java community to help shape the future of Jakarta EE. Whether you’re a developer, architect, or business leader working with Java, your input is essential in guiding...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta NoSQL 1.0 has passed its release review and is now publicly available. This is a major milestone for the project. Congrats to the team! It seems like this is the week of good news. The Jakarta EE 11...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived home from Devnexus 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The upcoming week, I will stay at home before going to JavaOne 2025 in Redwood Shores, California. Check out my past and upcoming conference on my Jakarta EE...

Devnexus 2025 is a wrap!. This conference, run by Atlanta Java User Group is one of my absolute favourite conferences. There is so much going on and the hallway track is so fun. It has to be with such an amazing speaker lineup. This year, as the previous years, we...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy of Hashtag Jakarta EE! While the work is being wrapped up on the TCK for Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile, we the planning for Jakarta EE 12 is entering a new stage. Jared Anderson, in his capacity of the release lead for Jakarta...

Boston Java Users was the last stop of my mini-tour of US East Coast JUGs. Quite a crowd gathered at Oracle’s premises in Burlington for pizza and tech talks. The event started with a lightning talk about LLMs by Srijha Kalyan. She even did a demo of DeepSeek on her...

The second stop on my US East JUG Tour was Connecticut JUG. Ryan Cuprak has been the JUG-Leader of this group since 2003 and is still going strong. This was their second in-person meeting since the pandemic. The location of the event was at the beautiful campus of Trinity College...