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Welcome to the sixty-sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta EE 9.1 is on track for the mid-May release. GlassFish 6.1 now passes the TCK and a release candidate will be made available this week. Meanwhile, the work with planning for the next Jakarta EE release goes on. We are...

Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation spoke to leading Java developers around the world to discuss why they rely on Jakarta EE and the unique benefits of using Jakarta EE technologies. Their input is captured in our white paper, which describes the important advantages Jakarta EE offers today and...

Welcome to the sixty-fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It looks like Jakarta EE 9.1 may be delivered sometime in May. The Jakarta EE Platform project discussed the possibility for a release date in mid-May at this week’s platform call. There are still a couple of details to be sorted...

Welcome to the sixty-fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! $ java -version openjdk version "16" 2021-03-16 OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 16+36) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK (build 16+36, mixed mode, sharing) Java 16 contains a lot of goodies for us, so go ahead and download it to give it...

Welcome to the sixty-third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We have tried to keep the overhead to a minimum with the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process ( EFSP). Compared to other specification processes, it is pretty lightweight. Both the Jakarta EE Specification Process ( JESP) and the MicroProfile Specification Process (...

Welcome to the sixty-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the major changes introduced with Jakarta EE over how it used to be is that the TCKs are available for free to anyone that wants to certify their implementation. I described how to do this in Compatible Implementations. This...

Welcome to the sixty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Tanja and I have been touring JUGs over the last couple of months. So far, we have visited JUGs (virtually) in India, South Africa, Sweden, Serbia, the USA, Poland, Germany, and Spain. And we don’t want to stop there! Please reach...

Welcome to the sixtieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned last week, the release plan for Jakarta EE 9.1 has been published. The target release date is the end of March 2021. GlassFish 6.1 now compiles and runs on Java SE 11, and the work with getting it...

Welcome to the fifty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I wrote a post about Compatible implementations of Jakarta EE specifications and how to get listed on the specification pages. This week, we got LeadPony Joy 2.1.0 listed as a compatible implementation of Jakarta JSON Processing 2.0. Great work...

Welcome to the fifty-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was the weekend of Fosdem. I had a Jakarta EE talk on Saturday in the Foojay devroom. The talk was recorded and I was looking forward to wearing my new, nice T-shirt on the video during the Q&A. A last-minute...