Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week’s trip to Amsterdam and the Picnic Java Meetup was a success. Next up is IBM TechXchange in Las Vegas. While I am on the other side of the Atlantic, I am going to have a pretty busy...

I initiated my Fall 2023 Conference season with a short trip to Amsterdam to speak at Picnic Java Meetup. There were two talks on related topics. I did a talk on how to migrate from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3, focusing on the part Jakarta EE plays in...

This article was first published in the August 2023 Eclipse Foundation Newsletter. The work on defining the next major update of Jakarta EE has been going on for a while. Back in January 2023, the Jakarta EE Working Group Steering Committee defined the high-level guidelines for Jakarta EE 11. One...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m back! From vacation, that is. The upcoming weeks will be pretty busy with travels, starting softly on Wednesday with a short trip to Amsterdam for the Picnic Java Meetup. After that, I will be going overseas for IBM...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I wrote that Jakarta Data will be included in Jakarta EE 11. The vote passed with flying colors. Currently, there is a vote going on in the Jakarta EE Platform Project to decide whether it should be...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m currently on vacation, so this will be a rather short one. As you recall from last week (i.e. if you read my post then…), there was a vote going on whether to include new specifications in Jakarta...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! For the first time in a while, I won’t list specifications with plans approved, or under review. They are all done! Well, almost…the Jakarta EE Platform (PR), Jakarta EE Web Profile (PR), and Jakarta EE Core Profile (PR) specifications...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are finally there! All plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 are done (Snapshot from Sunday, August 6, 2023): Plan ApprovedJakarta Annotations 3.0Jakarta Authentication 3.1Jakarta Authorization 3.0Jakarta Bean Validation 3.1Jakarta Concurrency 3.1Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1Jakarta Data 1.0 *Jakarta...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The weekly update on the current status of plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11. (Snapshot from Sunday, July 30, 2023): Plan ApprovedJakarta Authentication 3.1Jakarta Authorization 3.0Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1Jakarta Data 1.0 *Jakarta Expression Language 6.0...

This year, we are expanding the Community Day concept at EclipseCon with Community for Java Developers. It is a full day filled with talks, demos, and discussions in two tracks with a focus on open-source, vendor-neutral technologies in the Java space. All this for €40 ONLY! (If you are attending...