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The second edition of the Jalapeño unconference was held in Cancun, Mexico September 13-14. The intention by having it this weekend was to get the Mexican Java community to be able to bring their family for the long weekend since September 15 is a holiday in Mexico. This didn’t really...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I attended Community Over Code 2025 in Minneapolis. And, as I am writing this, I am in Cancun for this year’s edition of Jalapeño. Jakarta EE 12 moves forward toward the first milestone. We are still in...

Community Over Code is a very community oriented conference, and the 2025 edition was no exception. It is by and for the ASF committers and projects. The usual greeting phrase is not “What is your name?” , “Where are you from?” ,or “Where do you work?”, but rather “What (Apache)...

The OpenHarmony Technical Conference in Florence on September 3, 2025, served as a pivotal gathering, showcasing a vibrant and rapidly expanding ecosystem for smart devices. Far more than just a series of technical talks, the event highlighted the strategic collaboration between OpenAtom OpenHarmony and Eclipse Oniro, positioning Oniro as a...

The Eclipse SDV Working Group’s progress is reflected not only in the growing number of member companies and projects, but also in the community’s deepening engagement.

Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege of expanding my open source developer advocacy to include countries in the Global South — Brazil last year, and Nigeria this year. What struck me during these trips is that a country lagging behind wealthier, industrialised economies doesn’t mean being left...

Eclipse Collections is a wonderful library for Java developers that provides a rich… uh… collection (set? list? bag?) of data structures and algorithms that will serve your every need. Eclipse Collections offers alternatives to the standard Java Collections Framework with a focus on memory efficiency and speed; using Eclipse Collections...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was in Norway for JavaZone 2025 where I presented the talk titled The Past, the Present, and the Future of Enterprise Java. I have done this talk a couple of times, and even if the overall...

It’s been three years since last time I spoke at JavaZone, so it was very good to be back this year. The usual venue in downtown Oslo is under renovation, so the entire conference had relocated to Lillestrøm. It is just a 10 minute train ride north of Oslo, so...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the honour of representing the Eclipse Foundation at OSCAFest 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria, where I spoke at the Women in Open Source Brunch on August 16, 2025. This was not only my first public presentation, but also a milestone moment: the first time...