Extension marketplaces have quietly become one of the most strategic control points in modern developer tooling. As editors and IDEs evolve into platforms, and as AI systems increasingly orchestrate development workflows, the registry behind those extensions is no longer a secondary service. It is infrastructure. Over the past weeks, we...
Open Community Experience (OCX) brings together developers, industry leaders, researchers, and open source communities to explore how open technologies are shaping the future of software and digital infrastructure. Taking place 21–23 April 2026 in Brussels , OCX provides a space for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and discussion across domains such as...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was at JavaLand 2066. It was my eleventh time at this conference. This year, it was back in a theme park again with almost 1500 attendees registered. Next week, I will go to California for...
JavaLand 2026 was finally back in the theme park after the last two year’s disaster at a car racing track. And this was good. Europa Park is different from Phantasialand, but has the same kitchy, German way of going all in being true to the theme. From the African and...
Project leads have the ability to retire committers: this is a power that must be used responsibly. The most common reason to retire a committer is extended inactivity. Inactive committers can be a liability, for example: A long list of committers can give a false sense of viability (if a...
I can’t believe this was the ninth time I was a speaker at Devnexus. The last couple of years, we have sponsored and had a dedicated Jakarta EE track and the entire team present, so it was a bit different to be handling the booth as the only one from...
A lot has been written about AI in software development. Much of it focuses on what the technology can do, or what teams have already built with it. What is discussed less often is how teams responsible for widely used systems can introduce these tools carefully. This post looks at...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Right now, I am on my way home from Devnexus 2026. It was as busy as always, so I haven’t been able to finish up my post from the event, but I promise that it will be out...
Many of the most influential open source projects begin in academic environments. Universities and higher education institutions are well suited to experimentation and have been central to open source for decades. Yet, as open source increasingly behaves like infrastructure, a recurring challenge appears once projects move beyond their original research...
Many discussions about open source AI agents start with the same image: a single assistant responding to prompts. That model works well for demonstrations, but it breaks down quickly in production. One of our speakers for the AI track at OCX 26, Luca Bianchi, explained in an interview, “a production...