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The fourth stop on our North America JUG Tour 2023 was Omaha and Omaha Java User Group. By now, we’re starting to get the hang of it. Gerrit started off with his talk about vulnerabilities in Java and the build chain in general. An important topic that just becomes more...

The third stop on the North America JUG Tour 2023 was Detroit and the Detroit Java User Group. Gerrit did the Jungle talk about all the available distributions of OpenJDK. It is a talk you really should attend if he is at a conference near you and you are wondering...

The second stop of the North America JUG Tour 2023 was Garden State JUG in New Jersey. Gerrit first did a talk about navigating the JVM landscape. Then I did a talk about Jakarta EE 10 where I introduced two brand new demos. One was using preview features of Java...

The results of the 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey are now available! For the sixth year in a row, we’ve reached out to the enterprise Java community to ask about their preferences and priorities for cloud native Java architectures, technologies, and tools, their perceptions of the cloud native application industry...

The first stop on the North America JUG Tour 2023 was Columbus where we visited the Central Ohio Java User Group. The meetup was hosted at the office of Manifest Solutions and the turnout was around 30-40 people. I admit I didn’t count, but that’s the feeling. There were also...

I am happy to announce that Aurélie Caron has joined the Eclipse Foundation as the Senior Manager, Event Operations and Strategy. In this role, Aurélie will lead the Eclipse Foundation’s Events team to plan and execute virtual, hybrid and in-person event experiences for our global community of committers, contributors, users...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It has been a busy week for me. First, I went to Las Vegas for IBM TechXchange 2023. Less than two hours after my talk ended, my flight took off for New York and the JCP Executive Committee Face-to-Face...

The Java Community Process (JCP) was founded in New York 25 years ago, so it only made sense to kick off the 25-year anniversary celebrations when the JCP Executive Committee (JCP EC) met in New York. The JCP EC had its second face-to-face meeting of 2023 in New York this...

Today, the Eclipse Foundation released the results of our security audit for Eclipse JKube , a collection of tools for building Java applications that can be deployed to a cloud environment. Findings from the audit have been addressed in the 1.13 release leading to a new feature. This audit included...

The inaugural IBM TechXchange occurred at MGM Grand in Las Vegas from September 11 to September 14 with a respectable attendee count of somewhere around 3000. I was invited to speak there and did a talk with Emily as a co-speaker. It would be an exaggeration to claim that the...