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Devoxx Poland is a great conference! The venue is located near Kraków city center within walking distance of most hotels and restaurants. With almost 3000 participants, even the large ICE Kraków Congress Centre gets crowded. But with the warm sunny weather and ice cream served outside, that was never an...

From all of us at the Eclipse Foundation, we’d like to wish the LGBTQ+ community a happy Pride Month. As June winds down, we’d like to recognize the Eclipse Community’s continuing efforts to foster an open and welcoming environment for everyone.  Our Community Code of Conduct outlines the standards of...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and thirty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I was back in Kraków for Devoxx Poland. I have been to most Devoxx conferences before, but this was my first visit to Devoxx Poland. It is a great conference at the modern Kraków Congress Center...

Open source software is the single most important engine for innovation today. The ability to freely combine software components, frameworks, and platforms frees developers from constantly reinventing the wheel and allows them to focus on the new innovations that users want. Free software also enables business models to scale in...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference season continues. I represented Jakarta EE this week at the We Are Developers World Congress in Berlin. Next week, I am heading to Kraków and Devoxx Poland. But before that, I will be participating in Jakarta...

We Are Developers in Berlin is a massive event! It’s been a long time since I have been among so many people in one place. This would be considered a big crowd even by pre-pandemic standards. My talk Get Ready for Jakarta EE 10 was scheduled as one of the...

JNation is an awesome, community-focused conference located in beautiful Coimbra, Portugal! More than 800 attendees showed up for this one-day event. You can see a majority of them up on stage after the opening keynote in the image below. This time, I was accompanied by Tanja on stage. In our...

The work of the Jakarta EE specification developers is in its final stages. This release is getting quite a bit of attention, and the wider enterprise Java community was obviously waiting for this kind of progress for a very long time! Focusing the Jakarta EE 10 release plan and following...

The Eclipse Cloud DevTools contributor award this month goes to all parties which contributed to Eclipse Theia Blueprint: Arm, STMicroelectronics, EclipseSource and Ericsson. Theia Blueprint was released last year and been actively maintained with a new release every month since then. It's time to honor the efforts of those involved...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and twenty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The ballot for Jakarta Security 3.0 will conclude tomorrow. This means that all of the individual specifications that are a part of Jakarta EE 10 are approved! So when can we expect Jakarta EE 10 ( Platform, Web...